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Notebooks

Story: Leopards, lions and phrases

Title

Leopards, lions and phrases

Collection

Wilhelm Bleek notebooks

Summary

A leopard jumps out of a bush and grasps a man's head in its claws. The man slowly returns to his house to lie down and nurse his wounded head. In what seems to be the same story a lion jumps out at a man and bites him, killing him. The lion places the man's body in the shade of a tree.

Comments

1) This story is found in Book I

Contributors

|a!kunta (Stoffel) (I)

Date

1870

Categories

Plants and animals

Keywords

leopard (which bites a man) , lion (which bites a man) , lion (and leopards) , lion (which places the man's body in shade of tree) , man (bitten by a lion) , man (grabbed by a leopard) , man (his body placed in the shade of a tree) , tree (man's body placed by a lion in its shade)

Story Pages

285-288

Page Images

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Book: BC_151_A1_4_001

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Book: BC_151_A1_4_001

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Book: BC_151_A1_4_001

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Book: BC_151_A1_4_001