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Story: The Vultures and their elder sister
Title
The Vultures and their elder sister
Collection
Summary
The Vultures, their elder sister (who was a girl of the early race), and her husband. By/|han≠kass’o (LVIII.-27. 8351-8373). The Vultures make a woman (of the Early Race) their elder sister and live with her at her house. The elder sister's husband (a man of the Early Race) scolds the Vultures for devouring all the food, and the next day his wife goes with him to the hunting-ground, where she must eat (as his sisters-in-law eat everything at home). The Vultures look for food and see a springbok lying on the ground. They eat the dead springbok, looking around them (for the husband) as they do so, and leave meat for their elder sister, who approaches.
Comments
1) p.8351opp: |han≠kass'o heard this from his mother (|xabbi-an), 2) p.8352v: the Vultures probably used their hands to take the skin, as they are people, 3) This story is found in Book VIII-27
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
8 – 11 April 1879
Categories
Keywords
Vultures (and their elder sister) , Vultures (are cursed by the elder sister's husband) , Vultures (are scolded) , Vultures (eat all the meat, leaving none) , Vultures (accounting for their behaviour and eating habits) , Vultures (when the Vultures of the Early Race ascended and became birds) , Early Race (or the First Bushmen) , Early Race (the cursing of the Vultures) , Early Race (the Vultures and their elder sister are people of) , woman (the elder sister of the Vultures) , woman (and her husband) , woman (a person of the Early Race) , woman (shared her food with her Vulture sisters) , woman (her husband curses her Vulture sisters) , woman (the Vultures eat her springbok) , woman (the Vultures leave for her a dead springbok) , springbok (that lies on the ground is eaten by vultures) , springbok (eaten as carrion) , springbok (hunted by the elder sister's husband) , springbok (eaten by the Vultures) , springbok (the Vultures and their elder sister) , transformation (when people became animals) , transformation (when the Vultures ascended and became birds) , transformation (the Vultures and their elder sister) , bones (vultures leave them behind) , bones (the eating habits of vultures) , bones (the Vultures and their elder sister) , curse (of the Vultures who become birds) , curse (the elder sister's husband curses the Vultures)
Story Pages
8351-8373
