The tale of a wise person or sorceress, what she said, when she talked with us

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Title

The tale of a wise person or sorceress, what she said, when she talked with us

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

The Bushman Doctor or Sorcerer (L II.-1. 273-275). An account of these people was also given in the Katkop dialect by Dia!kwáin (L V.-3. 4122-4131), from whom we besides have two reports of cures performed upon himself. The first of these (L V.-3. 4132-4161, 4. 4162-4199) includes a speech made by the sorceress; the second relates how she cured him when injured by a Kafir (L V.-4. 4200-4230).

Comments

1) p.4131v: this happened to Dia !kwain when he was about eleven years old; the sorceress told this to his mother at the time when she cured him, 2) p.4135v: other sorcerers can take one 'quite' away, or kill a person, 3) p.4138v: a note in Dutch on

Type

story

Date

23 January 1875 (started)

Category

History (personal)

Healing and ailing

Custom and daily life

Keyword

sorceress ( a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

sorceress ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

sorceress ( healer )

sorceress ( !gixa )

sorceress ( !kwarra-an )

sorceress ( removes harm's things )

sorceress ( who will not snore people )

sorceress ( her speech )

sorceress ( her lament )

sorceress ( her complaint )

sorceress ( her personal history )

sorceress ( wants a knife )

sorceress ( and sneezing )

sorceress ( takes things out of body )

sorceress ( her artery or great vein )

sorceress ( is weary and old )

sorceress ( her work is not easy )

sorceress ( is angry )

sorceress ( has killing power )

sorceress ( her power has been taken away )

sorceress ( the people mistreat her )

sorceress ( her fight with people over payment )

sorceress ( people forget her )

sorceress ( her snoring power )

sorceress ( people call her name )

sorceress ( her nose is weak )

sorceress ( and restoring dying )

sorceress ( snores badly )

sorceress ( is beaten by her husband )

sorceress ( smells out illness )

sorceress ( her methods of healing )

sorceress ( and teaching of sorcerers )

sorceress ( or wise woman )

sorceress ( who snored Dia!kwain )

sorceress ( her nose bleeds )

sorceress ( her blood )

blood ( a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

blood ( healing with )

blood ( its scent )

blood ( the sorceress's nose-bleed )

blood ( and sneezing illness )

blood ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

Dia!kwain ( his personal history )

Dia!kwain ( was healed as a boy )

Dia!kwain ( and sorceress !kwarra-an )

Dia!kwain ( a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

Dia!kwain ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

work ( of sorcerer )

work ( healing )

work ( and a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

work ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

healing ( by sorcerers )

healing ( by snoring )

healing ( by sneezing )

healing ( a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

healing ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

healing ( and 'Tornan Manier', or 'sorcerer's craft' )

snoring ( healing )

snoring ( methods of )

snoring ( a description of )

snoring ( power )

snoring ( good and bad )

snoring ( a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

snoring ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

healers ( sorcerers )

healers ( !giten )

healers ( the payment of )

healers ( their good and bad work )

healers ( who are rascals )

healers ( who kill people )

healers ( their snoring and sneezing work )

healers ( stoop )

healers ( their work is snored into veins )

healers ( or Bushman doctor )

healers ( the teaching of )

healers ( their veins )

healers ( their great vein or vertebral artery )

healers ( and sorceress !kwarra-an )

healers ( a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

healers ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

personal history ( of sorceress !kwarra-an )

personal history ( Dia!kwain is healed as a boy )

personal history ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

name ( of a sorceress or healer )

name ( the sorceress !kwarra-an )

name ( used for a healer is !giten )

name ( for sneezing is |kamma )

name ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

speech ( made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

illness ( and sneezing )

illness ( and snoring )

illness ( the healer's snoring and sneezing work )

illness ( and a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

illness ( healing )

illness ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

work ( healer's snoring and sneezing work )

work ( and a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

work ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

education ( of healers )

education ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

nose ( of a healer )

nose ( nosebleeds and healing )

nose ( and a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

nose ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

vein ( the healer's great vein or vertebral artery )

vein ( and a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

vein ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

sneezing ( called |kamma )

sneezing ( what comes out afterwards )

sneezing ( healing with )

sneezing ( of illness )

sneezing ( and a speech made by the sorceress !kwarra-an )

sneezing ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

sneezing ( directing the contents of the sneeze, or sneezing 'rightly' )

lament ( of the sorceress !kwarra-an )

lament ( the tale of a wise person or sorceress )

Story Pages

4132-4161 1/2, 4162-4199

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