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Story: Falling stars
Title
Falling stars
Collection
Summary
Falling Stars. Certain ceremonies in connection with them. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-19. 5478-5483, 5481 rev.,-5483 rev., note). At the death of a sorcerer, his heart falls (as a shooting star) out of the sky and goes into a water pit. The doings and power of sorcerers, etc. (L V.-19. 5483-5505). Falling stars go into the waterpit and sound like the rain; sorcerers' hearts also fall down from the sky and go into the waterpit with a thundering sound; the customs of sorcerers.
Comments
1) p.5477v: this story was told to Dia!kwain by his mother (≠kamme-an), 2) p.5487v: the 'sorcerer of illness' mentioned in the story has died of sickness; the |xam name for an illness, 4) p.5504v: see A presentiment, 5) See also About sorcerers: the rain, their death, earthquakes and their snoring work, 6) This story is found in Book V-19
Contributors
Date
November 1875
Categories
Custom and daily life, Celestial bodies and aeroscopy
Keywords
stars (falling stars) , stars (their light) , stars (and dead sorcerers) , falling stars (their light) , falling stars (resemble fires) , falling stars (their actions and appearance) , falling stars (what they say) , falling stars (teachings about) , falling stars (evil) , falling stars (and the magic powers of sorcerers) , falling stars (and the actions of sorcerers) , falling stars (go into the waterpit) , falling stars (and spitting) , falling stars (actions performed to do with) , falling stars (rituals and ceremonies performed to do with) , falling stars (and dead sorcerers) , falling stars (sorcerer's hearts fall like) , falling stars (and sorcerers of illness) , falling stars (the sounds they make) , falling stars (and the rain) , falling stars (and death) , falling stars (and the actions of women) , falling stars (and babies) , falling stars (and the actions of nursing mothers) , falling stars (and the death of babies) , sorcerers (and falling stars) , sorcerers (rainmakers) , sorcerers (healers) , sorcerers (the death of) , sorcerers (their hearts fall into the waterpit) , sorcerers (the magic powers of) , sorcerers (their magical expeditions) , sorcerers (their actions) , sorcerers (take people away) , sorcerers (travel at night) , sorcerers (their transformation) , sorcerers (their nose) , sorcerers (smell things) , sorcerers (know things) , sorcerers (their things) , sorcerers (their smell) , sorcerers (watch over their things) , sorcerers (have power even when dead) , sorcerers (teachings about) , sorcerers (and illness) , sorcerers (and the rain) , sorcerers (fall heavily) , sorcerers (their magic dance) , sorcerers (long for people they loved) , sorcerers (the sound of their hearts) , sorcerers (thunder and vibrate) , sorcerers (who have died of sickness) , sorcerers (and the actions of stars) , sorcerers (want to fall heavily when they die) , sorcerers (do not leave sorcery behind) , sorcerers (look down on people) , sorcerers (and the treatment of their things) , sorcerers (their things seem alive) , sorcerers (their magic walks about at night) , waterpit (and falling stars) , waterpit (and dead sorcerers) , waterpit (sorcerer's hearts fall into) , waterpit (stars fall into as rain) , rain (and rainmakers) , rain (dead sorcerers' hearts fall into waterpit in the form of) , rain (stars fall into the waterpit and sound like) , rain (and falling stars) , magic powers (of sorcerers even when dead) , magic powers (and falling stars) , hearts (and falling stars) , hearts (of sorcerer's fall into waterpits) , hearts (the sound of those belonging to sorcerers) , nose (of sorcerers who know things) , nose (and falling stars) , illness (sorcerers who have died of sickness) , illness (sorcerers of) , illness (and falling stars) , magical expeditions (of sorcerers) , magical expeditions (and falling stars) , dance (magic, of sorcerers) , dance (and falling stars) , teachings (about sorcerers) , teachings (and falling stars) , education (about sorcerers) , education (and falling stars) , rainmakers (death of) , rainmakers (and falling stars) , rainmakers (sorcerers) , healers (death of) , healers (and falling stars) , healers (sorcerers) , death (and falling stars) , death (of sorcerers or rainmakers) , death (of babies) , death (the actions of nursing mothers to prevent) , women (and falling stars) , women (the actions of nursing mothers)
Story Pages
5478-5505
