Notebooks
Story: Xurri ko killed by a lion
Title
Xurri ko killed by a lion
Collection
Summary
The death of a relative of the narrator from the bites of a lion, is told in the Katkop dialect by !kweiten ta //ken (L VI.-2. 4010-4013). !kweiten ta ||ken's father and a man called Xurri ko were out hunting quagga when a lion caught Xurri ko and bit him in the leg. Xurri ko died from the severity of his wounds.
Comments
1) p.4009v: !kweiten ta ||ken heard this from her mother and father (≠kamme-an and Xaa-ttin [presumably]); notes to this incident including the name of the place where it happened (Riet Kolk); Xurri ko was !kweiten ta ||ken's father's 'uncle' (or !koin), 2) p.4011v: lions bite people's shoulders and knees but not their heads, 3) This story is found in Book VI-2
Contributors
!kweiten ta ||ken (Rachel) (VI)
Date
2 January 1875 (started)
Categories
History (personal), Healing and ailing
Keywords
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Story Pages
4010-4013
