Skön · Skönsmon · 1912
As a child I was admitted to the orphanage here in town. ……..
Som barn var jag intagen på barnhemmet här i stan. ……..
- Parish
- Skön
- Village
- Skönsmon
- Year
- 1912
- Collector
- Levi Johansson
- Informant
- Tora Holmbom
- Record no.
- NM-MHA01022
English translation
As a child I was admitted to the orphanage here in town. That house was a real ghost nest. One day I was sitting in the infirmary. None of the adults were there. Then I saw a lady come from the directress's room. She was dressed in an old-fashioned way, that one. She stopped by one of the beds, where a little girl lay sick with consumption. In a moment she went out. - No sooner had the stranger left, than the girl had a hemorrhage and died, before any of the matrons could get in. I told what I had seen. However, no strange lady had been in to see the directress. It was merely a vision and a premonition of the girl's death.
Original transcription (Swedish)
Som barn var jag intagen på barnhemmet här i stan. Det huset var ett riktigt spöknäste. En dag satt jag inne på sjuksalen. Ingen av de vuxna var där. Fick jag så se en dam komma från föreståndarinnans rum. Hon var klädd urmodigt, den där. Hon stannade vid en av sängarna, där en liten flicka låg sjuk i lungsot. Om en stund gick hon ut. - Ej förr hade den främmande gått, förrän flickan fick blodstörtning och dog, innan någon av fröknarna hann in. Jag talade om, vad jag sett. Någon främmande dam hade dock icke varit inne hos föreståndarinnan. Det var endast en syn och ett förebud till flickans död.
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Source: Murberget Länsmuseet Västernorrland, folk memory collection. These records were written down in the first half of the 1900s; the collectors' language and values are of their own time.