Notebooks
Story: A lion's story, or, The child who saved her sleeping parents from the lion
Title
A lion's story, or, The child who saved her sleeping parents from the lion
Collection
Summary
A child is hungry and stays awake crying in the night while the parents sleep. A lion hears her and comes into the house. The child takes dried grass from their bedding and sets the lion on fire and it runs away, setting bushes alight as it goes. Her parents reward her with food and the lion dies of its burns.
Comments
1) p.4003v: this story was told to !kweiten ta ||ken by her mother (≠kamme-an), 2) This story is found in Book VI-2
Contributors
!kweiten ta ||ken (Rachel) (VI)
Date
1 January 1875
Categories
Custom and daily life, Plants and animals
Keywords
child (who saves its parents from a lion) , child (and a lion's story) , lion (its story) , lion (and child who saves its parents) , lion (doings of) , lion (and the |xam)
Story Pages
4004-4009
