Comment
The content of this text was recorded in Russian by Ljudmila Zhukova from one of the residents of the village Nelemnoe. In 1990 it was translated into Yukaghir by
Vasilij Shalugin.
Translation
(39-1) The good shamans were called white.
(39-2) The evil shamans were called black.
(39-3) In the olden days black shamans were said to eat people.
(39-4) A good shaman can do everything.
(39-5) My grandfather was a shaman.
(39-6) People used to come and say to him: "Grandfather, we want to drink tea.
(39-7) Please help us."
(39-8) Then my grandfather would say: "You are calling me to sin again."
(39-9) Then the young people said: "Grandfather, do it, do it."
(39-10) He lived three hundred kilometres from here.
(39-11) He had a small board to cut the tobacco roots and small leaves on it.
(39-12) He used to hit that desk three times.
(39-13) When he hit it the third time, tea and tobacco started falling there.
(39-14) The rich Yakuts lived forty kilometres from the land where they lived.
(39-15) He stole things from them and mad them fly.
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