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Story: ||xuobbeten and the lion

Title

||xuobbeten and the lion

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

||xuobbeten is carried away by the lion while she sleeps. It bites her head and kills her. It puts her in its mouth and carries her down to the water. The people name the water '||xuobbeten' because it has no bushes.

Comments

1) p.7217v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his father-in-law (||kabbo), 2) p.7219v: see The !kwana thorn tree, 3) See p.7215v for further details about ||xuobbeten, 4) This story is found in Book VIII-14

Contributors

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Date

14 July 1878

Categories

History (personal)

Keywords

lion (||xuobbeten and) , lion (takes ||xuobbeten to the waterpit) , name (of the waterpit is ||xuobbeten) , name (accounting for the giving of one to a waterpit) , name (for water that has no bushes) , waterpit (accounting for the naming of) , waterpit (that has no bushes) , waterpit (and ||xuobbeten and the lion) , waterpit (called ||xuobbeten)

Story Pages

7218-7220

Page Images

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_089

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_089

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_089