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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
(42-1) Once I was going to spend a night in Old Nelemnoe.
(42-2) We were mowing the grass and it started raining.
(42-3) I got all wet.
(42-4) I entered a house, but there was no oven in the house.
(42-5) I lay down, listening to the noises and songs I heard from outside.
(42-6) I thought: "Is this the people who mow the grass coming? Why can I hear singing?"
(42-7) I fell asleep and was dreaming. While I lay there sleeping, somebody took me and threw me down from the bed to the floor.
(42-8) I woke up and saw that I was lying on the floor.
(42-9) I started thinking about who had thrown me onto the floor.
(42-10) I thought that I had jumped down from the bed in my sleep.
(42-11) I lay down again.
(42-12) As soon as I got to sleep, somebody threw me down onto the floor.
(42-13) It hurt.
(42-14) There was no way I could get to sleep.
(42-15) I was trembling from fear with my heart beating fast.
(42-16) I hardly survived until morning.
(42-17) I went out of the house backwards.
(42-18) I ran away when it was still dark.
(42-19) I sat in the boat. It was raining.
(42-20) Many people escaped from there.
(42-21) One man brought twelve dogs and lit a fire.
(42-22) He was thrown out of the bed three times. They didn't let him sleep.
(42-23) Soon after that he died.
(42-24) That house was called the ghost house.
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