polecats

Eremija 4

14 (a) tò ìmame drùgi živòtni nìe kàzvad gi pòrove

We have [these] other animals. People call them polecats.

16 (a) nòšno vre vèčer kato vèče si se prìbera

[They come at] night – , in the evening when I come home.

17 (a) zàtvora si vratàta i kato ìzgasa làmbata i òn se prefṛ̀li

I close the gate, and when I turn out the light, it hurls itself

18 (a) tùka prez vratàta i če si se issère ìli tùka

here over the gate, and it’ll do a good shit either here

19 (a) ìli tùka da mòga da go vìda če e minàl

or here –so that I can see that it’s been by.

20 (a) dà kokòška pìle jajcè à gi ne pribrà

Yes. Hens, chicks, eggs – If I didn’t secure them away

21 (a) à gi ne namerì kràj

and it found them – [it’s] curtains [for them]!

22 (GK) i idnò vrème pàk ìmaše li takìva pòrove

Did there used to be such polecats in the old days?

23 (a) pa imàlo e imàlo ama kòj gi e zabeleževàl

There were! There were! But who ever cared about them?

24 (GK) à ne sɤ̀ gi kato zème edìn

But didn’t – ? if [someone] caught one – ?

25 (a) togà sme čuvàli pò nògu stòka pò nògu

Back then we kept more livestock, more [than now].

26 (a) segà po pet šes kukòški pògledni segà tàa a nèma

But now [just] five or six chickens each. Look around now, and it’s not here.

27 (a) nàmeri kogà krìlo nèkade nòga nèkade tovà elì zakòle a

Find sometimes a wing here, a leg there – either it’s killed [and eaten] it

28 (a) ispìe i kṛftà i a ostàvi cèlatə̥ a kṛftà ispìe

it and drunk its blood, or it’s left it whole, and [just] drunk the blood.

29 (GK) brè

You don’t say!

30 (a) dà nògu lòšu živòtno

Yes. A very bad animal.

31 (GK) tò kato vampìrin tovà

It’s like a vampire, then.

32 (a) mnògo ama e čèrno ama e čèrno ama e čèrno

Very [bad]. And it’s black – and it’s black – and it’s black!

33 (a) tè takà e čèrno kato go poglèdneš ləštì

So black that when you look at it, it shimmers.

34 (a) nògu mu bilà skɤ̀pa kòžata kòj kakò gu ubìe nèkoe

Its hide is supposedly very valuable – anyone who kills one

35 (a) fednàga go odère i mu prudàva kòžata

skins it immediately and sells its hide.

36 (GK) ne gì li lov'àxa ednò vrème tìja

Didn’t they hunt them in the old days, these – ?

37 (a) kədè če go fàneš onò nòšno vrème

Well, how are you going to catch one?! It’s nocturnal!

39 (a) nòšno vrème denèska nè

[It comes out] at night, not [during] the day.

40 (GK) kapàn nèšto

[Couldn’t you use] some sort of trap?

41 (a) kòj če mu i da tùriš kapàn ne gò znàeš

Who’ll [get] him [like that]? Even if you lay a trap, you don’t know

42 (a) kadè da o če mìne sèkade mìne

where it’ll pass by. It goes everywhere!

43 (GK) tè tùka kat dòjde da sère i pùf

So it just comes, and shits, and poof!

44 (a) a kòj če go jà dodèka de stàna òn

Ah, who will – By the time I get up, it –

45 (a) è go kačùva si se u dṛvòto kačùva si se

See, it climbs up a tree. It climbs up

46 (a) i po čeremìdite kačùva si se sèkade

roof tiles, too. It climbs up everywhere!

47 (GK) po čeremìdite se katèri tòa

This [thing] climbs up roof tiles?

48 (a) dà katèri se katèri se è tàa visòkata kɤ̀šta

Yes! It climbs! It climbs! [You see] that tall house there?

49 (a) tè tàm sme gi gledàli tè tè tàm po

We saw them over there. There, over –

50 (a) u cṛnìcata po cṛnìcata na čeremìdite dà živòtno

up the mulberry, up the mulberry, and onto the roof tiles. Yes. A beast.

51 (GK) brè

Goodness!

52 (a) živòtno ednì gi vìkat pa bèlki pòro što è

A beast. [There’s] some others they call martens. The one that’s a polecat –

53 (a) òn e čìsto čèren bèlkata e tùka e bèla

it is pure black. The marten is white, here –

55 (a) tùka kor ə šìjata tùka i nadzàde bèlo

Here on the sto - on the throat here, and in back it’s white.

57 (a) i vìkaja bèlka onà bilà pò lòša

And they call it a marten. It’s supposed to be worse.

58 (GK) a na gərbò

And on its back?

59 (a) gṛbò čèrna kafèna

On its back it’s black. Brown.

61 (a) i čèrni i kafèni

Both black and brown.

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Eremija 4