Notebooks
Story: The Water's story: more about how maidens adorn young men
Title
The Water's story: more about how maidens adorn young men
Collection
Summary
What a Maiden must eat and avoid (L II.-28. 2520-2524). How a New Maiden is treated, has been told in the Katkop dialect, by !kwéiten ta ||ken (L VI.-2. 3997-4003); who also narrates the use made by Bushman Maidens of a kind of red stone (L VI.-1. 3970-3974). Maidens paint and adorn young men so that the rain and its lightning will not harm them out on the hunting-ground.
Comments
1) The page numbers in this book (VI-1) are duplicates of those in notebook IV-4, 2) See also About maidens and how they adorn young men with |ka or rooi klip, 3) This story is found in Book VI-1
Contributors
!kweiten ta ||ken (Rachel) (VI)
Date
26 December 1874
Categories
New maidens, The Rain and Rain's water, Custom and daily life
Keywords
maidens (and the Water's story) , maidens (and rain) , maidens (adorn young men) , maidens (protect young men from rain) , maidens (paint young men) , maidens (protect from an angry rain) , rain (and the Water's story) , rain (angry) , rain (and protection of young men) , rain (and painting by maidens) , rain (gives sores) , rain (and lightning) , painting (and the Water's story) , painting (as protection from rain) , painting (by maidens) , painting (of young men) , young men (and the Water's story) , young men (maidens paint and adorn them) , young men (the protection of from angry rain) , young men (the rain makes them sick with sores) , Water (its story and how maidens adorn young men) , Water (how maidens adorn young men) , illness (the angry rain makes young men sick with sores) , illness (from lightning) , illness (and the Water's story) , illness (why maidens adorn young men) , hunting ground (and the Water's story) , hunting ground (maidens adorn young men as protection from lightning on) , lightning (the rain makes young men sick with sores from) , lightning (and the angry rain) , lightning (and the Water's story) , lightning (and how maidens adorn young men as protection from) , lightning (on the hunting ground) , adornment (how maidens paint young men) , adornment (as protection from the rain and lightning) , adornment (by maidens) , adornment (of young men)
Story Pages
3974
