Notebooks

Story: The Day's Heart star child

Title

The Day's Heart star child

Collection

Summary

A small, but interesting piece, including the address of the younger sister to the wife of the Dawn’s–Heart, when she had been transformed into a lioness, was given by /a !kúnta, who had heard it from a sister. (L I.–2. 160).

Comments

1) This story is incomplete, as there is only one page in this notebook, 2) p.159v: |a!kunta remembers this part of the story of !gau e |i pua 'as told to him by a sister (now, I believe dead)', 3) The Day's Heart is also published as the Dawn's Heart (in Specimens of Bushman Folklore), 4) See also Day's Heart and More about the Day's Heart star: what he says to his daughter and The Day's Heart star and The story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara or !ko'-g !nuin-tara and the Day's Heart star, 5) This story is found in Book I-2