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Translation (Lydia Seng)
Long ago, there was a village. A man and a woman were very much in love. The man was a businessman and often he went on a trip and did his business. After they got married, he told his wife to stay there and wait for him to come home. Long ago, people traded ivory and valuable things from the forests, so they must invest at least three years or more in business. One day, the married man returned home after a three-years business trip. When he arrived at the paddy just outside the village, he noticed smoke coming from the kitchen where people were cooking. Furthermore, there was the noise of dogs and pigs and also the sound of the people pounding grain as the village was so alive. He remembered when he was in the village, this area was completely covered by paddy fields. And then he asked a woman, "Sister, why are you living here?" "How come you no longer live in the village?" She answered, Oh... "There's something scary in the village." She didn't want to talk about his wife's death, but she mentioned something that: "Your wife is terrible." She didn't say his wife passed away. The man said sarcastically, "No matter what, she is a very good woman for me." "So, you go and see her," she said, then the man replied, "Of course I will go to her." Near sunset, the man passed the paddy field and saw his place from a distance. The dog, the pigs, and the gorgeous scenery of his village were all the same before he left his home. Surprised, he said, "What was this woman lying to me about? Everything was great and many people lived there. Ironically, she told me that people were afraid and that nobody dared live in the village, but now I saw something completely different." He thought people were out of their minds, and then he went home, and he saw that his wife appeared healthy and gained weight. She welcomed her husband and said, "It took you so long to get home." Then he said to his wife, "People told me that you were dead. How can it be? They were nuts." "It just didn't make any sense." At that moment, the sun went down slowly, and he saw many people walking that was changed his sight by his devil wife. So, when he saw everything was natural, like the houses, the people walking, the dogs and the pigs. But when the darkness slowly covered all the places, everything became quiet and started to ruin everything that he saw. It's been three years since he left his hometown, and now he's watched the smoke coming out of the kitchen where people cooked. The place was filled with the sound of animals, but slowly faded away as the darkness covered the whole village. In addition, his house alone was very pretty as he saw it before. When he entered the house, it suddenly transformed into a shabby house. Finally, he found out that the woman was evil, not his wife. And he figured, "Tonight I might die here." But he had an idea of pretending to drop his hat on the ground floor of his house. Then he asked his wife, "My dear, I'll pick up my hat, which fell on the ground floor." The wife said, "Don't worry, I'll take it for you." Then the devil pulled out her long hand to reach out to the hat and said, "Here your hat. Take it back." The man tried many things to escape, but the devils prevented all of his attempts. So, he realized that tonight he couldn't escape from that place and he abandoned all his plans. And so, he believed that the devil was about to eat him when more darkness came. When the darkness increased, the face of the devil deteriorated. He was terrified at the appearance of the devil's original face. The devil sat calmly and sewed garments. He went on to say to his wife, "I want to go to the bathroom to urinate." He figured she couldn't help him with that excuse. But the evil woman was using a sewing machine and said, "You can go urinate in front of the house." Furthermore, she said, "Take this needle, whose thread I hold." Then, he picked up the needle and left the house. The man decided, "I had to run from this terrified demonic woman." Then he stabbed the needle into the big wooden mortar and ran away. Later, the evil woman suspected that just urinating was so long that she came out to check for him. When she left out of the house, she discovered the needle and the thread she was holding just punched in the large wooden mortar. The evil women followed him and mumbled, "You said you loved me so much before and now you don't love me anymore." After he ran away, the man met two guys and hoped that they would help him out of that situation. The two men asked, "Why are you running so fast?" The man said, "My wife was already dead, but I wasn't aware of it, now she became the devil and she wouldn't let me go." The two men said, "People are already informing you that your wife has passed away." Yes, I was told, but when I watched the village, it was the same before. Both men said, "The devil changed your view, which is why you saw it that way." The devil did not fear the two men and followed him. So, the two men said, "We can't help you, we're afraid of that kind of demon as well." The man kept running. The devil also kept following and said, "You loved me before, now you no longer loved me." As a matter of fact, the man thought the devil was his real wife, but she wasn't and the devil pretended to be his wife. Then she stretched out her hand to the man who was running and ate him.
