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Story: 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
Title
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
Collection
Summary
The young man of the ancient race, who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field. A very affecting legend, in the Katkop dialect, related to Dia!kwãin by his mother ≠kámme–an (L V.-7. 4457-4525). The Lion places the young man in a tree and goes off to get water to drink. The Lion spies on the man and sees him move and decides to drink quickly and run back to eat him. The man springs from the tree and runs home where the people wrap him in hartebeest skins and mats and hide him in the house's 'bush-screen'. The Lion comes and the people shoot at it, but it is not harmed. Eventually the people tire of trying to kill the Lion and ask the man's mother to give her son to the Lion. As the Lion kills the man the people shoot and stab it and it dies.
Comments
1) Dia!kwain heard this story from his mother (≠kamme-an), 2) Date on p.4457: 29 March; p.4503: 4 April, 3) p.4461v: about the Swart-Storm tree (in Dutch) (the tree the man was placed in by the Lion), 4) p.4498v: the baking of !kui-sse roots in a heated and covered hole in the ground, 5) p.4499v: the old woman's fire will be on top of the hole that contains the baking !kui-sse, 6) See also The man who went to sleep when out hunting alone, 7) This story is found in Book V-7
Contributors
Date
29 March – April 1875
Categories
Keywords
lions (the Lion and the man's story) , lions (are sorcerers) , lions (the nature and habits of) , lions (make people sleepy) , lions (won't leave their prey) , lions (are cunning) , lions (die only when the man they seek is dead) , lions (the Lion wants the man whose tears it licked) , lions (the Lion and the man of the Early Race) , lions (and the man who falls asleep while out hunting) , lions (habits of) , lions (the Lion licks the man's 'eye's tears') , lions (are sorcerers) , young man (of the Early Race) , young man (the Lion makes him sleepy) , young man (falls asleep on the hunting-ground) , young man (is taken away by the Lion) , young man (is put in a tree by the Lion) , young man (feigns death) , young man (runs home in a zigzag direction) , young man (tries to fool the Lion) , young man (looks through his eyelashes at the Lion) , young man (his people protect him) , young man (hides in hartebeest skins) , young man (hides in the bushes of the house) , Early Race ('ancient race') , Early Race (the young man of, who falls asleep and is taken away by the Lion) , skin (hartebeest) , skin (young man hides in from Lion) , man (of the Early Race who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field) , man (young) , sleep (lions make people sleepy) , sleep (the young man of the Early Race who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field) , sleep (a cautionary tale about falling asleep on the hunting-ground) , sorcerers (lions are)
Story Pages
4457-4525
