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Story: |xue and the bam-bam, and as other things
Title
|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things
Collection
Summary
|xue is afraid of a large bam-bam bird and becomes (or makes) a leopard (!khumm). Woodpigeons, an owl, a korubo and some ||kuorres (small mouse-like animals with cat-like eyes and tail) all laugh at the leopard. The leopard stalks a number of animals and searches for the carcass of a bam-bam bird. At sunset the leopard becomes |xue again and lies down to eat shana. He walks to the water, which is far off. He drinks all the water and shoots a young |ou (a small buck, probably a steenbok), breaking its foreleg. When |xue tries to shoot again his bow breaks. |xue goes to sleep on the bare ground and then makes a new bow from a stick.
Comments
1) The latter pages of this story feature pencil translations, presumed to be by D. Bleek; 2) p.9758 opp: (16 December 1880) vocabulary and a description of the |no (a horned wild animal), 3) p.9758v: another name for the lion: 'our country's lion takes offence about his name (if it is mentioned)' – see also The avoidance of the name of the lion (Books V-7 and V-8) for a similar |xam belief; a description of the |hu'nishe, 4) p.9759v: (8 March 1881) a bird which tells the people how to find honey, 5) p.9760v: an interesting note about words for 'being afraid of a woman', 6) p.9763v: the !kun do not strike the lion but shoot it with an arrow, 7) a description of the ||kuo'rre and some of its habits, 8) p.9778v: (21 April 1881) Terms for bravery and timidity; the Makoba put five pieces of feather in their arrows whereas the !kun use three or four pieces, 9) pp.9783v-9785v: see A note on ||kum'm or rain-clouds, 10) p.9786v: 'we are those who refuse to be bound'; a description of evading and throwing others off one's scent, 11) p.9789v: (8 April 1881) see A Bushman drum, 12) p.9792v: (4 April 1881) see Water and wells, 13) 9798v: see Treatment of the old, 14) This story is found in Book XI & XII-10
Contributors
Date
20 October 1880 (started)
Categories
Keywords
|xue (and the bam-bam, and as other things) , |xue (carries a leopard skin) , |xue (fears the call of the bam-bam) , |xue (searches) , |xue (as a leopard, whistles) , |xue (||kuorres steal and eat his bam-bam) , |xue (and black rain-clouds called ||kum'm) , |xue (cries for water to drink) , |xue (sings a song) , |xue (sun burns him) , |xue (and his things) , |xue (his bow breaks) , |xue (becomes a leopard, and |xue) , |xue (and the bam-bam) , |xue (he works, or makes, many things) , |xue (cries) , |xue (becomes different things on different days) , |xue (resembles many things) , |xue (his actions and doings) , |xue (his transformations) , |xue (changes at sunrise and sunset) , |xue (sleeps without a fire) , |xue (makes fire) , skin (of leopard, |xue's) , skin (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , leopard (skin, |xue's) , leopard (|xue becomes one and whistles) , leopard (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , sun (burns |xue) , sun (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , transformation (of |xue) , transformation (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , transformation (|xue works, or makes many things) , transformation (|xue becomes different things) , transformation (|xue's changes) , transformation (|xue becomes a leopard, and |xue) , rain-clouds (or ||kum'm) , rain-clouds (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , bird (the bam-bam) , bird (!kun name of) , bird (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , plants (shana) , plants (!kun name of) , plants (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , names (!kun) , names (of bird) , names (of rain-clouds) , names (of plant) , names (of leopard) , names (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , bow (|xue's breaks) , bow (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , buck (called |ou) , buck (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , rain (clouds called ||kum'm by the !kun) , rain (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , leopard (called !khumm by the !kun) , leopard (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , song (sung by |xue) , song (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , animals (which laugh at |xue as a leopard) , animals (|xue and the bam-bam, and as other things) , animals (woodpigeons, an owl, a korubo and some ||kuorres laugh at the leopard)
Story Pages
9758-9772, 9777-9793, 9798-9799
