Title

The Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

The Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx, and the Partridge, by lhan≠kass’o (L VIII.-29. 8561-8602). An Anteater (a person of the Early Race) steals a female Springbok child and disappears into her hole. The Lynx tells the young Springbok (named !khoukau) that the Anteater is not her real mother and they leave together, but the Partridge sees them and tells the Anteater. The Anteater follows after the two, under the ground, popping her head up sometimes to see where they are. The Lynx makes a loop with his bowstring and throws it around the neck of the Anteater, pulling her from the ground. The Anteater curses the Lynx, saying that he shall be a Lynx and go about by night. The Lynx curses the Anteater, saying that she shall be an anteater by night.

Comments

1) p.8560v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his mother (|xabbi-an), his maternal grandmother (≠kammi), and his step-grandmother (Tuai-an); see The song of the Springbok mothers, 2) p.8568v: a kaross in which children are carried:, 3) p.8571v: on the 'Bushmen's cursing', 4) p.8576v: a |xam term for conspiracy (or intrigue), 5) p.8584v: another name for a man called Jacob Bastard; see An eruptive illness called !hamman-xu, 6) pp.8585v-8586v: see Avoiding where the jackal or the hyena have passed water, 7) p.8601v: the Crieboom, or ||kana tree, and the Doornboom, or !khou tree, 8) See also The Anteater's story or The Anteater, Springbok, Lynx and Partridge, 9) This story is found in Book VIII-29

Contributors

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Date

26 June 1879 (started)

Categories

History (Early Race)

Keywords

Early Race (or the First Bushmen) , Early Race (the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge are people of) , Early Race (the Anteater's curse) , Springbok (young Springbok or !khoukau) , Springbok (young Springbok is raised by the Anteater) , Springbok (young Springbok is rescued by the Lynx) , Springbok (young Springbok marries the Lynx) , Springbok (young Springbok is taken and adopted by the Anteater) , Springbok (the plot to rescue young Springbok by the Lynx and his people) , Springbok (which has a navel) , Springbok (accounting for the springbok's hooves) , Springbok (the mother-) , Springbok (-husband cleaves his wife's foot) , Springbok (who is foolish, tells the Anteater her child is female) , Springbok (who are clever, tell the Anteater their children are male) , Lynx (and the Anteater, the young Springbok and the Partridge) , Lynx (and the plot to rescue the young Springbok) , Lynx (is cunning) , Lynx (rescues and marries the young Springbok) , Lynx (deceives the Anteater) , Lynx (curses and is cursed by the Anteater) , Lynx (will become a lynx and walk at night) , Lynx (the nature and habits of the lynx) , Partridge (the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and) , Partridge (tells the Anteater that her daughter has run away) , Partridge (is the Anteater's friend, or mate) , Leopard (and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge) , Leopard (and the plot to rescue the young Springbok) , Leopard (is one of the Lynx's people) , Leopard (says that the Lynx must marry the young Springbok) , Cat (and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge) , Cat (and the plot to rescue the young Springbok) , Cat (is one of the Lynx's people) , Cat (is not cunning) , Anteater (and the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge) , Anteater (her curse) , Anteater (her hole) , Anteater (wants a female Springbok child) , Anteater (curses and is cursed by the Lynx) , Anteater (accounting for the nature and habits of the anteater) , Anteater (goes under the ground) , Anteater (will go at night) , Anteater (deceives the foolish Springbok mother) , Anteater (is caught by the Lynx) , curse (of the Anteater) , curse (of the Lynx) , curse (and the ætiology of animal behaviour and appearance) , curse (and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge) , animals (accounting for their behaviour and appearance) , animals (their doings and the Anteater's curse) , animals (and the Anteater, the young Springbok, the Lynx and the Partridge) , name (of the young Springbok is !khoukau)

Story Pages

8561-8602

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