Name: 巴克先生講鬼故事--維多利亞時代的方式 (Mr Barker Tells a Ghost Story — The Victorian Way)
Uploaded: 2025-07-26T18:03:56.000Z
Duration: 17 min 14 s

Music Thunder Thank you for the conies Mr Barker, the servants do like to eat rabbit.

音樂雷聲 謝謝你的餡餅，巴克先生，僕人們喜歡吃兔肉。

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Well if they're anything like my sons they'll be glad of them now but by March they'll be complaining they've never had anything but.

如果他們像我的兒子們一樣，他們現在會很高興，但到了三月份，他們就會抱怨自己從來沒有過別的東西。

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That may be very well but I think Marianne and I can come up with plenty of recipes so they don't get bored before then.

也許這樣很好，但我想瑪麗安和我可以想出很多食譜，這樣他們在此之前就不會感到無聊。

Now what I really wanted to talk to you about was Halloween.

現在，我真正想跟你說的是萬聖節。

Andrew is that his name the stewards room boy?

Yeah well he's asked me to tell some ghost stories in the servants hall and I wondered if you might be able to give me a hand.

他讓我在僕人大廳講鬼故事 我想你能不能幫我個忙

Well November the 1st is All Saints Day and I was always taught to honour the dead as well as the saints.

11 月 1 日是萬聖節，我一直被教導要向死者和聖徒致敬。

Well I've been reading up about the origins of Halloween, how when we were all pagans spirits used to wander abroad and people lit fires to ward them off.

我一直在讀萬聖節的起源，當我們還是異教徒的時候，靈魂會在國外遊蕩，人們會點火來驅趕它們。

We used to have an Irish pot washer and he used to say his family held to old traditions, old as he didn't know when and they used to have a big family meal and they put out a portion of food for the spirits and they always lit a fire.

我們家以前有個愛爾蘭洗鍋匠，他常說他的家族堅持著古老的傳統，古老到他都不知道是什麼時候的事了，他們經常舉行盛大的家庭聚餐，拿出一部分食物供神靈享用，他們總是點燃一堆火。

I wonder if they do something similar in Scotland.

不知道蘇格蘭是否也有類似的做法。

She had a bonfire at Balmoral and they burnt an effigy of a witch.

她在巴爾莫勒爾舉行了篝火晚會，他們燒了一個女巫的肖像。

Well there's those lanterns as well they make out of hollowed out turnips, punkies.

還有那些用挖空的蘿蔔做的燈籠，朋克們。

薩默塞特人就是這麼稱呼他們的。

In Norfolk where I used to work they call them jack-o'-lanterns but that was also a name given to marsh gas.

在我以前工作的諾福克郡，人們把它們叫做 "傑克燈"，但這也是沼氣的一種叫法。

I think there was some story, a nonsense really, about a fellow called Jack.

我想有個故事，其實是個無稽之談，關於一個叫傑克的傢伙。

No doubt a tall tale made up by somebody in a pub to entertain a learned scholar collecting folktales.

毫無疑問，這是某個人在酒館裡編造的一個高大上的故事，用來取悅收集民間故事的博學學者。

Well in America they use pumpkins don't they?

Oh that reminds me, Mr Vert said it's been a good year for pumpkins and vegetable marrow.

哦，我想起來了，Vert 先生說今年是南瓜和蔬菜骨髓的豐收年。

I do find it difficult to find recipes for them, they're so watery.

我發現很難找到適合它們的食譜，因為它們太水了。

Didn't you make a pie out of them with apples?

Oh that was with pumpkins, yes, my pum-poyne pie.

哦，那是用南瓜做的，是的，我的南瓜派。

Now Marianne was telling me where she comes from in North Yorkshire, their children would go out looking for soul cakes.

瑪麗安告訴我，在她的家鄉北約克郡，孩子們會出去尋找靈魂蛋糕。

They'd travel the village looking for cakes, soul cakes.

他們走遍全村尋找蛋糕，靈魂蛋糕。

Although she did say that last time she went to visit her parents at this time of year they don't do it as much as they used to on account of the children having to stay at school for longer.

不過她也說過，上次她去看望父母的時候，由於孩子們要在學校待更長時間，他們已經不像以前那樣經常去看望父母了。

Well I would welcome a cake or two if they were made under your watchful eye.

如果蛋糕是在你的監督下製作的，我會很歡迎的。

Oh I thought you could play a cook called Margaret.

