About new maidens (continued from Bleek's Book XXVII: p.2618)

About new maidens (continued from Bleek's Book XXVII: p.2618)

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

A note has been made, from ||kábbo's information, of a story not yet written down in Bushman, telling how the Rain carried off a girl belonging to the First Bushmen (or the ancient people living before the Bushmen), who afterwards became a frog, her kaross being changed into a springbok, etc. Her people were also transformed. (L II.-37. 3335 rev. and 3336 rev.)-Versions of this transformation into frogs, ascribed chiefly to a new Maiden's acts of disobedience, are given in the Katkop dialect by !kwéiten ta ||kên (L VI.-1. 3930-3958), and by Dia!kwãin. (B XXVII. 2609-2618, continued in L V.-2. 3864-3881). A continuation of a previous story about new maidens (taken in W. Bleek's Book XXVII) in which a new maiden is punished and transformed into a frog when she goes to wash at the spring. This segment of the story accounts for the seclusion of the new maiden in a hut and describes related customs.

1) This is a continuation of Bleek's story

story

7 January 1875 (started)

New maidens

The Rain and Rain's water

Transformation

Custom and daily life

new maiden ( about new maidens )

new maiden ( and rain )

new maiden ( the new young girl )

new maiden ( how she eats and drinks )

new maiden ( who deceived her mother )

new maiden ( who cares for by her )

new maiden ( prohibitions regarding )

new maiden ( the new maiden who is carried off by the Rain and becomes a frog )

new maiden ( went into well )

new maiden ( angers the Water )

new maiden ( her smell )

new maiden ( customs relating to treatment of )

new maiden ( about )

new maiden ( her transformation )

new maiden ( and the spring )

new maiden ( is punished by the Water )

new maiden ( the seclusion of )

new maiden ( and water-pit )

new maiden ( drinks and eats moderately )

Water ( the rain's liquid )

Water ( dislikes new maidens )

Water ( is angry with new maiden )

Water ( transforms new maidens )

Water ( punishes new maidens )

Water ( dislikes odour of new maidens )

Water ( changes girl into a frog )

Water ( and the water-pit, spring )

reed ( which new maiden drinks through )

rain ( the Rain, the Water, the spring )

rain ( about new maidens )

rain ( its liquid )

rain ( and rain's water )

rain ( dislikes new maidens )

rain ( is angry with new maiden )

rain ( transforms new maidens )

rain ( punishes new maidens )

rain ( dislikes odour of new maidens )

rain ( the new maiden who is carried off by, and becomes a frog )

food ( eaten by the new maiden )

food ( the new maiden drinks and eats moderately )

food ( about new maidens )

transformation ( of new maidens by the Water )

transformation ( the new maiden who becomes a frog )

transformation ( about new maidens )

hut ( about new maidens )

hut ( the seclusion of the new maiden in )

3863-3881