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Story: |xue and his father-in-law
Title
|xue and his father-in-law
Collection
Summary
|xue pours water on his sleeping wife and she curses him. His wife takes a fire-stick and beats his forehead and |xue runs off to another place where he sleeps on the ground. At sunrise the wife's father looks for |xue, calling for him as he goes. |xue rises up and his father-in-law gives him food to eat. |xue goes with his father-in-law to his house where |xue's wife waits. She says that he had resembled many different things while he was gone and that she had seen him. He had been a man at sunset and a lizard at sunrise. She warns him that he will get killed by another man when he goes in this form into another country.
Comments
1) p.9340v: the names for the hunters of both large and small game, 2) p.9347v: see |xue becomes !naxane, 3) p.9348v: see |xue as tchaxa, 3) This story is found in Book XI & XII-5
Contributors
Date
20 – 23 February 1880
Categories
Keywords
|xue (and his father-in-law) , |xue (his heart ached) , |xue (changes at sunrise and sunset) , |xue (becomes different things on different days) , |xue (his country) , |xue (his actions and doings) , |xue (and his wife) , |xue (his wife scolds him) , |xue (resembles many things) , |xue (is afraid of his wife) , |xue (his father-in-law searches for him) , |xue (his wife plays with him when he is a lizard) , |xue (his wife cries for him) , |xue (returns to his own country) , |xue ('May the lion take |xue!') , |xue (becomes solitary) , |xue (fetches his wife) , |xue (hungers) , |xue (his wife beats and curses him) , |xue (his mother-in-law beats him) , |xue (is a different thing) , |xue (his transformations) , |xue (becomes different animals and things) , |xue (becomes a Bushman at sunset and a lizard at sunrise) , transformation (of |xue) , transformation (|xue changes at sunrise and sunset) , transformation (|xue becomes different things on different days) , curse ('May the lion take |xue!') , curse (of |xue by his wife) , curse (|xue and his father-in-law) , heart (|xue's ached) , heart (|xue and his father-in-law) , lion (and cursing) , lion ('May the lion take |xue!') , lion (|xue and his father-in-law) , wife (|xue and his father-in-law) , wife (of |xue) , country (|xue returns to his own) , father-in-law (|xue and his)
Story Pages
9335-9349
