1 the man and the water sprites.
2 a man had drunken a lot of spirits.
3 he wants to go somewhere, and his mother told him: "may the water sprite carry you, if you drink more spirits!"
4 afterwards he goes to the department district administration's house to drink spirits, and (on his way) he met the church warden and the djak.
5 they ask him: "where do you go?"
6 he said: "to you!" the church warden and the djak say: "well! let's go!" they go, and they even pass by the tavern.
7 now the man says: "these are not humans!" they go continuous and arrive to the river (actually water).
8 thereupon they (the church warden and the djak) embrace him and carry him away.
9 they were water sprites.
10 thereupon they carried him into a good house, gave him tea and sugar.
11 then the man began to pray, and in the same moment they turned into a fir tree, and the sugar turned into fir cones.
12 afterwards the man went home, was taken ill and died.