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Story: The Lizard, the Mice and the Mantis (includes the song of the Agama lizard)
Title
The Lizard, the Mice and the Mantis (includes the song of the Agama lizard)
Collection
Summary
The !kháü (a lizard of the genus Agama) and his daughter, the Mice, and the Mantis. By /han≠kass’o (L VIII.30. 8671-8702, 31. 8703-8736). The !khau (Agama lizard) tricks a series of Long-nosed Mice, hitting them on the head with a stick and taking their springbok to feed his daughter. |kaggen (the Mantis) dreams that the !khau is killing the Mice and tells the Striped Mouse. The Striped Mouse goes and hunts near to where the other Mice had been hunting. The !khau calls over the Striped Mouse, who tricks him in the same way that the !khau had tricked the other mice, and sets his companions free by killing the !khau.
Comments
1) p.8672v: translated by Dorothea Bleek from August 1919, 2) p.8670v: |han≠kass'o heard this from his maternal grandmother (≠kammi); the !khau is a lizard of the genus Agama, 3) pp.8671 and 8672: the song of the Agama lizard, 4) p.8681v: on the term meaning 'hill's man', 5) p.8708v: words and sentences, 6) p.8727v: making different clicks (lateral, cerebral, palatal and dental), 7) p.8728v: names for and descriptions of flowers and stones, 8) See also The Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and the Mantis, or why the (black) Wildebeest has a white or light coloured tail and The Mantis, the Mice and the Beetle, 9) This story is found in Books VIII-30 and VIII-31
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
6 August 1879 (started)
Categories
Keywords
Mice (Long-nosed) , Mice (Striped) , Mice (and |kaggen's dream) , Mice (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , |kaggen (the Mantis) , |kaggen (the Lizard, the Mice and) , |kaggen (predicts things in his dreams) , |kaggen (predicts the death of the !khau) , |kaggen (dreams that the !khau is killing the Long-nosed Mice) , |kaggen (advises the Striped Mouse about defeating the !khau) , |kaggen (sends the Striped Mouse to help the Long-nosed Mice) , |kaggen (and the song of the Agama lizard) , Long-nosed Mice (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , Long-nosed Mice (the place where they go hunting about) , Long-nosed Mice (drink from the decayed stomach) , Long-nosed Mice (their resurrection) , Long-nosed Mice (follow the springbok) , Long-nosed Mice (daughter of helps the Striped Mouse) , Long-nosed Mice (daughter of marries the Striped Mouse) , Long-nosed Mice (are tricked and killed by the !khau) , Long-nosed Mice (fear the !khau) , Long-nosed Mice (go into the !khau's hole) , Long-nosed Mice (do not return home from hunting) , Long-nosed Mice (the place where they disappeared) , Long-nosed Mice (and |kaggen's dream) , Long-nosed Mice (the Striped Mouse rescues) , Long-nosed Mice (return to life when the Striped Mouse kills the !khau) , Striped Mouse (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , Striped Mouse (defies the !khau) , Striped Mouse (is clever) , Striped Mouse (is advised by |kaggen) , Striped Mouse (is sent by |kaggen to rescue the Long-nosed Mice) , Striped Mouse (and |kaggen's dream) , Striped Mouse (tricks and kills the !khau and releases the Long-nosed Mice) , Striped Mouse (drinks from the new stomach) , Striped Mouse (resurrects the Long-nosed Mice) , Striped Mouse ('smells different') , Striped Mouse (marries the !khau's daughter) , !khau (the Agama lizard) , !khau (and the song of the Agama lizard) , !khau (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , !khau (his daughter) , !khau (tricks and kills the Long-nosed Mice) , !khau (is tricked and killed by the Striped Mouse) , !khau (and |kaggen's dream) , !khau (lies in the Driedoorn tree) , !khau (calls to the Mice) , !khau (kills the Long-nosed Mouse's springbok) , springbok (the !khau kills those hunted by the Long-nosed Mice) , springbok (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , tree (thorn) , tree (Driedoorn, or !nabba) , tree (in which the !khau lies and sings) , tree (the song of the Agama lizard) , tree (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , hole (of the !khau) , hole (and things which are singing) , hole (and the !khau who kills the Long-nosed Mice) , hole (the !khau's manner of coming out of) , hole (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , song (of the !khau or Agama lizard) , song ('The lizard lies on the thorn tree') , song (and the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , stick (the !khau's) , stick (with which the !khau beats the Long-nosed Mice) , stick (the !khau is killed with his own) , stick (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , dream (|kaggen's) , dream (in which |kaggen predicts things) , dream (in which |kaggen predicts the death of the !khau) , dream (|kaggen's, that the !khau is killing the Long-nosed Mice) , dream (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , name (a lizard of the genus Agama or !khau) , name (a thorn–tree called Driedoorn, or !nabba) , name (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , name (the song of the Agama lizard) , Agama lizard (song of) , Agama lizard (or !khau) , Agama lizard (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen) , Agama lizard (the song of the Agama lizard) , lizard (of the genus Agama or !khau) , lizard (the song of the Agama lizard) , lizard (the Lizard, the Mice and |kaggen)
Story Pages
8671-8702, 8703-8736
