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Story: About locusts

Title

About locusts

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

When a swarm of locusts comes flying past the people must go to the place where the locusts settle and make fire. The rainmaker, |kannu, grew locusts and gave them to the people.

Comments

1) Date on p.6640: 10 April; p.6673: 15 May, 2) pp.6639v-6646v: see |kannu the rain sorcerer, 3) p.6652v: see The hail is the rain's legs, 4) p.6672v: see The ||kerri bird and locusts, 5) p.6679v: see Gambro or |kui and its ill-effects, 6) See also The girl who made locusts, 7) This story is found in Book VIII-7

Contributors

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Date

April – May 1878

Categories

Custom and daily life, The Rain and Rain's water

Keywords

locust (and the times of day) , locust (and sorcerers) , locust (preserving its legs) , locust (and gambro) , locust (the seeking and collecting of) , locust (picking it up properly) , locust (and birds and jackals) , locust ('locust-thirst') , locust (its eggs) , locust (a description of a 'body' or swarm) , locust (the male and female parts of the swarm) , locust (grown, created by the rainmaker |kannu) , locust (drinking water and collecting it) , locust ('leaving alone') , locust (the eating of) , locust (things that frighten it away) , locust (respecting) , locust (the treatment of) , locust (avoidance behaviour relating to) , locust (burning and killing) , locust (and bushes) , locust (what people call out to it) , locust (and |kui sse) , locust (and sunset) , locust (the actions and habits of) , locust (the coming of) , locust (places where it settles) , locust (fires must be made at the place where locusts settle) , sorcerers (and locusts) , sorcerers (|kannu the rainmaker) , sorcerers (rain–sorcerers) , food (seeking and collecting locusts) , food (|kannu the rainmaker created locusts and gave them to the people) , name (called by the people to the locust) , name (of edible plants) , name (gambro or |kui) , name (of a plant, |kui sse) , name (of a rainmaker, |kannu) , respect (for locusts) , respect (what people call out to the locust) , respect (picking the locust up properly) , respect (preserving the locust's legs) , water (drinking and collecting locusts) , water (locust-thirst) , insect (about locusts) , |kannu (the rainmaker) , |kannu (his behaviour) , |kannu (gives locusts to the people) , |kannu ('is an old man') , |kannu (his 'decayed' arm) , |kannu (owns locusts) , |kannu (grows locusts) , |kannu (and the creation of locusts) , rain (its liquid or dew) , rain (and locusts) , rain (making fires when it is wet) , rain (|kannu the rainmaker created locusts) , fires (must be made at the place where the locusts settle) , fires (making) , fires (and locusts) , fires (making them when it rains) , thirst (locust–thirst) , thirst (kills) , thirst (the ill-effects of) , thirst (headaches from) , thirst (and collecting locusts) , gambro (or |kui) , gambro (the ill-effects of) , gambro ('fights' and kills people) , creation (of locusts by |kannu the rainmaker) , illness (caused by locust–thirst) , illness (caused by eating gambro) , illness (headache) , illness (and collecting locusts) , rainmaker (called |kannu created locusts and gave them to the people) , rainmaker (sorcerers and locusts)

Story Pages

6625-6686

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