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Hmong Stories / Re: Neej Neeg ONLY!
« on: May 10, 2012, 01:48:38 PM »The Hmong have used the word dabneeg to mean both a folktale and a historical narration of a past real event. How you spell your syllables--together, they refer to shaman life or shaman lifestyle or shaman fate only.
I think Apple meant to say: Neej Neeg which is Life stories...
I don't have any personal stories but I've heard of a story from an Aunty. She was telling us women that back in the home country, one of her child, a young child, got sick and died. She said the child's hands and feet were still warm..looked like he was sleeping only. After the burial, the villagers and herself heard her child crying from the grave...for awhile and eventually, the crying stopped. Now that she reflected back, she said, "I think my child was not dead but was probably unconscious and we didn't know so we buried him.."
When I heard that life story (neej neeg), it was soooo heartbreaking
