Notebooks
Story: The maiden's story; the frog's story
Title
The maiden's story; the frog's story
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 maiden is secluded (in a house of illness) and she goes out and kills and eats the Water's children. The maiden's mother goes to the Water's spring where rain-clouds come out and a whirlwind carries the spring away. The whirlwind carries away the maiden and her whole family and they become frogs. Their things such as their arrows also went into the spring and later grew by the side of it.
Comments
1) The page numbers in this book (VI-1) are duplicates of those in notebook IV-4, 2) Date on p.3949: 21 December, 3) p.3941v: this story was told to !kweiten ta ||ken by her mother (≠kamme-an); !kweiten ta ||ken has not seen the Water's children, but has heard descriptions of them; they are the children of 'great things', such as rainbulls and raincows, 4) p.3957v: all the things that grow by the xhwarra belonged to the First Bushmen, or !khwe |na sse !ke; the use and manufacture of |xam in the building of houses, 5) See also A yet unwritten story, about the Rain and one of the First Bushmen girls carried away by a whirlwind and who became a frog and About new maidens (continued from Bleek's Book XXVII: p.2618) and The Rain's story, and |kannu the waterhole and About new maidens, 6) This story is found in Book VI-1
Contributors
!kweiten ta ||ken (Rachel) (VI)
Date
December 1874
Categories
New maidens, The Rain and Rain's water, Transformation
Keywords
Water's children (the maiden's story; the frog's story) , Water's children (and the Rain) , Water's children (water-child) , Water's children (the new maiden kills and eats) , Water's children (the appearance of) , Water's children (and whirlwind) , Water's children (and frogs) , Water (the water–spring) , Water (his children) , Water (the maiden's story; the frog's story) , house of illness (for new maidens) , house of illness (the maiden's story; the frog's story) , new maiden (the maiden's story) , new maiden (her people are carried away by whirlwind) , new maiden (the frog's story) , new maiden (becomes a frog) , new maiden (kills and eats Water's children) , new maiden (is in house of illness) , water–spring (the Water's spring) , water–spring (transforms people into frogs) , water–spring (and whirlwind) , water–spring (and things of First Bushmen) , water–spring (the First Bushmen's things grow there) , water–spring (and the Rain) , water–spring (the name of) , water–spring (is called xhwarra) , whirlwind (carries away things of First Bushmen) , whirlwind (the maiden's story; the frog's story) , Early Race (the First Bushmen) , Early Race (and maiden's story) , Early Race (and frog's story) , Early Race (and things of First Bushmen) , Early Race (and people who became frogs) , Early Race (the First Bushmen's things grow at water–spring) , children (Water's, eaten by the new maiden) , children (the maiden's story; the frog's story) , things (of the First Bushmen) , things (of the new maiden and her people transformed into frogs) , things (grow at the water–spring) , things (the maiden's story; the frog's story) , frog (its story) , frog (the maiden's story) , frog (the new maiden and her people transformed into) , frog (and the water–spring) , frog (and the Rain) , name (the water–spring called xhwarra) , name (the maiden's story; the frog's story) , illness (house of) , illness (the seclusion of new maidens) , illness (the maiden's story) , rain (the Rain) , rain (the maiden's story; the frog's story) , rain (the Water) , rain (the Water's children killed and eaten by the new maiden) , rain (the Water's spring) , rain (rain-clouds come out at the water–spring)
Story Pages
3942-3958
