Comments on: Young Goumonthong

By: Nye

Nye — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:25:58 +0000

Lila, thanks, and next time I’ll make sure to add more cute pictures in my ghost story posting.

By: Nye

Nye — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:21:45 +0000

Hi Shawn, thanks. I often ask myself if I’m scared by the stories that I translate and I think I’m not but more fascinating with them, kind of odd.

By: Lila

Lila — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:37:01 +0000

I usually never read ghost stories since I get scare easily. But the pic of the little boy pulled me in. I thought it was going to be a story about a lady giving birth to a ghost boy.

Thank goodness I’ve never had such an encounter in my lifetime. And hope to never will!

Btw, great job with the translation too.

By: ArnuShawn

ArnuShawn — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:24:29 +0000

Well, I felt it – the hair raising experience while reading this. Good job and maybe too good that I hope I won’t expereience that tonight.

By: Nye

Nye — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:37:15 +0000

K, it’s true that people should not promise if they can’t keep it, then blame it on everything else under the sun when the one person that they should be blaming is themselves, I don’t like to deal with this type of people.

As for this belief, Goumonthong is a stillborn baby that was dried up, and the owner would have this for protection (black magic) and they have to give children’s gifts to their Goumonthong to try to make them happy, but in this case, it appeared that the owner had neglected the Goumonthong.

By: K.noizki

K.noizki — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:26:48 +0000

Nice translation to the story. Sounds like a bad dream. If it happened to me, I would have asked why he was wearing a turban, haha.

Moral lesson should be, “if you can’t keep your promises, you shouldn’t make them in the first place.”

I think that’s why the ghost-boy was relief after he received the toy.

By: Nye

Nye — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:00:55 +0000

nangmeta, I’ll keep that in mind the next time, I hope it works with adult ghost also.

By: Nye

Nye — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:00:09 +0000

Julie, you’re welcome, if it’s weird to us, imagine to foreigners.

By: nangmeta

nangmeta — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:36:30 +0000

Love this one…especially the bribery with the toys, hehe.

By: Dirtii Launder-ER

Dirtii Launder-ER — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:10:50 +0000

o.O dog and cats? wow, it’s just keeps getting weird and weirder. thanks na p’nye for the clarifications =]

By: Nye

Nye — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:50:59 +0000

Hi Julie, I’m not sure why it’s only a boy baby either, might be that back in the olden days girl don’t play much role in society, and Goumonthong supposed to be a spiritual guidance for blank magic (mon dum) used mostly by male Mor Pee, so makes sense for him to be a boy and might also follow the idea of only boys are allowed to enter into monkshood. I’ve heard that they have dog and cat Goumonthong now.

By: Dirtii Launder-ER

Dirtii Launder-ER — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:48:04 +0000

yayyyyyyyyyyy! i miss you doing your translations of ghost stories p’nye..

i had chills reading that.. i guess being almost 3 am doesn’t help either! i’ve always wondered that also. why is goumonthong always a boy? is it more sacred if it’s a boy?