Notebooks
Story: Story of the Lion and the Jackals
Title
Story of the Lion and the Jackals
Collection
Summary
A fable, somewhat similar to the Hottentot one of the lion and the jackal who went to shoot elands ('Reynard the Fox in South Africa', p.3, etc.), was told in the Katkop dialect, by #kásin (L IV.-1. 3486-3515); from whose dictation another beginning of the same fable has also been written down (L IV.-1. 3485). A slightly different version, likewise given by ≠kásin, has only been hurriedly taken down in English (L IV.-1. 3484 rev.-3492 rev.). A Jackal shoots an eland and the Lion comes and takes it away. The Jackal is advised by a sorceress to remain at home and she will make everything vanish. The next day, after the eland has been shot, the sorceress makes a mountain where its body lies and the Lion cannot find it. The Lion asks for water and for fat, but the Jackal kills him by placing a heated stone in the Lion's mouth instead of fat.
Comments
1) See also Story of the Lion and the Jackals: another translation which is a little different and A fragment of a story about Lions and Jackals, 2) This story is found in Book IV-1
Contributors
Date
12 November 1873
Categories
Keywords
Jackal (story of the Lion and the Jackals) , Jackal (accounting for doings of) , Jackal (was a person) , Jackal (defeats and masters Lion) , Jackal (the nature and habits of) , Jackal (his people) , Jackal (and Lion) , Jackal (is clever) , Jackal (tricks and deceives) , Jackal (and sorceress) , Jackal (the eland, his prey) , eland (shot by Jackal) , eland (and story of the Lion and the Jackals) , eland (is stolen by Lion) , eland (is Jackal's prey) , Lion (story of the Lion and the Jackals) , Lion (mistreats Jackal) , Lion (strives for mastery) , Lion (steals eland, Jackal's prey) , Lion (and Jackal) , Lion (is defeated by Jackal) , Lion (is killed by heated stone in his mouth) , sorceress (Jackal-sorceress) , sorceress (old woman) , sorceress (advises Jackal) , sorceress (and story of the Lion and the Jackals) , sorceress (makes a mountain) , mountain (made by Jackal-sorceress) , mountain (and story of the Lion and the Jackals)
Story Pages
3486-3515v
