From Cuentos Populares en Chile (Chilean Folktales) – by Ramón A. Laval
Part 1 – Magnificent Stories, Stories of Animals, Anecdotes (Cuentos maravillosos, Cuentos de animales, Anécdotas)
034. The Tale of the Three Dead Men (El Cuento De Los Tres Difuntos)
They once found three men [recently] murdered, and they looked to be foreigners. They didn’t find anything on their bodies to identify their identities; but on performing the autopsy, they discovered a noodle in the intestines of one, from which they deduced he was Italian; in the intestines of another they discovered one bean, and so it was taken as an obvious sign that the man was Chilean; in the intestines of the third they did not find anything, but from his speech they came to understand that he was German.
[Nguyen: I’m not really sure if there’s an inside joke about the third one being German? The original text is “en los del tercero no encontraron nada, pero por el habla vinieron a comprender que era alemán.” I’m not sure how one can speak after one’s dead?]