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Story: The man who went to sleep when out hunting alone
Title
The man who went to sleep when out hunting alone
Collection
Summary
Another legend relates how a man of this early race was killed and eaten by a lion; and it is used to point out the folly of venturing to fall asleep when out alone in the field. Told also by !kwéiten ta //kën (L VI.-2. 4004-4025). By pretending to be dead the man escapes from the Lion, sneaking off home by a clever route in an effort to throw the Lion off his scent. The man hides under a pile of skins at home, but despite his people's efforts to protect him they give up and allow the Lion to take him.
Comments
1) p.4013v: this story was told to !kweiten ta ||ken by her mother (≠kamme-an), 2) p.4015v: a note on the thorn trees and bushes found in this area (the Achterveld), 3) p.4023v: old men and women tell children that beasts of prey make people sleepy out in the veld, 4) See also The Lion and the man's story; what the Lion formerly did to the man or The young man of the Ancient Race, who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field and A lion's story or The child who saved her sleeping parents from the lion, 5) This story is found in Book VI-2
Contributors
!kweiten ta ||ken (Rachel) (VI)
Date
4 – 5 January 1875
Categories
Keywords
Early Race (the First Bushmen) , Early Race (the !khwe |na ss'e !k'e) , Early Race (and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone) , beast of prey (makes people sleepy) , beast of prey (its doings) , beast of prey (its magic powers) , beast of prey (lion is) , lion (makes people sleepy) , lion (and man who went to sleep when out hunting alone) , lion (its nature and habits) , lion (the Lion licks the man's 'eye's tears') , lion (the Lion comes for man whose tears it licked) , hunting (and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone) , hunting (observances) , hunting (-ground's doings) , hunting (teachings about) , hunting (alone) , hunting (and sleeping in veld) , hunting (beasts of prey make men sleepy on -ground) , hunting (warnings about) , hunting (prohibitions regarding) , sleeping (and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone) , sleeping (and magic powers of beasts of prey) , sleeping (warnings about) , sleeping (and hunting alone) , sleeping (on hunting ground) , teaching (hunting observances) , teaching (warnings about beasts of prey and their magic powers) , teaching (and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone) , skins (the man hides from the Lion under) , skins (and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone)
Story Pages
4014-4025
