Notebooks
Story: Flood at Victoria West
Title
Flood at Victoria West
Collection
Summary
|han≠kass'o relates the story of the flood at Victoria West, observed by ≠kuken-an and |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken (Sara), who were both at Victoria West at the time it happened. The rain carried all the things and the people away down the river bed and some where crushed by collapsing houses.
Comments
1) This story is found in Book VIII-23
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
24 November 1878
Categories
History (personal), The Rain and Rain's water
Keywords
rain (darkness's) , rain (that comes at night) , rain (its 'bell' that kills people) , rain (caused by sorcery) , rain (its 'pot' which fell on Victoria West) , rain (and the flood at Victoria West) , rain (its body) , rain (its body parts) , rain (angry) , rain (killing) , rain (which kills people) , rain (and 'sorcery's bell') , rain (which carried away houses, people, animals and things in Victoria West) , sorcery's bell (a rain which kills people) , sorcery's bell (and the flood at Victoria West) , place (Victoria West) , place (flood at Victoria West) , flood (and the rain's 'pot' which fell on Victoria West) , flood (caused by sorcery) , flood (sorcery's bell) , flood (at Victoria West) , |han≠kass'o (his personal history) , |han≠kass'o (his late wife, Ssuobba-||ken, and the flood at Victoria West) , water (people say that it 'runs carrying away all the things') , water (and the flood at Victoria West) , water (carried away houses, people, animals and things in Victoria West) , sorcery (sorcery's bell and the flood at Victoria West) , personal history (|han≠kass'o's late wife, Ssuobba-||ken, and the flood at Victoria West) , names (of |xam who experienced the flood at Victoria West) , names (|han≠kass'o's late wife was Ssuobba-||ken or Sara)
Story Pages
8011-8017