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Story: How the Jackal deceived the Hyena
Title
How the Jackal deceived the Hyena
Collection
Summary
The 'Jackal’s Tower' still visible as a 'spitzkop' on the other side of the Zak River gives rise to a 'Jackal and Hyena' fable, told to Dia!kwãin by his mother ≠kámme–an (L V.-4. 4231-4252 1/2). A Jackal comes upon a Hyena which has killed a quagga while he is out hunting. The Hyena goes to fetch his wife while the Jackal builds a high shelter for the Hyena's children. The Hyena is pulled up by a riem and the Jackal severs it just when the Hyena is in reach of the meat, and he falls into the fire where he is burnt (accounting for the markings on his back). The Jackal protests that he is always blamed for the doings of his brother, who is really the cunning one .
Comments
1) p.4230v: Dia!kwain's mother (≠kamme-an) told him this story; the |xam and Dutch names for the spitzkop (which is the setting for this story); a partly legible note about another Jackal who was formerly married to a Quagga, 2) p.4231v: the name of the Hyena's wife, 3) p.4235v: about the mouse whose entrails are made into a riem (the !ne-sarra or Klaas-nuis), 4) p.4238v: the riem is called !hau in Dia!kwain's dialect, 5) This story is found in Books V-4 and V-5
Contributors
Date
23 February 1875 (started)
Categories
Keywords
Jackal (how the Jackal deceived the Hyena) , Jackal (kills people with its cunning) , Jackal (and Hyenas) , Jackal (his wife) , Jackal (builds a house of sticks) , Jackal (and the riem or thong) , Jackal (and Hyena's quagga) , Jackal (burns Hyena) , Hyena (how the Jackal deceived the Hyena) , Hyena (and his people) , Hyena (his travelling party) , Hyena (his prey, quagga) , Hyena (and the riem) , Hyena (his back parts are burnt) , Hyena (is burnt in fire) , Hyena (accounting for appearance of the hyena's back parts) , riem (a thong) , riem (made of mouse-entrails) , riem (how the Jackal deceived the Hyena) , thong (the riem made of mouse-entrails) , thong (how the Jackal deceived the Hyena) , quagga (the prey of Hyena) , quagga (how the Jackal deceived the Hyena) , fire (Hyena is burnt in) , fire (accounting for appearance of the hyena's back parts) , fire (how the Jackal deceived the Hyena) , animals (accounting for appearance of the hyena's back parts)
Story Pages
4231-4252 1/2, 4253- 4264
