My mom's side of the family is Irish. So my grandma would tell me stories about my great-grandpa who was from Ireland. Just small stories, such as the fact that he had a musical ear and could play almost every instrument. (I wish it passed on through the family.) I've always been into paranormal things, so I would always ask her if he had encountered anything out of the ordinary throughout his life. Her memory was vague, so she asked her sister Mary, and Mary reminded her of his banshee incidents back in County Cork Ireland.
我母親娘家在愛(ài)爾蘭，因此姥姥總是給我講一些太姥爺在愛(ài)爾蘭的故事。那都是些很短的小故事，比如他非常喜歡音樂(lè)，幾乎能演奏任何樂(lè)器。(但愿這能一輩一輩地傳下去。)我總是對(duì)那些不同尋常的事情感興趣，因此我就問(wèn)她是不是太姥爺遇到過(guò)那些奇異的事情。姥姥的記性已經(jīng)模糊了，于是就問(wèn)她妹妹瑪麗還記不記得類似的事情，瑪麗姥姥就想起了太姥爺在科克郡與女妖的那次遭遇。

My grandma explained to me what Mary had remembered her father telling her as a kid. A banshee, before I go on, is an Irish myth. A ghost that protects an Irish family throughout eternity without showing itself, unless someone in the family dies. Since the banshee can predict the future, it knows who is going to die beforehand. So it mourns under the moonlight, with cries more like the wind and shows itself to someone in the family (preferably the one who isn't going to die). It gets so sad because it is a part of the family.
姥姥告訴我說(shuō)瑪麗姥姥回憶起來(lái)的事情還是在她小時(shí)候聽(tīng)太姥爺說(shuō)的了。我馬上要講到的愛(ài)爾蘭女妖，是個(gè)愛(ài)爾蘭神話。她是個(gè)鬼魂，一生一世保護(hù)著一個(gè)愛(ài)爾蘭人家庭，除非家里有人去世否則人們是不會(huì)看見(jiàn)她的。由于女妖能預(yù)知未來(lái)，因此她也就知道誰(shuí)馬上就要死去了。于是她就在月光下痛哭，聲音就像風(fēng)聲一樣，讓家里的一個(gè)人(不會(huì)是即將要去世的那個(gè)人)能夠看見(jiàn)她。她哭的是那么的悲傷，因?yàn)樗彩沁@個(gè)家庭的一部分。

So anyway, when my great grandpa was a kid he would ride home on a horse, back in Ireland, through the fields from school dances. So once in a while his horse would stop dead in its tracks, because you know animals can sense things people can't. My great grandpa would tell it to trudge on, but it wouldn't budge
那時(shí)太姥爺還是個(gè)孩子，每天放學(xué)后就騎著馬穿過(guò)農(nóng)田回家，一邊走一邊手舞足蹈。有一次，馬突然停下來(lái)，因?yàn)槲覀兌贾绖?dòng)物能感覺(jué)的我們?nèi)烁杏X(jué)不到的東西。太姥爺想趕它繼續(xù)走，但是那匹馬一動(dòng)也不動(dòng)。

So then my great grandpa would feel the coldness of ghosts and would hear the banshee's wail, and my Aunt Mary recalled him saying that the banshee's wail is the worst. Then the wailing and the touch of the ghosts would pass on and his horse would move again. That was all my aunt Mary could remember.
隨即太姥爺就感覺(jué)到了周圍陰森的鬼魂，也聽(tīng)見(jiàn)了女妖的哀哭。瑪麗姥姥還記得他說(shuō)過(guò)，聽(tīng)到女妖哭是最倒霉的事情。隨后哭聲消失了，鬼魂也走開(kāi)了，馬又繼續(xù)向前走。這就是她記得的全部經(jīng)過(guò)了。

Now since my grandpa had seen and heard the banshees, I'm beginning to think we may have a banshee in our family. But not just because of my great grandpa, but because of my mom as well.
既然太姥爺曾經(jīng)見(jiàn)過(guò)也聽(tīng)到過(guò)女妖，我就在想也許我家也有一個(gè)這樣的女妖。當(dāng)然不僅僅是由于太姥爺?shù)慕?jīng)歷，母親也經(jīng)歷過(guò)同樣的事情。

When my mom was nine, she woke up in the middle of the night to look outside the window into the backyard. Glittering in the moonlight, she saw a woman weeping. My mom could hear her cries and said they were more like the wind (she told me this before I read that most banshees cries ARE more like the wind). She also said that the woman was floating above their swimming pool and her appearance was unexplainable. My mom claimed that this woman looked young, but seemed as if she had lived for many years and was an old spirit. She also said that the woman had fair flowing hair. After a while of staring, my mom just lay her head back down on the pillow and drifted off to sleep.
那年母親九歲，有一天深夜她醒過(guò)來(lái)，透過(guò)后院的窗戶向外面看去。在明亮的月光下，她見(jiàn)一個(gè)女人在那啜泣。母親聽(tīng)那哭聲就和風(fēng)聲差不多(母親給我講這事的時(shí)候，我還不知道大多數(shù)女妖的哭聲就像風(fēng)聲那樣)。母親還說(shuō)，那個(gè)女人是漂在游泳池上面的，她的樣子簡(jiǎn)直沒(méi)法形容，一頭金發(fā)隨風(fēng)飄逸，看上去很年輕，但是又仿佛已經(jīng)活了很久，是一個(gè)年老的精靈。當(dāng)時(shí)只看了一會(huì)兒，母親就又躺下，漸漸地就睡著了。

Then I think one or two weeks later, my mom's grandparents died – in the same week. Coincidence? I wonder if I'm going to see one.
我就在想，母親見(jiàn)到女妖的一兩個(gè)星期以后，太姥姥太姥爺在一周內(nèi)相繼去世了。這難道是巧合嗎?我很想知道，是不是我也會(huì)看見(jiàn)愛(ài)爾蘭女妖。

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