The Boy Who Became a Stone

Tinguian

ティンギアン

One day a little boy named Elonen sat out in the yard making a bird snare, and as he worked, a little bird called to him: "Tik-tik-lo-den" (come and catch me).

ある日、エロネンという名の小さな子が庭に座って鳥の罠を作っていた。そして作っているあいだ、小さな鳥が呼びかけた。「ティクティクロデン」(来て捕まえてごらん)。

"I am making a snare for you," said the boy; but the bird continued to call until the snare was finished.

「おまえのために罠を作っているのだ」と子は言った。けれども鳥は罠ができ上がるまで呼び続けた。

Then Elonen ran and threw the snare over the bird and caught it, and he put it in a jar in his house while he went with the other boys to swim.

それからエロネンは走って鳥に罠をかぶせて捕らえ、そしてほかの子たちと泳ぎに行くあいだ、家の甕に入れておいた。

While he was away, his grandmother grew hungry, so she ate the bird, and when Elonen returned and found that his bird was gone, he was so sad that he wished he might go away and never come back. He went out into the forest and walked a long distance, until finally he came to a big stone and said: "Stone, open your mouth and eat me." And the stone opened its mouth and swallowed the boy.

留守のあいだに祖母が腹を空かせて、その鳥を食べてしまった。そしてエロネンが帰って鳥がいなくなっているのを見つけると、あまりに悲しくて、どこかへ行って二度と帰ってこられればよいと思った。彼は森へ出ていって長い道を歩き、そしてとうとう大きな石のところへ来て言った。「石よ、口を開けてわたしを食べてくれ。」すると石は口を開けてこの子を呑み込んだ。

When his grandmother missed the boy, she went out and looked everywhere, hoping to find him. Finally she passed near the stone and it cried out, "Here he is." Then the old woman tried to open the stone but she could not, so she called the horses to come and help her. They came and kicked it, but it would not break. Then she called the carabao and they hooked it, but they only broke their horns. She called the chickens, which pecked it, and the thunder, which shook it, but nothing could open it, and she had to go home without the boy.

祖母が子がいないのに気づくと、外へ出て、見つかることを願いながらいたるところを探した。とうとうあの石の近くを通ると、石が叫んだ。「ここにいる。」それから老女は石を開けようとしたけれどもできず、そこで馬たちに来て助けてくれと呼んだ。馬たちは来て石を蹴ったが、石は割れなかった。それからカラバオを呼び、カラバオは角で突いたが、角を折るだけだった。彼女は鶏を呼び、鶏は石をついばみ、そして雷を呼び、雷は石を揺さぶった。けれども何も石を開けることはできず、そして彼女は子を連れずに家へ帰らなければならなかった。