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Story: The story of a sorceress; that which she did when the Kafir had hurt my throat, she 'snored' me, when my throat was swollen
Title
The story of a sorceress; that which she did when the Kafir had hurt my throat, she 'snored' me, when my throat was swollen
Collection
Summary
The Bushman Doctor or Sorcerer (L II-1. 273-275). An account of these people was also given in the Katkop dialect by Dia!kwáin (L V.-3. 4122-4131), from whom we besides have two reports of cures performed upon himself. The first of these (L V.-3. 4132-4161, 4. 4162-4199) includes a speech made by the sorceress; the second relates how she cured him when injured by a Kafir (L V.-4. 4200-4230). A black man attempts to take Dia!kwain's mother's iron spoons (left to her by her dead husband) and has harmed her family in other ways (the same man poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt). Dia!kwain fights him and afterwards his throat is sore and swollen from the fight. His worried mother asks an old healer (!kwarra-an) to 'snore' him.
Comments
1) p.4204v: Dia!kwain had been carrying ostrich eggs filled with water, and a gun, when the black man seized hold of him, 2) p.4212v: the manner in which the ostrich collapses 'like a round stone' and dies, 3) See also The story of !kwarra-an the sorceress: what she said when she talked with us and how she cured Dia!kwain as a boy and About the sorceress !kwarra-an, 4) This story is found in Book V-4
Contributors
Date
28 January – February 1875
Categories
History (personal), Healing and ailing
Keywords
healer (the old sorceress !kwarra-an who healed or snored Dia!kwain's throat) , sorceress (healer) , sorceress (!gixa) , sorceress (!kwarra-an) , sorceress (is a wise woman) , sorceress (her name is Doro) , sorceress (who healed or snored Dia!kwain's throat) , sorceress (whose hands are weak) , spoons (Dia!kwain's mother's) , spoons (and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat) , black men ('Kafirs') , black men (and |xam) , black men (the man who stole Dia!kwain's mother's spoons) , black men (and harm done to Dia!kwain's throat) , black men (wanted to kill Dia!kwain's family) , black men (poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt) , black men (their nails are poisonous) , black men (and 'a man who wants to kill us') , black men (and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat) , Dia!kwain (his personal history) , Dia!kwain (his fight with the 'Kafir' who strangled his throat) , Dia!kwain (was snored by sorceress !kwarra-an) , Dia!kwain (the names of his relations) , Dia!kwain (the harm done to his relations) , name (of the sorceress who healed Dia!kwain's throat) , name (!kwarra-an's other is Doro) , name (used for a healer is !gixa) , poison (black men poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt) , poison (black mens' nails are poisonous) , poison (and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat) , fight (between Dia!kwain and a black man) , fight (and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat) , personal history (and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's throat) , personal history (black men poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt) , personal history (of Dia!kwain and his relations) , personal history (Dia!kwain's fight with the 'Kafir' who strangled his throat) , healing (by the old sorceress !kwarra-an) , healing (and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's injured throat) , healing (snoring) , snoring (and healing) , snoring (the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's injured throat) , death (black men poisoned Dia!kwain's aunt) , death (and the sorceress who snored Dia!kwain's injured throat)
Story Pages
4200-4230
