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Story: |xue and his mother and father
Title
|xue and his mother and father
Collection
Summary
|xue's father (|xe ||n'u) sees a bird (called !gauka) and |xue goes to look at it and dies. His father carries him back to his mother's. At sunset |xue arises and calls out to his father. When he comes running to |xue, |xue dies and changes into a mouse. When his father sees him he takes an arrow and shoots him. |xue gets up and chases his father. |xue's mother beats his father on the head with a stick. |xue and his father fight and die and shoot at each other.
Comments
1) p.9429v: Tamme heard this from his paternal grandfather (Naka). At the start of this story (on pp.9430-31) Tamme describes how Naka told him stories ('told him of the thing') while his maternal grandfather did not; Naka climbed a |kui fruit tree and fell down and died, 2) p.9438v: the name of a !kun plaything or toy (that resembles a shuttlecock), 3) This story is found in Books XI, XII-6 & XII-7
Contributors
Date
27 April – 24 July 1880
Categories
Keywords
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Story Pages
9430-9435, 9439-9442, 9523-9527