Transcription (Lu Hkawng)
Moi shawng de mare langai mi nga ai da. Grai dai num sha hte la sha gaw grai tsawra hkat ai da. Grai tsawra hkat na shan 2 hkungran ai da, hkungran re shaloi la wa gaw hpaga la re na hku nga, hpaga grai hkawm ai la rai re she, hkungran ngut ai hpang she madu jan hpe gaw nang i n dai kaw naw nga taw yaw. Ngai na hpaga lam dai ngut, moi prat gaw moi na ni gaw magwi kawng ni i nam na arung arai ni hte hpaga ga ai re da, moi na ni hpaga ga hkawm yang grai na ai da, hpaga ga sa mat wa ai n law htum 3 ning dai hku hpaga ga, nta she nwa hkra rai hpaga ga hkawm re shaloi she lani mi gaw shi gaw 3 ning ngu ai shaning hta shi gaw nta de wa sai da. Mare de wa re shaloi she moi yiwa kaw she shi wa yang mare re ndu shi re shara yi wa kaw she wanhkut she mawng gwi e wa e nyak e nyawk e she nga mamhtu she dun re nga ai she. Shi gaw dai mare kaw sa san ai da, moi gaw shi naw nga ai ten hta gaw yi ginwang re da. Shi gaw sa san re e hkri ni e hpa na nanhte gaw ndai de wa nga mat ai ma. Mare de hpa rai nnga ma ai ta? e mare de gaw grai hkrit ra ai gaw ngu tsun ai da. Retim shi gaw shi madu jan si ai ngu na n kam tsun dan ai le i, langai mi gaw tsun ai da law, na madu jan gaw na madu jan grai n kaja ai re lo ngu tsun dat ai da. Si ai ngu n tsun ai da law, dai hku ngu tsun rai she, e kaning ma rai ta e grai myitsu ai re le ngu tsun ai da. She wa yu u le ngu tsun ai da, dai she wa yu na re nga le ngu wa re she, nta kaw dai yi ginwang kaw na lai mat wa she shi gaw jan kachyi mi naw nga yang du wa yang she oh kaw yu yang she gwi e wa e moi na shi naw le yang na mare wa she grai alum akum re nga taw nga ai da. Dai hku nga taw nga she kei mi na ni ngai hpe masu su ai wa deng ning ngan re a lum a kum re she naw nga ai wa, mare masha grai jat wa na hku re nga ngu shi dai hku ningre na alum akum re nga ai hpe ngai hpe wa she mare de kadai nnga sai nga masu ai. Mi na ni gaw mana she re ngu na shi gaw dai hku myit da, dai hku myit da, du wa yang madu jan mung a hpum a sau sha hkap tau la, grai na mat sai hpa nyar nga na shi gaw hkap tau la re yang manya nang hpe wa she si mat sai lo nga n kau nu gaw tsun ai da le. Dai she oh ra ni gaw che majoi tsun nga ai nmu i, ngu tsun ai da, dai hku ngu tsun re she kaja wa she jan du wa sai da, jan du wa re yang she shi gaw jan du wa yang she ndai mi gaw grai nga ai masha ni le i shi na myi hpe le le kau ya ai le n dai nat num wa gaw. Nat num wa gaw myi le le kau ya ai re nga, masha grai law nga gwi e wa e moi na hku raw re dai hpe mu lu ai she jan du magang mare dai wa katsi magang, jan du magang mare katsi magang yu dat yang wa she mare ni wa yawng nta ni mung yawng hten ma sai le i. Shaning 3 ning nga yang gaw nloi sai gaw, ga deng mi ngai shang wa yang mung wanhkut she mawng re na gwi e wa e grai she pyaw na wa ya jan du magang katsi re wa gwi mung n nga, wa mung n