Respect for the mantis

Respect for the mantis

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Tamme (XII)

The people in Tamme's country respect the mantis (||gan-a) and do not eat it. A person who eats the mantis dies.

1) This story is found in Book XI & XII-9

story

22 March 1880

Custom and daily life

mantis ( respect for )

mantis ( Tamme's people respect it )

mantis ( or ||gan-a )

mantis ( is not eaten )

mantis ( customs relating to )

mantis ( eating it results in death )

mantis ( a prohibition against eating it )

mantis ( !kun name of )

food ( avoidances )

food ( the eating of the mantis is forbidden )

food ( eating the mantis causes death )

death ( eating the mantis results in )

!kun ( people in Tamme's country respect the mantis and do not eat it )

country ( people in Tamme's respect the mantis and do not eat it )

name ( !kun, for the mantis )

name ( the mantis is called ||gan-a )

respect ( of Tamme's people for the mantis )

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