When the moon is full and has "a ring around," she is dancing on her patio.

At the period of the dark moon she is dead, but will return after three days.

Eclipses are explained as collisions between the sun and the moon on the road, when they fight.
The Tarahumare men make bows and arrows, and in the central part of the country are great hunters and clever at shooting.

The fore-shaft of their arrows is made of palo hediondo, a wood used also in the making of needles.

But the people living near the pueblo of Panalachic and the Barranca de Cobre are poor shots, and their favourite weapon is the axe.