哦，我還以為你能演一個叫瑪格麗特的廚師呢。

Right, now all this happened when we were preparing for one of his lordship's shoots on another estate.

對了，這一切都發生在我們為老爺在另一個莊園的一次拍攝做準備的時候。

Up north it was, pleasant, heathery countryside and decent shooting.

在北部，那裡有令人愉悅的多石楠的鄉村和體面的射擊。

Now I was staying in a spare room in the servants' quarters and their cook, Margaret, took me under her wing and made sure I was well fed.

現在，我住在僕人們住處的一個空房間裡，他們的廚師瑪格麗特把我照顧得很好，確保我吃飽喝足。

Now we arrived while yet the daylight lingered and whilst their lordships were at dinner I went for a ramble about the estate.

我們到達時，天還沒亮，趁著老爺們吃晚飯的時間，我在莊園裡轉了轉。

Now the house and the gardens faced the south and they looked over a few acres of pasture land down to a little winding stream that was beside a little thatched cottage that had its own vegetable patch and it was clearly on the grounds of the estate, so perhaps a gardener's cottage.

現在，房子和花園都朝南，它們俯瞰著幾英畝的牧場，下面是一條蜿蜒的小溪，小溪旁邊有一間茅草屋，屋內有自己的菜地，顯然是在莊園的院子裡，也許是園丁的小屋。

But as I got closer I could see that no smoke curled from the chimney and it had an air of waiting about it as if it had been deserted for years.

但當我走近一看，發現煙囪裡沒有裊裊炊煙，而且有一種等待的氣息，彷彿已經荒廢多年。

The gardens too were untended and unweeded and there was a row of chrysanthemums all shriveled up on their stems.

花園裡也沒有人打理，也沒有人除草，有一排菊花的莖都枯萎了。

Now the winter sunshine faded fast in the twilight and the whitewashed walls gleamed in the gloaming and I thought I caught out the tail of my eye a light on inside one of the windows.

現在，冬日的陽光在暮色中迅速褪去，粉刷過的牆壁在陰暗中閃閃發光，我好像從眼睛的余光中看到一扇窗戶裡亮著燈。

那麼，它是空著無人居住的嗎？

As I turned back I realised it had been a trick of the light, perhaps a pane of glass reflecting the sunset because it looked desolate and deserted.

當我回頭看時，我意識到這是光線的作用，也許是一塊玻璃在反射夕陽，因為它看起來荒涼而冷清。

Now as I looked at it I couldn't help shape the feeling, something uncanny, that there was actually someone there.

現在，當我看著它時，我不禁產生了一種感覺，一種不可思議的感覺，感覺那裡真的有人。

So I went through the garden and I knocked at the door but no one answered, of course no one answered.

於是我穿過花園，敲了敲門，但沒人應，當然沒人應。

I chided myself that I had been like a man who looks under his bed for a burglar and would have been beyond measures surprised if he had actually found one.

我責備自己，我就像一個在床底下尋找小偷的人，如果他真的發現了一個小偷，一定會驚訝得無以復加。

Well I returned to the house and I had my dinner with Margaret, made by her fair hand, and afterwards she got out her favourite pastime that she had picked up off the mistress of the house.

我回到家裡，和瑪格麗特一起吃了她親手做的晚餐，之後她拿出了從女主人那裡學來的她最喜歡的消遣方式。

It's called a planchette and it speaks to the dead.

It says things that never entered my head.

它說了一些我從未想過的事情。

You let the pencil write what it chooses.

Very often it only makes swirls and curls and every now and then a word appears.

很多時候，它只能做出漩渦和捲曲，時不時出現一個單詞。

Yesterday evening for example it wrote gardener over and over again.

比如昨天晚上，它一遍又一遍地寫著園丁。

The gardener here is a Methodist with a chin beard.

這裡的園丁是一個下巴留著鬍子的衛理公會教徒。

That little cottage down by the footbridge, is that the gardener's house?

天橋邊的小木屋是園丁的房子嗎？

Oh it used to be but the chin beard fellow doesn't live there.

哦，以前是的，但那個下巴長鬍子的傢伙不住那兒了。

Well I saw it and I thought that it was empty and then I had a strange feeling that there was somebody there so I knocked and I walked around the house.

我看到了它，我以為它是空的，然後我有一種奇怪的感覺，覺得那裡有人，於是我敲了敲門，在房子裡走了一圈。

There's your answer of why your planchette is saying gardener again and again.

