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Translation (Rita Seng Mai & Keita Kurabe)
The story I am telling now is about a man who fell in love with a spirit. Once upon a time, there was a man who worked in the field. He usually went back home from the field at dawn. One day, he met a girl on the way back home. She was very beautiful. He fell in love with her. He fell for her. He fell in love with her and Every time he went to work in the field he always hung out with her at night. He always met her without a break. His parents asked him he did not answer. "Where do you go every night?" He did not answer. When his parents asked him he did not answer. So his parents went to a fortune-teller to ask about him. When they asked him, the fortune-teller said, "Your son is in love with a spirit!" Hearing this, his parents said to their son, "My son, your lover is a spirit!" "Don't meet her again!" But he did not believe it. He did not believe it and he continued to see her. He met her every night. The parents said "Don't go to see her!" but he did not stop. So one night his parents said, "My son, when you are going to meet her" "take this thread!" "Tie it to her little finger without letting her know!" They said to him. Then, he took that thread and went to the girl. When he went to see her, without letting her know, he tied the thread to her little finger. She did not realize that. Thus, as before, they met that night. After that, they went home. Then, the next day The son and his parents investigated where the thread continued from where the two met. They went to the place where the thread ended. The thread continued to a tomb. The son was very surprised. "Oh, it was a spirit that I saw every night!" He was scared. Like this story, young men in the past sometimes fell in love with spirit girls. This is how people in the past told it. Thank you very much.
Transcription (La Ring)
Ya hkai dan na maumwi gaw "Sa wa num hte sumtsaw tsaw ai lam" re. Moi shawng de la kasha langai mi gaw shana du yang she yi de na wa wa re ai da. Dai hku galoi mung jan du na yi kaw na wa rai jang she lana mi hta gaw shi wa ai lam kaw she num sha langai mi hte hkrum ai da. Dai num sha wa gaw grai tsawm ai da. Dai majaw shi mung mu ai kaw na dai num hpe grai ra mat ai da. Dai num sha hpe wa shi grai ra mat ai hku rai nga. Num sha dai hpe grai ra mat yang she shi gaw shi bungli yi sa rai na shana de rai jang gaw dai num sha hte nga hkawm mat mat re ai da. N dum n dam n grin n grang she rai hkra dai num sha hte nga hkawm mat mat re na hku rai nga. Dai shaloi she kanu ni san yu ti mung n tsun dan hkraw ai da. "Shana de nang gara de mat ai i?" ngu san tim n tsun dan hkraw ai da. Dai hku kanu ni nta masha ni san tim n tsun dan hkraw rai yang she shanhte kanu ni nta masha ni gaw mawn wawt san yu ma ai da. Dai hku mawn wawt san yu rai jang she "Na kasha gaw nat num hte sumtsaw tsaw taw ai she re gaw," ngu na tsun dan ai da. Dai shaloi she kanu ni mung tsun ai da. "Ma e, nang ra ai gaw nat num she re da law." "Dai nat num hte gaw hkum sa hkrum sanu law," ngu tsun ai da. Dai la sha wa mung kanu ni tsun ai hpe bai rai yang gaw n kam ai da. N kam na she galoi mung dai num hpe gaw naw sha sa jahkrum hkrum re ai da. Dai hku sa jahkrum rai na "Hkum sa jahkrum," ngu mung n mai hkum pat rai yang she lana mi na nhtoi hta gaw kanu ni gaw tsun ai da. "Nang dai na na dai nat num kasha hpe sa jahkrum na rai yang gaw" "ndai ri hkaw la sa mat wa u." "Ndai ri hkaw hpe dai na num sha na yung hkyi kaw shi n chye hkra gyit dat ya u," ngu htet dat ai da. Kaja sha num sha dai hte shana de gaw sa jahkrum sai da. Dai la kasha wa mung sa jahkrum rai na she num sha dai n chye hkra shi mung dai num sha na yung hkyi kaw she ri hpe gyit dat ya ai da. Num sha dai mung gyit dat ai hpe gaw n chye dat ai da. Dai hku na she dai shana gaw shawoi na zawn sha hkrum ngut yang gaw num sha dai wa mat, la kasha dai mung nta de wa sai da. Shing rai na she hpang shani rai jang she kanu ni kanau ni yawng gaw myi shan yan hkrum ai shara kaw na she ri hkaw hpe she gara de wa htum ai kun ngu di na dai ri nhkaw htum ai shara de hkan yu yang gaw dai ri wa hto lup wa kaw du taw nga ai da. Dai shaloi she dai la kasha wa gaw grai kajawng mat na she "Aw shi shana de rai jang gaw ndai nat sa wa num hte she sumtsaw tsaw a hka," ngu na she grai kajawng htap lap hkrit mat ai da. Dan re ndai nat sa wa ni hte moi na shabrang la kasha ni sumtsaw tsaw chye ai lam hpe moi na masha kaba ni ndai hku hkai dan ai re law. Yawng hpe grai chyeju kaba sai.
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