Notebooks
Story: The explanation of the name Ssu-!kui-ten-tta (or Snore-White-Lying)
Title
The explanation of the name Ssu-!kui-ten-tta (or Snore-White-Lying)
Collection
Summary
[A] note explaining the curious name of the son of a sorceress.(L V.-9. 4652 and 4651 rev.). The naming of the Bushman Ssu-!kui-ten-tta (or Snore-White-Lying or 'Witbooi'). His mother 'snored' people without a kaross.
Comments
1) See p.4669v for more details about Ssu-!kui-ten-tta (Snore-White-Lying or 'Witbooy'), who died at the Breakwater and who was one of Dia!kwain's 'mates', 2) See also What the springbok and the gemsbok did when they knew that Dia!kwain's wife would die (it features Ssu-!kui-ten-tta), 3) This story is found in Book V-9
Contributors
Date
30 April 1875
Categories
History (personal), Healing and ailing, Custom and daily life
Keywords
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Story Pages
4652 & 4651v
