Someone Who Saw a Little Person
Start Time | Passamaquoddy-Maliseet | English |
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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. |
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Capture Date
2010-11-22
Video Length
01:58
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