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Story: Concerning apparitions (or How, when the first wife of Dia!kwain was buried, those returning to their homes saw the apparition of a little child)
Title
Concerning apparitions (or How, when the first wife of Dia!kwain was buried, those returning to their homes saw the apparition of a little child)
Collection
Summary
Apparition seen by the party returning from the burial of the narrator’s wife; followed by the account of an apparition seen, on another occasion, by the narrator’s brother–in–law. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-22. 5810, 23. 5811-5832). Dia!kwain and his people were returning from burying his wife when they saw an apparition that resembled Dia!kwain's wife. He believed it to be something that appears at the time when sorcerers take people away. Dia!kwain's brother-in-law, Mansse, also saw an apparition on the hunting-ground. Apparitions resemble people in some ways, but are also different.
Comments
1) p.5809v: 'A personal adventure – Related by Dia!kwain', 2) This story is found in Books V-22 and V-23
Contributors
Date
3 January 1876 (started)
Categories
History (personal), Custom and daily life
Keywords
Dia!kwain (his brother-in-law, Mansse) , Dia!kwain (his personal history) , Dia!kwain (his place) , Dia!kwain (and the apparition of a little child) , Dia!kwain (sees an apparition returning from his wife's funeral) , Dia!kwain (his relations) , Dia!kwain (the names of his relations) , names (of Dia!kwain's relations) , names (and the apparition seen after Dia!kwain's wife's funeral) , apparition (|xam beliefs about) , apparition (or ghost) , apparition (the appearance of) , apparition (accounting for the appearance of) , apparition (is the different part of a person) , apparition (does not want to go away and leave people) , apparition (wants to be seen) , apparition (takes off its skin) , apparition (is the part that thinks of people) , apparition (teachings about) , apparition (and sorcerers) , apparition (the forms it takes) , apparition (resembles a person) , apparition (is a thing which is different) , apparition (and death) , apparition (on the salt pan) , apparition (and Dia!kwain) , apparition (which resembled Dia!kwain's wife) , apparition (seen by Mansse) , apparition (of a child) , apparition (seen after Dia!kwain's wife's funeral) , apparition (when they appear) , apparition (appears when sorcerers carry person quite away) , apparition (its outer skin looks at people) , skin (taken off by the apparition) , skin (apparition's outer skin looks at people) , teachings (about apparitions) , death (and apparitions) , death (what happens after) , death (people change form after) , death (taking off the skin after) , death (people become a different thing after) , death (and spirits) , death (and ancestors) , death (and seeing the dead) , death (the forms the dead take) , death (and the actions of sorcerers) , sorcerers (apparitions appear when they carry a person quite away) , sorcerers (and concerning apparitions) , sorcerers (their actions) , sorcerers (are angry people) , sorcerers (take the dead away) , personal history (of Dia!kwain and his relations) , personal history (the apparition seen after Dia!kwain's wife's funeral) , ancestors (concerning apparitions) , ancestors (and what happens after death) , ancestors (and the apparition seen by Dia!kwain and his people when returning from his wife's funeral) , funeral (of Dia!kwain's first wife) , funeral (the apparition seen after Dia!kwain's wife's) , ghost (concerning apparitions) , ghost (the apparition seen after Dia!kwain's wife's funeral)
Story Pages
5810, 5811-5832
