How an old woman asked a chameleon for rain

How an old woman asked a chameleon for rain

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

≠kasin (Klaas Katkop) (IV)

<i>How an old woman asked a Chameleon for rain, and knew, from its way of looking, that rain would fall; as it indeed did that very night. In the Katkop dialect, by ≠kásin, who heard it from his mother (L IV.-3. 3701-3737).</i>

1) Date on p.3732: 19 January 1874, 2) p.3706v:

story

29 December 1873 - January 1874

The Rain and Rain's water

Plants and animals

rain ( how an old woman asked a chameleon for )

rain ( and wind )

rain ( and drinking-water )

rain ( brings food )

rain ( collecting rain-water )

rain ( custom and behaviour when it rains )

rain ( and thunder and lightning )

rain ( and bleeding noses )

rain ( and plants and bushes )

rain ( its things or its animals )

rain ( and chameleon )

rain ( its smell )

rain ( and great tortoise )

rain ( rain-clouds )

tortoise ( great )

tortoise ( how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain )

great tortoise ( how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain )

great tortoise ( the cooking and eating of )

great tortoise ( cooked by the children )

great tortoise ( and rain )

great tortoise ( its shell used for collecting rain-water )

great tortoise ( and old woman's children )

great tortoise ( a rain's thing )

old woman ( who asked chameleon for rain )

plants ( parts of )

plants ( edible )

plants ( and rain )

plants ( that are rain's things )

plants ( the names of different )

plants ( and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain )

chameleon ( and rain )

chameleon ( an old woman asks it for rain )

chameleon ( brings rain )

chameleon ( its colour and rain )

chameleon ( a rain's thing )

food ( rain brings )

food ( the cooking and eating of tortoise )

food ( names of edible plants )

food ( eating the rain's things )

food ( and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain )

animals ( the rain's things )

animals ( and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain )

plants ( and bushes and the rain )

plants ( and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain )

wind ( and rain )

wind ( and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain )

names ( of plants )

names ( of the rain's things )

names ( and how an old woman asked a chameleon for rain )

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