Notebooks
Story: About new maidens (continued from Bleek's Book XXVII: p.2618)
Title
About new maidens (continued from Bleek's Book XXVII: p.2618)
Collection
Summary
A note has been made, from ||kábbo’s information, of a story not yet written down in Bushman, telling how the Rain carried off a girl belonging to the First Bushmen (or the ancient people living before the Bushmen), who afterwards became a frog, her kaross being changed into a springbok, etc. Her people were also transformed. (L II.–37. 3335 rev. and 3336 rev.)–Versions of this transformation into frogs, ascribed chiefly to a new Maiden’s acts of disobedience, are given in the Katkop dialect by !kwéiten ta ||kên (L VI.–1. 3930–3958), and by Dia!kwãin. (B XXVII. 2609–2618, continued in L V.–2. 3864–3881). A continuation of a previous story about new maidens (taken in W. Bleek's Book XXVII) in which a new maiden is punished and transformed into a frog when she goes to wash at the spring. This segment of the story accounts for the seclusion of the new maiden in a hut and describes related customs.
Comments
1) This is a continuation of Bleek's story About new maidens in Book XXVII, pp.2609-2618, 2) p.3874v: Dia!kwain says that one gives the girl water in the same way that one would give drink to a small child, 3) p.3876v: Dia!kwain says that one feeds the girl small bite-sized pieces of food, but must not place them directly into her mouth, 4) See also The maiden's story; the Frog's story and A yet unwritten story, about the Rain and one of the First Bushmen girls carried away by a whirlwind and who became a frog, 5) This story is found in Book V-2
Contributors
Date
7 January 1875 (started)
Categories
New maidens, The Rain and Rain's water, Transformation, Custom and daily life
Keywords
new maiden (about new maidens) , new maiden (and rain) , new maiden (the new young girl) , new maiden (how she eats and drinks) , new maiden (who deceived her mother) , new maiden (who cares for by her) , new maiden (prohibitions regarding) , new maiden (the new maiden who is carried off by the Rain and becomes a frog) , new maiden (went into well) , new maiden (angers the Water) , new maiden (her smell) , new maiden (customs relating to treatment of) , new maiden (about) , new maiden (her transformation) , new maiden (and the spring) , new maiden (is punished by the Water) , new maiden (the seclusion of) , new maiden (and water–pit) , new maiden (drinks and eats moderately) , Water (the rain's liquid) , Water (dislikes new maidens) , Water (is angry with new maiden) , Water (transforms new maidens) , Water (punishes new maidens) , Water (dislikes odour of new maidens) , Water (changes girl into a frog) , Water (and the water–pit, spring) , reed (which new maiden drinks through) , rain (the Rain, the Water, the spring) , rain (about new maidens) , rain (its liquid) , rain (and rain's water) , rain (dislikes new maidens) , rain (is angry with new maiden) , rain (transforms new maidens) , rain (punishes new maidens) , rain (dislikes odour of new maidens) , rain (the new maiden who is carried off by, and becomes a frog) , food (eaten by the new maiden) , food (the new maiden drinks and eats moderately) , food (about new maidens) , transformation (of new maidens by the Water) , transformation (the new maiden who becomes a frog) , transformation (about new maidens) , hut (about new maidens) , hut (the seclusion of the new maiden in)
Story Pages
3863-3881