nga, shanhte nta dai 1 sha shi shang ai nta mi gaw grai tsawm ai nta moi shi mu tawn da ai nta nre i, dai wa shi bai wa yu yang nta nyawp nyawp bai re mat da. Nyawp nyawp bai rai ga a kaja wa num ndai gaw nat re nga teng sai ngai gaw dai na gaw katut sha sai ngu she shi gaw shi na shi gup ai gachyawp hte she ning di di hkrat masu su ai da, dai she i nye dinggai jan e ngai gachyawp naw sa hta la na yaw, hpa hkum hta la ngai hta ya na, ngai hta ya na ngu tsun na she shi gaw ta gaw galu law re hte hta ya she maw ngu na bai jaw ai da, bai amyu myu galaw dan ai da law, shi gaw nyan marai grai htuk re she hpang jahtum shi gara hku htuk ai i nga yang she ngai gara hku tim dai na gaw ndai kaw na lu lawt na nre sai n dai num wa ngai hpe jan du ai hte gaw sha kau na re shi gaw nat she re ngu na shi gaw dai hku myit la ai da. Shi myit la she kaja wa she num ndai wa jan du magang she shi a n sam ni hten wa ai le i, shi gaw nat re nga yang gaw n sam ni hten wa n tsawm wa rai hkrit sai da. Hkrit na she rai chyoi taw ai da, dai num gaw a sumnum rai na rai chyoi taw re she e nye madu jan e ngai gaw ya shinggan grai pru mayu ai le, jit grai ji mayu ai ngu tsun ai da, dai she shinggan pru ai gaw shi n mai sa pru ya nga gaw i, dai nga she e e mai le ai maji ai n daw kaw sa ji u ngu tsun ai, retim maw ndai naw la mat u ngu num jan gaw ri hte jak rai chyoi taw she ri gaw shi jum da, ndai samyit gaw shi lang lang mat re na she shinggan pru na matu le mat wa ai da. Le mat wa re shaloi she num ndai hpe gaw hprawng nan hprawng kau da ra sai, n mai sai , hkrit nan re num she re nga ngu di shi gaw dai shi lang mat ai ndai samyit hpe she n dai htum kaw chyawp di kau da da, htum kaw chyawp di kau da na she num jan gaw i aw ya grai naw ra shi nga ai grai naw naw nga nga ai, jit ji gaw grai na ai le ngu na shi gaw le wa yu na hku nga. Le wa yu yang she shi a ri wa mi shi na samyit wa mi hto htum kaw sa a chyaw da ya ai da. Nang i moi gaw ra i ya gaw nra i, moi gaw ra i ya gaw n ra i ngu na shi gaw hkan na hku nga, hkan re shaloi she shi gaw (arko) lu kun ngu i manang 2 hte hkrum ai da. Oh ra la wa gaw gat hprawng ai lu, hpa na dai ram lagat nga n dai ngu she oh ra manang 2 gaw, hka deng nye madu jan si mat ai re hka, ngai gaw nchye ai le deng, deng nang hpe masha ni ntsun dan ai i mi yet, tsun gaw tsun dan ai, retim ngai wa yu yang mare wa mi na raw re taw nga ai, nang hpe myi le le kau ya ai re nga ngu tsun ai da. Retim mung dai ni hpe mung n hkrit ai da yaw, i anhte gaw n lu hkye ai, nang hpe i grai hkrit ra ai dingre ni gaw ngu tsun na she. Kei la dai gaw kagat ai da lu, lagat lagat lagat, moi gaw ra i ya gaw nra i, moi gaw ra i, ya gaw nra i nga na shachyut ai da. Shachyut na dai nat wa shi madu jan ngu na dai wa madu jan ma nre kaja wa nga yang, (yaungsaung) ai le i, kaja wa sa rim sha kau ai da, dai la dai hpe rim sha kau ai da. |
