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Story: The place to which people go after death, and various ways of dying and being killed
Title
The place to which people go after death, and various ways of dying and being killed
Collection
Summary
Death. The place to which the Bushmen go after death. The various ways of dying, and of being killed (L II.-12. 1173-1243, 13. 1244-1314. 14. 1315-1396). A description of the place where people go to after death as well as various ways of dying, including murder and death from starvation.
Comments
1) p.1173v: a knife with two sharp edges like those from Damaraland, 2) p.1174v: (26 May 1879) an opening called a 'grave' by ||kabbo's people, 3) p.1175v: a knife with one sharp edge, 4) p.1176v: the man who shoots well lives and the man who shoots 'amiss' dies of hunger, 5) See also A man is wounded by another by accident when out after springbok and ||kabbo tells of death, the hole, and the path of the First Bushmen, 6) This story is found in Book II-12
Contributors
Date
12 – 13 April 1872
Categories
Keywords
death (different ways of dying and being killed) , death (the place where |xam go after) , death (of |xam) , death (of people) , murder (and death of people and place they go to after dying) , poison (and death of people and place they go to after dying) , hunger (and death of people and place they go to after dying) , hunger (death from starvation) , hunting (and death of people and place they go to after dying) , hunting (and shooting well or badly) , hunting (accidents) , place (where people go after dying)
Story Pages
1173-1180
