Notebooks
Story: Lion eats all things
Title
Lion eats all things
Collection
Summary
An account of the doings of a family of lions (apparently a continuation of one of the Ichneumon’s speeches, in the myth of the Mantis) gives a good deal of conversation of such a description as might naturally be ascribed by Bushmen to lions (L II-10. 1051-1099, 11. 1100-1170). The verso pages give further details on how the lion steals up on the people and how they chase the lions away with heated embers.
Comments
1) p.1054v: animals eaten by the lion, 2) p.1058v: the lion and its movements according to the position of the sun, 3) p.1060v: a diagram, showing where the lion waits (near the man's house) for the sun to set and the fires to go out, 4) p.1063v: people throw embers at the lion using a disk of ostrich heart bone, 5) p.1075v: |xam names and terms for lookouts for hunting game, 6) p.1077v: |xam and Dutch names for dense green bushes found in Bushmanland, 7) See also The doings of a family of lions, 8) This story is found in Book II-10
Contributors
Date
10 January 1872 (started on or about)
Categories
Plants and animals, Custom and daily life
Keywords
lion (its nature and habits) , lion (eats all things) , lion (its diet) , lion (its hunting methods) , lion (eats people) , lion (steals up on people) , lion (is cunning) , lion (methods of chasing away) , lion (chasing with heated embers) , lion (Ichneumon’s speech about) , plants (names of) , plants (sai bush) , plants (!kwai bush) , river (the Har) , |xam (and lions) , hunting (methods of lions which eat all things) , names (of plants) , names (of a river) , names (of food eaten by lions) , Ichneumon (his speech about lions which eat all things) , speech (Ichneumon's, about lions which eat all things)
Story Pages
1051-1085
