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Story: |xue and his wives
Title
|xue and his wives
Collection
Summary
This is a story about |xue and his wives (!nanni says that he saw |xue, his house and child while !nanni was with the Herero). |xue resembles a lizard one day, a |ou (a small buck, probably a steenbok) the next, and a little tsema and a ||ha and a python (≠ni), all on different days. When |xue dies he resembles the |ou (and has horns). As |xue lies there dead his wives see him and come and pick him up and carry him to the house. The elder (or 'greater') wife makes a fire to cook the kid, and puts his body on the fire. |xue calls out, objecting to being put on the fire. The second wife takes |xue to her house and covers him with a kaross. He bites it and becomes a kid again. The second wife kills him and puts him in a cooking pot, shutting him in and covering him. He becomes an ant and bites his second wife. His wife crushes his ant's head and throws |xue down on the ground.
Comments
1) p.9298v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu); |xue was a !kun, 2) p.9303v: a race of people called the |ka kue who are like the |nani; they kill the Makoba as well as !kun; they use bows but not guns and come from the same country as the Shimbari and the |nani, 3) p.9306v: the !kun name for 'thinking-strings', 4) This story is found in Book XI & XII-4
Contributors
Date
8 February 1880 (started)
Categories
Transformation, Relations with others
Keywords
!nanni (saw |xue when he was with the Herero) , !nanni (his paternal grandfather is Karu) , !nanni (what his grandfather told him about |xue) , |xue (and his wives) , |xue (his wife slaps him) , |xue (what his wife says to him) , |xue ('another day thou wilt die') , |xue (as ant his head is crushed by his wife) , |xue (was a Bushman) , |xue (in the form of a small buck) , |xue (in the form of a kid) , |xue (becomes a |ou in the kaross skin) , |xue (the death of) , |xue (is eaten by vultures) , |xue (his doings and actions) , |xue (resembles different animals and things) , |xue (resembles a lizard) , |xue (his elder wife puts him on the fire) , |xue (resembles a python) , |xue (changes appearance) , |xue (what Karu said about) , |xue (the people fear him) , |xue (what !nanni's grandfather told him about) , |xue (!nanni saw his house and children) , |xue (his wives) , |xue (his transformations) , |xue (becomes a |ou) , |xue (becomes a kid) , |xue (becomes a snake and bites his wife) , |xue (becomes ant and bites his wife) , |xue (his wives try to eat him) , |xue (is beaten and killed by his second wife) , |xue (his relations) , |xue (his wife shuts him in the cooking pot) , transformation (of |xue) , transformation (|xue becomes different animals) , transformation (of |xue into many things) , transformation (|xue is transformed under a kaross or skin) , kaross (skin) , kaross (|xue is transformed under) , wife (|xue's) , wife (|xue has more than one) , wife (elder or 'greater') , wife (second) , death (of |xue) , death (and |xue's transformations) , Karu (!nanni's paternal grandfather) , Karu (what he told !nanni about |xue) , Herero (!nanni saw |xue when he was with them)
Story Pages
9299-9310, 9316-9324
