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Story: The !gwiten who was niggardly to his wife
Title
The !gwiten who was niggardly to his wife
Collection
Summary
The Wild Dog (or !gwiten) is stingy ('niggardly') to his wife (when they were people of the Early Race). He gives his wife the lean male pig, but takes the fat sow for himself, and she becomes thinner and thinner. She makes soup for her brothers, using the lean meat and not the fat. The Wild Dog tells his wife she must cook the sow's meat for them, because her brothers are not used to eating what she is making for them. The wife refuses.
Comments
1) p.8215v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his maternal grandmother (≠kammi), 2) p.8230v: see The !k'anni is an ornament worn by men and women, 3) This story is found in Book VIII-25
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
7 February 1879 (story given on or about)
Categories
Keywords
Wild Dog (feared his brother-in-law's anger at his stinginess) , Wild Dog (who was mean with food) , Wild Dog (and his wife are people of the Early Race) , Wild Dog (the !gwiten) , Wild Dog (who was 'niggardly' to his wife with food) , Wild Dog (who gave his wife lean boar's meat) , Wild Dog (who starved his wife) , Wild Dog (and his brother's-in-law) , Wild Dog (ate fat sow's meat) , Early Race (or the First Bushmen) , Early Race (the Wild Dog and his wife are people of) , Early Race (the !gwiten who was 'niggardly' to his wife) , brothers (of the Wild Dog's wife) , brothers (are angry at their little sister's leanness) , brothers (–in–law of the !gwiten who was 'niggardly' to his wife) , food (stinginess with) , food (the Wild Dog, or !gwiten, who was 'niggardly' to his wife with) , food (lean meat and fat) , name (wild dog is !gwiten) , name (the !gwiten who was 'niggardly' to his wife)
Story Pages
8216-8231
