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Story: Stoffel's grandmother

Title

Stoffel's grandmother

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

The narrator’s grandmother restored to life. Related by /a!kúnta. (L I.-2. 133) |a!kunta's (Stoffel's) grandmother (his 'oud mamma') is dead. The people come back to look (to 'smell') for her but she has gone away. She has stood up and walked away. The people set her things down and sleep in the darkness, and get up the next day.

Comments

1) This story is found in Book I-2

Contributors

|a!kunta (Stoffel) (I)

Date

May 1871

Categories

History (personal)

Keywords

|a!kunta (Stoffel) , |a!kunta (his personal history) , |a!kunta (the death of his grandmother) , death (of |a!kunta's grandmother) , death (practices surrounding) , death (a description of) , death (and magic) , death (and resurrection) , personal history (the death of |a!kunta's grandmother)

Story Pages

133

Page Images

Image File: A2_1_6_00133.JPG

Book: BC_151_A2_1_006