The next morning he again sent his brother-in-law to look for the piquy fruit, but he found only the charred foot. As they were facing each other seated, the mutilated man suddenly pushed the bone point of his leg toward his comrade in order to kill him, but the one attacked leapt up and fled to the village, where he told what had happened.
At night Tečware secretly entered the village and killed several men sleeping in the plaza. Then the others decided to do away with him. They painted and decorated a log from the trunk of a mamohy tree [which has very soft wood rich in sap] to simulate a man and put it in the plaza; a man hid behind it and talked in a loud voice. When Tečware again came at night and saw the log, he took it for a man, hurled himself upon it and hit it with his leg, but the bone point got stuck. When the others saw him captive, they went there and beat him to death.
They cut off his head and threw it aside, but he turned immediately into a Kra-grod-grod-re (the head of a rattle) and jumped away. However, he returned in full daylight, killing people by leaping at the nape of their necks. The warriors looked for the head in the woods. They were armed with clubs and cried: “Kra-grod-grod-re nemengahi'!” Then he immediately came jumping, but he was so fast that no blow could touch him. Then they first decided to set caltrops for him, but rejected the plan and instead dug a great many deep holes along and beside the road. Then they called him again, and when he came leaping he fell into one of the holes and could not get out any more. The warriors killed him and pulled him out, but recognizing that if they let him lie he would revive, they buried him in a deep pit.
After a long while the youths in the second initiation phase came past the spot and saw a tree that had grown out of the grave. It was a mangaba tree (Hancornia speciosa). They cut it with a stone knife and painted themselves with the rubber milk, then they made the first rubber balls for the peny-kra game [a native game somewhat resembling badminton] from the rubber strips on their bodies.