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Story: Doings of the Mantis when the eland has been wounded
Title
Doings of the Mantis when the eland has been wounded
Collection
Summary
An account of the doings of the Mantis when an Eland has been wounded. The protection afforded by the Mantis to the Eland is also alluded by Díä!kwãin, in 'Rules to be observed when an Eland has been shot, etc.' (L VIII.-23. 8033-8039). When an eland has been wounded, |kaggen (the Mantis) is angry with the people (he 'does not love us if we kill an eland'). He does various things to trouble the man who shot the eland and thus make the eland get up and live and not die from its wounds. Also, when the people shoot gemsbok, hares appear, and if people shoot the hares then the gemsbok will recover and live.
Comments
1) p.8032v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his maternal grandfather (Tsatsi), 2) pp.8037v-8038v: |kaggen loves the gemsbok and becomes a hare so that hunters will shoot him instead of the game, 3) See also The Mantis turned into a hartebeest and The hartebeest and the eland belong to the Mantis, 4) This story is found in Book VIII-23
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
November/December 1878
Categories
|kaggen (the Mantis), Custom and daily life
Keywords
|kaggen (the Mantis) , |kaggen (was formerly killed to save the game) , |kaggen (became a wounded hartebeest) , |kaggen (and his hares) , |kaggen (loves and protects the game) , |kaggen (is invisible) , |kaggen ('does not love us if we kill an eland') , |kaggen (troubles the hunter) , |kaggen (first made the eland and then the hartebeest) , |kaggen (feels the bowstring) , |kaggen (troubles the man who shoots the eland) , |kaggen (strikes the eland's horn) , |kaggen (his doings when an eland has been wounded) , |kaggen (wants the eland to live) , |kaggen (wants the gemsbok to live) , |kaggen (loves the eland and the hartebeest) , |kaggen (pinches the man's ear) , |kaggen (his actions) , |kaggen (makes the people kill him) , |kaggen (makes the man exclaim) , |kaggen (does not love the gemsbok) , |kaggen (becomes a hare) , eland (|kaggen's) , eland (|kaggen and the man who shoots it) , eland (|kaggen strikes its horn) , eland (vomits from poison) , eland (a man's exclaiming makes it live) , eland (its 'death's urine') , eland (is |kaggen's thing) , eland (|kaggen created it) , eland (and hartebeest are loved by |kaggen) , eland (|kaggen 'does not love us if we kill an eland') , eland (and hartebeest are |kaggen's things) , eland (dying from poison) , eland (doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded) , poison (the actions of on the wounded game) , poison (makes the animal vomit) , poison (the eland recovers from and lives) , poison (that attacks the eland's 'heart's-arteries') , poison (and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded) , bowstring (|kaggen feels that of the bow that shot the eland) , bowstring (and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded) , hartebeest (|kaggen formerly became a wounded one) , hartebeest (|kaggen first made the eland and then the hartebeest) , hartebeest (|kaggen loves the eland and the hartebeest) , hartebeest (and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded) , gemsbok (when one is shot hares appear) , gemsbok (feel that the hare is |kaggen) , gemsbok (and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded) , hares (killing one makes the gemsbok live) , hares (they appear when game has been shot) , hares (|kaggen becomes one so men can shoot and kill him) , hares (seem tame) , hares ('wish that we may kill them') , hares (and doings of the |kaggen when the eland has been wounded) , hunting (observances when an eland has been shot) , hunting (killing hare makes gemsbok live) , hunting (the doings of |kaggen when an eland, game has been wounded)
Story Pages
8033-8039
