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Story: About sorcerers: their death, their snoring work, earthquakes and the rain
Title
About sorcerers: their death, their snoring work, earthquakes and the rain
Collection
Summary
Further details concerning what occurs at the death of a sorcerer, and concerning the harmful and beneficial doings of sorcerers (L V.-19. 5506-5530). When a sorcerer dies, an earthquake takes place, and a star shoots. Even when asleep, a sorcerer knows what is going about in the night; and takes care of the people, defending them from the sorcerers. (L V.-19. 5531-5536 1/2). Sorcerers' hearts sound like the rain when they die and their hearts fall into waterpits. Parents say they fear falling stars, because they know things that happen and always fall for a reason. Sorcerers can send their sorcery to different places to 'spirit' people away or kill them.
Comments
1) Dia!kwain was told this story by his mother (≠kamme-an), 2) pp.5505v & 5506v: see Dia!kwain's explanation of the name which his mother gave him, 3) pp.5506v-5512v: see More about sorcerers, 4) p.5524v: |xam terms for the anointing and smearing of blood from the healer's nose on the patient, 5) See also Falling stars, 6) This story is found in Book V-19
Contributors
Date
11 November 1875 (started)
Categories
Custom and daily life, Healing and ailing
Keywords
sorcerers (about sorcerers and their work) , sorcerers (healers) , sorcerers (rainmakers) , sorcerers (good and bad) , sorcerers (the death of) , sorcerers (attack people at night) , sorcerers (know things) , sorcerers (go about while others sleep) , sorcerers (watch while they sleep) , sorcerers (protect their own people) , sorcerers (their spirit is alive after death) , sorcerers (their blood vessels) , sorcerers (≠xuru) , sorcerers (their thoughts) , sorcerers (when their sorcery falls) , sorcerers (and earthquakes) , sorcerers (earthquakes occur at the time they die) , sorcerers (the smell of) , sorcerers (their magic kills) , sorcerers (about their blood) , sorcerers (and ill people) , sorcerers (their sneezing and snoring of people) , sorcerers (and nosebleeds) , sorcerers (their healing of people) , sorcerers (possession by) , sorcerers ('Bushman doctors') , sorcerers (and 'exorcism') , sorcerers (the 'snoring out' of other sorcerers) , sorcerers (rituals and ceremonies performed by) , sorcerers (strike spirits out) , sorcerers (and spirit-people) , sorcerers (possession by) , sorcerers (their sorcery kills people) , sorcerers (the actions of) , sorcerers (their magic power) , sorcerers (fearing and respecting) , sorcerers (command their sorcery) , sorcerers (at a different place) , sorcerers (the sound their hearts make) , sorcerers (and the rain) , sorcerers (when their hearts fall) , sorcerers (and falling stars) , sorcerers (their hearts go into the waterpit) , sorcerers (rain-) , sorcerers (their work with waterbulls) , sorcerers (angry) , sorcerers (and stars) , sorcerers (and the reason for falling stars) , stars (falling, and dead sorcerers) , falling stars (are the sorcerers' falling hearts) , falling stars (know things and are feared) , falling stars (fall as an omen) , falling stars (and death) , spirit-people (dead sorcerers) , spirit-people (and snoring) , spirit-people (possess and kill people) , snoring (–work of sorcerers) , snoring (of a person possessed by a sorcerer) , snoring (and nasal blood) , snoring (the ritual performed by the sorcerer) , snoring (and spirit-people) , snoring (-out of other sorcerers) , snoring (the wound of possession) , earthquake (and the death of a sorcerer) , death (of sorcerers) , death (and earthquakes) , death (and falling stars) , death (of people killed by sorcerers) , death (and spirit-people) , death (and the falling hearts of sorcerers) , blood (from the nose of a sorcerer) , blood (the sorcerer's snoring work) , blood (the sorcerer's nosebleed) , omen (stars fall as) , omen (and the death of sorcerers) , hearts (of sorcerers fall into the waterpit) , hearts (falling stars are the dead sorcerers') , hearts (the sound the sorcerers' make when falling) , healing (the sorcerers snoring work) , healing (of wounds of possession) , wound (of possession) , wound (and the sorcerers snoring work) , healers (the sorcerer's snoring work) , healers (the ritual performed by the sorcerer) , healers (snoring of a person possessed by a sorcerer) , magic power (of sorcerers) , magic power (of dead sorcerers or spirit–-people) , magic power (and possession) , rainmakers (about sorcerers and their work) , rainmakers (their work with waterbulls) , rainmakers (when they die) , rainmakers (and falling stars) , rainmakers (their hearts fall as rain into waterpits) , rain (rainmakers) , rain (and sorcerers) , rain (the hearts of dead sorcerers fall as rain into waterpits) , rain (the work of sorcerers with waterbulls) , waterpit (the hearts of dead sorcerers fall as rain into waterpits) , waterpit (and sorcerers) , waterbull (and rainmaking) , waterbull (and the work of rainmakers or sorcerers) , waterbull (and sorcerers) , possession (and the sorcerer's snoring work) , possession (the ritual performed by the sorcerer) , possession (snoring of a person possessed by a sorcerer) , possession (and healing) , possession (by spirit-people) , possession (the wound of) , work (about sorcerers and their snoring work and the rain) , sneezing (about sorcerers or healers) , sneezing (and the sorcerer's snoring work)
Story Pages
5506-5536 1/2