這就是為什麼你的跳板會反覆出現 "園丁 "的答案。

You're thinking of the gardener's cottage.

Well I went upstairs to bed and as I went to my room a strong gleam of moonlight coming through my drawn curtains made me look outside.

我上樓睡覺，當我走到房間時，一束強烈的月光透過拉上的窗簾射進來，讓我不禁向外望去。

My room faced the garden and that cottage beyond and as I looked at it I caught sight of a light in there behind one of the windows and I thought it was strange that that same trick of the light should be presented to me twice in the one day.

我的房間正對著花園和外面的小屋，當我看著它的時候，我看到其中一扇窗戶後面有一束光，我覺得很奇怪，同樣的一束光竟然在一天之內出現了兩次。

But as I looked something even stranger caught my eye.

但就在我看的時候，一個更奇怪的東西映入了我的眼簾。

There was a man stood there in front of the front door.

Now in the dusk I couldn't discern his features I just got the vague impression of a tallish fellow heavily built and as I looked he turned opened the door and he vanished inside.

黃昏中，我看不清他的特徵，只隱約覺得他身材高大，體型魁梧，看著看著，他轉過身打開了門，然後消失在裡面。

So had my conviction been right that there was someone there but I've been distinctly told that the place was empty.

所以，如果我的信念是正確的，有人在那裡，但我清楚地知道，那個地方是空的。

So was my conviction right that there was someone there.

那麼，我對那裡有人的信念是否正確呢？

I've been distinctly told that the place was empty and if so who was he who entered as if returning home.

有人清楚地告訴我，那個地方空無一人，如果是這樣的話，那麼是誰像回家一樣走進來的。

Well the next evening after the first day of the shoot Margaret and I had dinner together again and afterwards she got out her planchette and it started off making loops and curves and peaks but then her head nodded forwards as if she'd fallen asleep and suddenly the writing took off on a definite turn and her hand jerked to a stop at the end when she woke up.

第一天拍攝結束後的第二天晚上，瑪格麗特和我又一起吃了晚飯，之後她拿出了她的鉛筆，一開始她的鉛筆在畫圈、畫曲線和畫山峰，但後來她的頭向前點了點，好像睡著了一樣，突然她的鉛筆就轉了個彎，當她醒來的時候，她的手抽搐著停在了最後。

Hello, have you been playing tricks on me?

Gardener, gardener, I am the gardener, I want to come in, I can't find her here.

園丁，園丁，我是園丁，我想進來，我找不到她。

Oh lord, that gardener again, I must have been thinking of the empty cottage.

天哪，又是那個園丁，我一定是在想那間空蕩蕩的小屋。

Empty, right, I didn't want to say to Margaret just then what I had seen or at least what I thought I had seen and anyway she went up to bed, I took the opportunity to interrogate the weather, it was a cool clear night but as I stepped outside for a walk I saw a tallish heavy set chap disappear around the corner of the house, well I didn't want there to be prowlers about so I sent my dog after him, terrifying as she is, and I waited there to see if anyone might come around that corner of the house but as I waited I heard footsteps coming from the other corner of the house as if they'd gone all the way around the estate, well those footsteps came closer and closer but no one made them, whatever it was this invisible presence came closer to me and then brushed past me and horror upon horror it felt icy cold, I reached out to try and grab hold of whatever it was but it slipped by and went inside the house, just at that moment my dog came bounding around the corner as if pursuing somebody, well she had been and whatever it was had gone inside the house, I could hear footsteps from within, so my dog and I we searched the entire ground floor of the house, we went from pantry to scullery to boot room to servants hall and all was empty and quiet, then we went into the kitchen, that was empty and quiet too but there was a rocking chair sat by the fire and it was tipping gently back and forth as if someone lately sat upon it had suddenly stood up, well my dog barked something terrible at that rocking chair and I wanted to reach out and stop it but I could not persuade myself to go anywhere near it, now what I had seen or what I hadn't seen gave me a rather terrible night's sleep and what the planchette had said kept repeating in my mind, I want to come in, I can't find her here, well someone had come in and they made a thorough job of searching, now who was this mysterious invisible gardener and who were they searching for, well the next morning Margaret had to go off down to town to make sure some particular ingredients were ordered correctly by her kitchen maid, when she came back she had a flush of excitement all over her face, never laugh at my planchette again, I've heard the most extraordinary story from Maud Ashfield in the village, horrible but so frightfully interesting, there was a gardener here some years ago and he used to live in that little cottage and when the family were away up in London he and his wife used to caretake here, he married a wife much younger than himself and gradually he became very jealous of her and one day in a fit of passion he strangled her with his own hands, a little while after someone came to the cottage and found him sobbing over her trying to restore her, they went to the police but before they came back he had taken his own life, he had cut his throat, isn't it all horrible but surely it's rather curious that the planchette said gardener, I am the gardener, I want to come in, I can't find her here, you see I knew nothing about it, I shall do the planchette again this evening, no no not not tonight Margaret, why not you don't have to attend if you don't want to, anyway I just ask you not to, you have got something on your mind, out with it, I believe you're nervous, you think that there is something clear about, what is it?

