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Story: The story of |kuken-|u |unu
Title
The story of |kuken-|u |unu
Collection
Summary
The story of |kuken-|u |unu (a caterpillar, larva of Aloa) who was formerly a person of the Early Race. |kuken-|u |unu curses a girl and she falls ill. |kuken-|u |unu pretends to die and the girl dies after him and they are buried. The people move to a different watering-hole and |kuken-|u |unu digs up the girl's body and eats her. He follows after the people and repeats this process a number of times, cursing and eating different girls.
Comments
1) p.7306v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his mother (|xabbi-an); |kuken-|u |unu was one of the Early Race of people and therefore ate people; |kuken-|u |unu is also known as the larva of Aloa, or the tiger moth, 2) p.7308v: healing or 'snoring' people, 3) p.7310v: see |harritan, the locust-bird, 4) pp.7312v-7315v: see Concerning the |kuken-|u |unu, which is found abundantly, in Bushmanland, 5) p.7316v: the name of a snake, 6) pp.7360v-7362v: see Manner of carrying firewood, 7) This story is found in Book VIII-15
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
19 August 1878 (started)
Categories
History (Early Race), Healing and ailing
Keywords
caterpillar (in |kuken-|u |unu's song) , caterpillar (|kuken-|u |unu is a tiger moth, larva of Aloa) , caterpillar (called |kuken-|u |unu, who was formerly a person of the Early Race) , |kuken-|u |unu (is a caterpillar, larva of Aloa) , |kuken-|u |unu (lies 'in the old hut') , |kuken-|u |unu ('feigned to be ill') , |kuken-|u |unu (and the ostrich eggshell) , |kuken-|u |unu (the doings of) , |kuken-|u |unu (his things) , |kuken-|u |unu (sings 'O caterpillar') , |kuken-|u |unu (sings to the things) , |kuken-|u |unu (follows the spoor of the people) , |kuken-|u |unu (makes a hut) , |kuken-|u |unu ('scratches out' the buried girls) , |kuken-|u |unu (digs up the buried girls) , |kuken-|u |unu (spits and curses) , |kuken-|u |unu (and the girls who fetch water) , |kuken-|u |unu (kills and eats the girls) , |kuken-|u |unu (was a person of the Early Race) , |kuken-|u |unu (eats fat girls) , |kuken-|u |unu (curses the girl that she might die) , |kuken-|u |unu (eats the girls) , |kuken-|u |unu (pretends to be dead) , Early Race (the First Bushmen, or !xwe ||na ss'o !kui) , Early Race (and |kuken-|u |unu) , Early Race (when |kuken-|u |unu ate the girls) , girls (fat, are cut up, cooked and eaten by |kuken-|u |unu) , girls (who are cursed by |kuken-|u |unu and become ill) , girls (are 'snored') , girls (of the Early Race) , healing ('snoring') , healing (of the girls cursed by |kuken-|u |unu) , ostrich eggshell (|kuken-|u |unu's) , snoring (healing) , snoring (of the girls cursed by |kuken-|u |unu) , curse (|kuken-|u |unu's) , curse (of the girls who become ill and die) , falling hearts (and the death of the girls cursed by |kuken-|u |unu) , burial (of |kuken-|u |unu) , burial (of the girls cursed by |kuken-|u |unu) , fat (girls are eaten by |kuken-|u |unu) , death (customs at) , death (and the burial of |kuken-|u |unu and the girls) , death (the people travel to a 'different place' after) , death (when hearts 'fall' down) , death (customs observed at) , death (leaving the place of) , death (lying in the 'old hut') , place (of death) , place (and the story of |kuken-|u |unu) , place (people travel to a 'different' after death) , hut (the dead body lies 'in the old hut') , hut (of the dead) , hut (and the story of |kuken-|u |unu) , song (sung by |kuken-|u |unu: 'O caterpillar') , burial (of the girls cursed by |kuken-|u |unu) , burial (|kuken-|u |unu digs up the girls' bodies and eats them)
Story Pages
7307-7363
