Someone Who Saw a Little Person

Start Time	Passamaquoddy-Maliseet	English
00:02	kwewitahatomon tan ci wen, iyey...	do you remember when
00:05	Sakhiye-oc, iya,	Grampy would come in
00:07	Muhmum naka 'titomon,	and say,
00:08	"Nutuwa welaqik, iya,	"Last night I heard
00:11	sqewtomuhs	the hag
00:15	kosona mihkomuwehs?"	or a little person"?
00:16	No, mihkomuwehs wen nemiyat --	No, when you see a little person --
00:17	Sqewtomuhs.	The crying hag.
00:18	Nemiyat wen...	When you see it...
00:19	Kotuwine.	Someone is going to die.
00:20	Wen ketuwinet.	- Someone is going to die.
00:21	Sqewtomuhs not aliyat, ihik...	That was the hag...
00:23	... yalotemit.	... crying.
00:24	Yalotemit, ihik, sitomok.	Crying along the shore.
00:25	Iya, sitomok.	Yes, down on the shore.
00:27	Well, sakhiyat, iyey...	Well, he came over and...
00:29	Elomi-kseskossok.	Gleason's Cove.
00:31	- Elomi-kseskossok	It came in from
00:32	sakhiyat yut, iya...	Gleason's Cove...
00:34	Naka nil mecimi tan ci nit itok,	And whenever he said that,
00:36	nit-tehc tan-oc ntolomolsin.	I would get an eerie feeling.
00:38	Mm-hmm.	Mm-hmm.
00:39	Nit-te-na nmamam.	It was the same way with Mom.
00:43	Mecimiw wikit nemaht, ihik...	When she was living at my house,
00:47	on-oc weckuwi-kapuwit sinkok, itom,	she'd be standing by the sink, and she'd say,
00:50	"Koti wen mehcine."	"Someone is going to die."
00:52	"U, Mam, ehqi nit itomun."	"Oh, Mom, don't say that."
00:54	Itom, "Cu."	She said, "It's true."
00:55	Itom "Nit-te nwewomols."	She said, "I can feel it."
00:58	And two days later-oc wen mehcinan.	And two days later someone died.
01:01	Mecimiw eci-siktehpawolit tan ci nit itok.	It always scared me when she said that.
01:05	Mecimi-te kilun, iyey,	That's what,
01:10	I guess eli-wolamsotomuhtihiq.	I guess, we always believed.
01:16	Ma wen piluwey nit 'toli-wolamsotomuwon.	Some people don't believe in it.
01:18	Nama.	No.
01:19	No, ma tokec.	No, not now.
01:20	Ma tokec.	Not now.
01:22	I guess ma nkocicihtuwon tan ntoliwihtomon wen...	I guess I don't know how to say...
01:27	Cilomotoma.	You see or hear spirits.
01:27	- Cilomotoma.	- You see or hear spirits.
01:28	Cilomotoma wen.	That's when you see or hear spirits.
01:29	Cilomotoma.	You see or hear spirits.
01:30	Iya.	Yes.
01:30	Iya, that's it.	Yes, that's it.
01:31	Cilomotoma wen.	You see or hear spirits.
01:32	Iya.	Yes.
01:34	Nit-tehc, iyey...Nakahc ntiyan Mamam,	And I would tell Mom,
01:36	"U, ehqi nit itom."	"Oh, Mom, don't say that."
01:38	Ecihc... 'sami nsiktehpawoloq	Because I got scared
01:40	tan ci nit itok.	when she'd say that.
01:43	But nit kilun eli-wolamsotomuhtihiq.	But that is what we believed.
01:45	Kat-olu, nit-te-na mecimi-te nit leyu.	That's right; and it's always true.
01:47	Mec-ote nit leyu ehtahs,	It's still true,
01:49	kosona wen kuspawoloq	or sometimes they keep you up
01:50	nipayiw wen ketuwinet.	at night when someone's going to die.
01:51	Kat-olu.	That's right.
01:53	Nit kilun...	We...
01:55	I guess nit eli-macekultihiq.	I guess that's how we were brought up.
01:56	Iya, iya.	Yes, yes.