 Following the blood trail they came to a richly furnished peasant hut, whose owner was tending a wound in his leg.They gave up the chase and headed for the nearest village, where the locals told them that the peasant had been a "nahual" who could transform into a dog to steal riches.The Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas in Mexico say that a white dog mated with Eve in the Third Creation, producing Ladinos, while a yellow dog fathered the indigenous peoples.