Mamie Offield: "The Devil and the Girl" (1957)

Primary participants: Mamie Offield (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-64
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 276-277, Text 64
Additional contributor: Shane Bilowitz (annotator)

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[1]	áxak	kustáaras	kunpâakuhitih
	two	sister	they.were.picking.acorns

Two sisters were picking acorns.

[2]	kári	xás	yítha	upiip	chími	kanipvâarami
	then	then	one	she.said	soon	let.me.go.back.home

And one said, "Let me go back home!

[3]	kánpaatishrihi	káakum	paxúrish
	let.me.carry.them	some	the.shelled.acorns

Let me load up some of the shelled acorns!

[4]	chími	iim	ôok	vúra	ikrii	ikrûuntihi	paxúrish
	soon	2sg.	here	Intensive	you.stay	you.wait.for	the.shelled.acorns

You stay here, wait for the (rest of the) shelled acorns!"

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[5]	kári	xás	uxus	tá	ná'aathva	kip	nusúmahtih
	then	then	she.thought	PERF	I'm.afraid	just	we.are.detecting.a.sound

And (the one who remained) thought, "I'm afraid; we've been hearing some noise."

[6]	kári	xás	uxus	tîi	sáruk	kanvâarami	impaak
	then	then	she.thought	let...	downhill	let.me.go	on.the.path

And she thought, "Let me go downhill on the path!"

[7]	kári	xás	unhíshriihva	koovúra	pa'ûumukich	pa'áthiith	impaak	unhíshriihva
	then	then	she.tied.down	all	nearby	the.hazel.branches	on.the.path	she.tied.down

And she tied all the hazel branches nearby, she tied them across the path.

[8]	kári	xás	u'íipma	pookrîirak
	then	then	she.returned	to.where.she.stayed

Then she went back where she was staying.

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[9]	kári	xás	uxus	tîi	kantharampûuki
	then	then	she.thought	let...	let.me.cook.acorn.soup

And she thought, "Let me cook acorn soup!"

[10]	kári	xás	taay	vúra	utharámpuk
	then	then	much	Intensive	she.made.acorn.soup

So she made a lot of acorn soup.

[11]	kíri	kunxús	taayvávan	panu'áraarahitih
	I.wish	let.them.think	many.people	we.are.many.people

"Let them think we are a lot of people!"

[12]	kári	xás	a'	uvôoruraa	iyvôoruraa
	then	then	above	she.crawled.up	woodpile

Then she crawled up onto the woodpile.

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[13]	kári	xás	ikxáram	axmáy	uthítiv	axmáy	uvôonfuruk	pa'apurúvaan
	then	then	night	suddenly	she.heard	suddenly	he.entered.the.house	the.devil

Then in the night suddenly she heard it, suddenly the devil came in.

[14]	kári	xás	upiip	ishávaasich	hôoy	áta	uvâaramaheen
	then	then	he.said	little.niece	where	maybe	she.went

And he said, "I wonder where little niece has gone?

[15]	íf	ta	naxuniháyaachha
	truly	PERF	I.am.hungry

I'm really hungry!

[16]	matêe	kaniptôori	panini'ápuroon
	later	let.me.count	my.charms

Let me count my charms for a moment!"

[17]	kári	xás	uyáariipva	pamu'ápuroon
	then	then	he.took.them.out	his.charms

So he took out his charms.

[18]	páy	uum	pakumá'ii	axvâak	ukúheesh
	this	3.SG	because.of	in.his.head	it.will.hurt

"This one is so that (a person) will have a headache.

[19]	páy	uum	pakumá'ii	pavishváan	ukúheesh
	this	3.SG	because.of	his.stomach	it.will.hurt

This one will give him a stomach-ache."

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[20]	chavúra	utooríshriihva	pookupakúhaheesh
	finally	he.finished.counting	how.he.will.make.(a.person).sick

Finally he finished counting what he would make (a person) sick with.

[21]	xás	upiyaaráamnihva
	then	he.put.them.back.into.(a.bag)

And he put them back in (a bag).

[22]	xás	upiip	tîi	kánpaatvan
	then	he.said	let...	let.me.bathe

And he said, "Let me go bathe!"

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[23]	kári	xás	uskákuni	pa'asiktávaan
	then	then	she.jumped.down	the.woman

Then the woman jumped down.

[24]	kári	xás	u'êechip	pa'apuroonpûuvish
	then	then	she.picked.up	the.charm-bag

And she picked up the charm-bag.

[25]	kári	xás	úkvip
	then	then	she.ran

And she ran.

[26]	váa	kúuk	ukvíripma	pa'ípa	unhíshriihvat	pa'áthiith
	so	to.there	she.ran.toward	Where.recent.past	she.tied.down	the.hazel.branches

She ran there where she had tied the hazel branches.

[27]	xás	súrukam	u'arihrûuprihva
	then	under	she.jumped.through.them

And she ducked underneath them.

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[28]	kári	xás	pa'apurúvaan	upvôonfuruk
	then	then	the.devil	he.came.back.into.the.house

Then the devil came back in the house.

[29]	kári	xás	upiip	nani'ápuroon	tá	na'êetheep
	then	then	he.said	my.charms	PERF	she.has.taken.from.me

And he said, "She's taken away my charms!"

[30]	kári	xás	u'áharam
	then	then	he.chased.her

And he chased her.

[31]	púyava	patóo	kvíripuni	pa'áthiith	tóo	kuuyva	mâam	xás	tupikyívish
	you.see	when.he.had	he.ran.downhill	the.hazel.branches	he.had	strike	uphill	then	he.fell.back.down

And when he ran downhill, he hit the hazel branches, and he fell back to the ground uphill.

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[32]	púyava	kári	xás	u'íipma	pa'asiktávaan
	you.see	then	then	she.returned	the.woman

Then the woman arrived back at her home.

[33]	kári	xás	upiip	áp	ná'aathvat	víri	tá	ni'ípak
	then	then	he.said	PAST	I.was.afraid	so	PERF	I.came.back

And she said, "I was afraid, so I came back."

(Bright: "ip, the adverb marking recent-past time, here occurs in the variant form ap, which has been recorded nowhere else. It is perhaps relevant that Yurok has a word ap, indicating past time.")

[34]	káruma	uum	yiimúsich	tu'íshunvaheen	pa'ápuroon
	in.fact	3.SG	little.ways.off	she.had.hidden	the.charms

The fact was, she had hidden the charms some distance away.

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[35]	púyava	vúra	tá	xára	kári	xás	pa'apurúvaan	umah
	you.see	Intensive	PERF	long.time	then	then	the.devil	he.found.her

So after a long time, then the devil found her.

[36]	kári	xás	upiip	chími	neepthárihi	panani'ápuroon
	then	then	he.said	soon	give.me.back	my.charms

And he said, "Give me back my charms!

[37]	mímik	koovúra	panani'arará'uup	nu'ákiheesh
	of.course	all	my.indian.treasure	I.will.give.you

I'll give you my Indian treasure.

[38]	káru	vúra	xáat	neehrúuthvahi
	also	Intensive	may	you.make.me.a.slave

And you may even take me as your slave."

[39]	kári	xás	upákih	xás	káru	vúra	úhruuthvah
	then	then	she.gave.them.back.(to.him)	then	also	Intensive	she.made.him.a.slave

So she gave them back to him, and she took him as her slave.