How the Jackal deceived the Hyena

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Title

How the Jackal deceived the Hyena

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

<i>The 'Jackal's Tower' still visible as a 'spitzkop' on the other side of the Zak River gives rise to a 'Jackal and Hyena' fable, told to Dia!kwãin by his mother ≠kámme-an (L V.-4. 4231-4252 1/2).</i>

Comments

1) p.4230v: Dia!kwain's mother (≠kamme-an) told him this story; the |xam and Dutch names for the spitzkop (which is the setting for this story); a partly legible note about another Jackal who was formerly married to a Quagga, 2) p.4231v: the name of the Hyena's wife, 3) p.4235v: about the mouse whose entrails are made into a riem (the

Type

story

Date

23 February 1875 (started)

Category

History (Early Race)

Keyword

Jackal ( how the Jackal deceived the Hyena )

Jackal ( kills people with its cunning )

Jackal ( and Hyenas )

Jackal ( his wife )

Jackal ( builds a house of sticks )

Jackal ( and the riem or thong )

Jackal ( and Hyena's quagga )

Jackal ( burns Hyena )

Hyena ( how the Jackal deceived the Hyena )

Hyena ( and his people )

Hyena ( his travelling party )

Hyena ( his prey, quagga )

Hyena ( and the riem )

Hyena ( his back parts are burnt )

Hyena ( is burnt in fire )

Hyena ( accounting for appearance of the hyena's back parts )

riem ( a thong )

riem ( made of mouse-entrails )

riem ( how the Jackal deceived the Hyena )

thong ( the riem made of mouse-entrails )

thong ( how the Jackal deceived the Hyena )

quagga ( the prey of Hyena )

quagga ( how the Jackal deceived the Hyena )

fire ( Hyena is burnt in )

fire ( accounting for appearance of the hyena's back parts )

fire ( how the Jackal deceived the Hyena )

animals ( accounting for appearance of the hyena's back parts )

Story Pages

4231-4252 1/2, 4253- 4264

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