*Note This Story is in Kapampangan
Atin kung bayung kaluguran.
Aura ing lagyu na. Anak yang kaparehu ku pero eke dating akakit queng banda kekami. Pane yang magdalang payung agyang nokarin ya munta. Pero tiki na kung sinulapo. Asnang makatula.
Sinabi na pwede kaming mamyalung queng bale da kaybat tiki na ku queng maragul a batu. Bala kusa mamiru ya mu, pero anyang telnan ne ing batu, meging yang maragul a palasyo. Mebigla ku!
Anyang palako na ku, dininan na kung dakal a baryang pilak. Pero pepag sumpa nakung ali ku panyabyan agyang kaninu. Sinabi na kaku metung yang enki-… enko… engkantada at ating matsurang malyari kaku agyang penyabi ku kareng aliwa. Sininop ko la reng barya lalam ning kakung pagkeran. Aisip ku e la mayap a barya.
Manibat kanita, mesakit ne i apu ku tapos minta yang banua. Me-aksidente ya i koyang ku queng saken na atsu ya ospital ngeni. Kayabe ne i ma ku pero balu ku matsura ya naman panamdaman.
Buri kung sabyan kang tatang ku ing tungkul kang Aura na palage ku iya ing makigawa. Pero bengi-bengi daramdaman ke ing lawiswis ning angin tapus akakit ke ing payung na queng tulid awang. Daramdaman ku mu rin ing ayli na.
Palage ku e ya mayap kaluguran.
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English Version
I made a new friend.
Her name was Aura, she was a kid just like me but I never saw her around the neighborhood before.
I thought it was strange that she always carried an umbrella around, but then she took me flying with it. It was so much fun!
She told me we could play in her house and she took me to this big rock. I thought she was joking but when she touched it, it turned into a big palace. I was so surprised!
When I was about to leave she gave me so many silver coins and she made me promise not to tell anyone where I got them. She told me she was an enki-… enko…. engkantada and that bad things would happen to me if I told on her.
I kept the coins under my bed but I don’t think they were good coins. Since then, Lola got sick and went to heaven. Kuya had a car crash and now he’s in the hospital. Mama’s with him but I think she’s getting sick too.
I want to tell Papa about Aura and that maybe she did something, but every night I can hear the sound of the wind and her umbrella outside my window.
I can hear her laughing.
I don’t think she’s a very good friend.
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Written by Karl Gaverza
Copyright © Karl Gaverza
Translation Copyright © Bernadette Quizon
“The Fairy Maiden” in Philippine Folk Literature: The Legends. Eugenio. 2002.Aura Illustration and Colors by Rabbit Heart
