How a lion carried off ≠kasin's eldest brother and wounded his father

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Title

How a lion carried off ≠kasin's eldest brother and wounded his father

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

≠kasin (Klaas Katkop) (IV)

Summary

<i>How a Lion carried off the narrator's eldest brother, and wounded his father. In the Katkop dialect, by ≠kásin (L IV.-1. 3453-3458).</i>

Comments

1) p.3452v: this incident occurred when 'Klaas' (≠kasin) was only about '3 and a half feet high' (when they were boys), 2) p.3453v: the child who was taken was ≠kasin's oldest brother, 3) p.3456v: the curative powers and preparation of Ssho |oa (or sso |a) which is burnt and rubbed with fat and smeared on the affected area, 4) This story is found in Book IV-1

Type

story

Date

5 November 1873

Category

History (personal)

Healing and ailing

Keyword

personal history ( of ≠kasin )

personal history ( ≠kasin's father and brother and the lion )

≠kasin ( Klaas Katkop )

≠kasin ( his personal history )

≠kasin ( his father and brother and lion )

lion ( and ≠kasin's brother and father )

lion ( that carried off ≠kasin's eldest brother and wounded his father )

healing ( lion bites )

healing ( of ≠kasin's father )

healing ( with Ssho |oa )

Ssho |oa ( and treatment of lion bites )

Ssho |oa ( as healing remedy )

plant ( medicinal )

plant ( Ssho |oa used to heal ≠kasin's father's lion bites )

death ( of ≠kasin's brother carried off by a lion )

Story Pages

3453-3458

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