The Lion and the man's story; what the Lion formerly did to the man or The young man of the Ancient Race, who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field

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Title

The Lion and the man's story; what the Lion formerly did to the man or The young man of the Ancient Race, who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

<i>The young man of the ancient race, who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field. A very affecting legend, in the Katkop dialect, related to Dia!kwãin by his mother ≠kámme-an (L V.-7. 4457-4525).</i>

Comments

1) Dia!kwain heard this story from his mother (≠kamme-an), 2) Date on p.4457: 29 March; p.4503: 4 April, 3) p.4461v: about the

Type

story

Date

29 March - April 1875

Category

History (Early Race)

Keyword

lions ( the Lion and the man's story )

lions ( are sorcerers )

lions ( the nature and habits of )

lions ( make people sleepy )

lions ( won't leave their prey )

lions ( are cunning )

lions ( die only when the man they seek is dead )

lions ( the Lion wants the man whose tears it licked )

lions ( the Lion and the man of the Early Race )

lions ( and the man who falls asleep while out hunting )

lions ( habits of )

lions ( the Lion licks the man's 'eye's tears' )

lions ( are sorcerers )

young man ( of the Early Race )

young man ( the Lion makes him sleepy )

young man ( falls asleep on the hunting-ground )

young man ( is taken away by the Lion )

young man ( is put in a tree by the Lion )

young man ( feigns death )

young man ( runs home in a zigzag direction )

young man ( tries to fool the Lion )

young man ( looks through his eyelashes at the Lion )

young man ( his people protect him )

young man ( hides in hartebeest skins )

young man ( hides in the bushes of the house )

Early Race ( 'ancient race' )

Early Race ( the young man of, who falls asleep and is taken away by the Lion )

skin ( hartebeest )

skin ( young man hides in from Lion )

man ( of the Early Race who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field )

man ( young )

sleep ( lions make people sleepy )

sleep ( the young man of the Early Race who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field )

sleep ( a cautionary tale about falling asleep on the hunting-ground )

sorcerers ( lions are )

Story Pages

4457-4525

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