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Story: Children do not say the lion's name at night
Title
Children do not say the lion's name at night
Collection
Summary
The children call the lion different names by day and by night and wish to avoid insulting (or slighting it).
Comments
1) See also The lion has the power of turning itself into other things and A wild cat, when many have been killed by a person changes itself into a lion and kills the slayer, 2) This story is found in Book VIII-23
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
28 December 1878
Categories
Keywords
lion (comes to fight with us) , lion (the darkness is its shadow) , lion (called |kerre-|e) , lion (the 'thing whose head's darkness it is') , lion (the shadow of its head at night) , lion (children do not say its name at night) , lion (goes by night) , lion (is feared) , lion (what the people call it) , lion (why it kills people when they are grown-ups) , lion (the actions and habits of) , lion (calling its name) , lion (prohibitions regarding the saying of its name) , lion (respecting) , lion (insulting or slighting it by saying its name) , lion (children slight it by saying its name) , lion (does not kill children) , lion (waits for a child to grow up before killing it) , lion (attacks grown-ups) , name (avoiding saying the lion's) , name (children do not say the lion's at night) , name (lion is called |kerre-|e) , name (what to call the lion) , name (respecting the lion's) , children (do not say the lion's name at night) , children (the lion waits for them to grow up before killing them) , children (what happens when they slight the lion by saying its name) , children (what they call the lion at night) , children (must respect the lion's name) , avoidance (of saying the lion's name at night) , fight (lion comes to, with us) , fight (and saying the lion's name at night) , night (children do not say the lion's name at) , night (the doings of lions at) , night (the darkness is the lion's shadow) , night (the lion or 'thing whose head's darkness it is') , night (the shadow of the lion's head at night) , shadow (of the lion's head at night) , shadow (and how children do not say the lion's name at night)
Story Pages
8075v-8076v, 8078v