空的，對，我當時不想對瑪格麗特說我看到了什麼，或者至少我以為我看到了什麼，反正她已經上床睡覺了，我趁機詢問了一下天氣，那是一個涼爽晴朗的夜晚，但當我出去散步時，我看到一個身材高大的傢伙消失在房子的拐角處，我不想讓周圍有徘徊者，所以我讓我的狗去追他、但就在我等待的時候，我聽到有腳步聲從房子的另一個角落傳來，好像他們一直繞著房子走了一圈，那些腳步聲越來越近，但沒有人發出聲音，不管是什麼，這個無形的存在離我越來越近，然後從我身邊擦過，恐怖的是，我感覺到了冰冷、我伸出手想抓住它，但它溜走了，進了房子，就在這時，我

Nothing, nothing, go ahead if you must, all right just for ten minutes and I promise you I won't think of gardeners, well no sooner had Margaret's hand touched the board of the planchette when it started writing across the page, her head tipped forwards as if asleep once again and the writing scrawled out there across the plain white paper, I have come in and I still can't find her here, are you hiding her from me, I will search the room where you are and at that moment an icy blast of wind blew through the place and there was a thunderous smash at the door as if someone knocking, I turned to Margaret, Margaret wake up, I think someone is at the door, the door swung open and a figure ill-defined in the shadows stepped forwards, tallish, heavy set and as he came into the room his head lulled upon one of his shoulders and his eyes swept the room as if searching, they were infinitely sad his eyes and Margaret whose eyes were open now as well was staring at this dreadful visitor and as we sat there his mouth opened above that terrible rust coloured beard but no sound came out, just slathered as he stared at us and he lifted his head and I could see that one side of his throat was carved open and glistening red, I don't know how long we sat there and stared at him as he stood there and stared in silence at us, could have been mere seconds, could have been hours but at length the spectre turned around and walked back the way he had come, I heard the bolts drawn back from the door and it slammed shut strong enough to shake the house, it's all over, God have mercy on him, on him whatever he was, ghost or dream, memory or phantasm, well whatever he was I think something truly terrible had happened in that house and what Margaret said was true enough, God have mercy upon him well Mr Barker I think you're going to give us all nightmares, I'm sure no one will dare go down to the kitchen garden again Avis you were a marvel, you were born to it, I don't know I think a career on the stage might be quite precarious well you tell that to Mrs Scott Siddons or Sarah Bernhardt, I've heard Lily Langtree might be treading the board soon now I must be off, I've got to prepare for the weekend shoot, these lordship stands won't mend themselves and I need to think about pumpkins, well thank you very much Mr Barker, I will see if I can find you a cake or two and we will do this at Halloween, but you must make sure you don't frighten Mr Scott too much

沒什麼，沒什麼，如果你一定要的話就繼續吧，好吧，就十分鐘，我向你保證我不會再想園丁的事了，瑪格麗特的手還沒碰到冥板，冥板就開始在紙上寫字了，她的頭向前傾，好像又睡著了，字跡在純白的紙上潦草地寫著、我進來了，但還是找不到她，你是不是把她藏起來了，我要搜查你所在的房間。就在這時，一陣冰冷的寒風吹過，門外傳來雷鳴般的砸門聲，好像有人在敲門，我轉過身去看瑪格麗特、瑪格麗特醒醒，我想有人在敲門。門被推開了，一個在陰影中輪廓不清的身影走了進來，他身材高大，體格笨重，當他走進房間時，他的頭垂在一邊肩膀上，眼睛掃視著房間

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