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Story: The maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain (and causes lightning)
Title
The maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain (and causes lightning)
Collection
Summary
We should not allow a maiden to snap her fingers at us; the wrath of the Rain against us being thereby aroused. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-20. 5618-5622, 5624). An account of the maiden who snaps her fingers at the people, which makes the rain 'lighten' and try to kill them. The rain 'shoots' at the people when the girl shouts at them.
Comments
1) p.5617v: Dia!kwain heard this from his father (Xaa-ttin); a note about a man called ||kunn, or Koos Groot-Aug (?), including details about where he lived and a tree that grows there, 2) p.5618v: a certain tree and the location of the 'pits' in the Zak River, 3) See also The girl who snaps her fingers at her parents and the rain, 4) This story is found in Book V-20
Contributors
Date
20 – 21 December 1875
Categories
New maidens, The Rain and Rain's water
Keywords
rain (a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes lightning) , rain ('shoots' people) , rain ('shoots' like a girl does) , rain (and bad weather) , rain (and the actions of a new maiden) , rain (imitates the maiden's speech) , rain (what happens when it is angry) , rain (and lightning and thunder) , rain (people speak to) , rain (gentle) , rain ('killing') , rain (and the maiden who snapped her fingers) , rain (snapping fingers and lightning) , rain (and related weather) , rain (resembles what the maiden did to the people) , rain (different types of) , rain (prohibitions relating to) , new maiden (a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes lightning) , new maiden (the rain shoots like she does) , new maiden (her behaviour and the people's fortunes) , new maiden (who snaps her fingers at the rain) , new maiden (and the rain) , new maiden (who angers the rain) , new maiden (the rain imitates her) , new maiden (causes bad weather) , new maiden (makes a 'killing' rain) , new maiden (prohibitions regarding behaviour) , speech (and actions of the new maiden) , speech (a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes lightning) , speech (rain imitates the maiden's) , lightning (a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes) , lightning (and an angry or 'killing' rain) , lightning (rain 'shoots' like a girl does)
Story Pages
5618-5622, 5624
