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Story: !nu !numma-!kuiten

Title

!nu !numma-!kuiten

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

!nu!numma–!kuíten, who fetches crying children. By /han≠kass’o (L VIII.-29. 8555-8560). Parents threaten their misbehaving children with !nu !numma-!kuiten (or 'White Mouth'), who kills children who cry.

Comments

1) p.8554v: |han≠kass'o heard this from his maternal grandfather (Tsatsi); what !nu !numma and !kuiten means, 2) See Spoken of a parrot in the village of Mowbray, 3) This story is found in Book VIII-29

Contributors

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Date

24 – 25 June 1879

Categories

Custom and daily life

Keywords

!nu !numma-!kuiten (or White Mouth) , !nu !numma-!kuiten (what |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi told him about) , !nu !numma-!kuiten (accounting for his name) , !nu !numma-!kuiten (swallows meat and eggs whole) , !nu !numma-!kuiten (was formerly a beast of prey) , !nu !numma-!kuiten (fetches and kills children who cry) , !nu !numma-!kuiten (parents threaten children with) , !nu !numma-!kuiten (and !kotta koe, who was a man) , children (who misbehave, threatened with !nu !numma-!kuiten) , children (who cry are killed and eaten by !nu !numma-!kuiten) , beast of prey (fetches kills children who cry) , beast of prey (!nu !numma-!kuiten was formerly a) , personal history (what |han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi told him about !nu !numma-!kuiten) , |han≠kass'o (what his grandfather Tsatsi told him about !nu !numma-!kuiten) , name (why !nu !numma-!kuiten is called 'White Mouth')

Story Pages

8555-8560

Page Images

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