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Story: Porcupine hunting
Title
Porcupine hunting
Collection
Summary
A description of porcupine hunting, in which the moonlight is of service, follows [The Mantis makes an eland] (L VIII.-6. 6506-6595 1/2). A story about the hunting of porcupine. The hunters see the porcupine coming from a distance while they sit waiting at its hole at night in the moonlight. When the porcupine reaches its hole, the hunters spring on it with their sticks and beat it to death because they fear its quills.
Comments
1) Date on p.6591: 7 April, 2) This story was translated by Dorothea Bleek in 1914, 3) p.6582v: the name of the Milky Way; a bush used by Bastaards to make soup, 4) p.6590v: a root eaten by porcupines but not by people; the best parts of the porcupine's meat are not given to women to eat, 5) pp.6590v-6594v: see Mode of eating porcupine, 6) This story is found in Book VIII-6
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
April 1878
Categories
Keywords
porcupine (hunting) , porcupine (the burning of its quill) , porcupine (hunters fear its quills) , porcupine (hunters beat it to death) , porcupine ('gives its back') , porcupine (intends to prick with its quills) , porcupine (its nature and habits) , porcupine (its 'tail's rattles') , porcupine (is feared) , porcupine (and the moonlight) , porcupine (its quills) , porcupine (comes at night) , porcupine (its hole) , porcupine (male and female) , hunting (of porcupine) , hunting (methods) , hunting (and waiting for the porcupine) , hunting (at night) , hunting (in the moonlight) , Moon (and hunting porcupine) , Moon (hunting porcupine in the moonlight)
Story Pages
6583-6595 1/2
