The maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain (and causes lightning)

The maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain (and causes lightning)

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>We should not allow a maiden to snap her fingers at us; the wrath of the Rain against us being thereby aroused. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-20. 5618-5622, 5624). </i>

1) p.5617v: Dia!kwain heard this from his father (Xaa-ttin); a note about a man called ||kunn, or Koos Groot-Aug (?), including details about where he lived and a tree that grows there, 2) p.5618v: a certain tree and the location of the 'pits' in the Zak River, 3) See also

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20 - 21 December 1875

New maidens

The Rain and Rain's water

rain ( a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes lightning )

rain ( 'shoots' people )

rain ( 'shoots' like a girl does )

rain ( and bad weather )

rain ( and the actions of a new maiden )

rain ( imitates the maiden's speech )

rain ( what happens when it is angry )

rain ( and lightning and thunder )

rain ( people speak to )

rain ( gentle )

rain ( 'killing' )

rain ( and the maiden who snapped her fingers )

rain ( snapping fingers and lightning )

rain ( and related weather )

rain ( resembles what the maiden did to the people )

rain ( different types of )

rain ( prohibitions relating to )

new maiden ( a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes lightning )

new maiden ( the rain shoots like she does )

new maiden ( her behaviour and the people's fortunes )

new maiden ( who snaps her fingers at the rain )

new maiden ( and the rain )

new maiden ( who angers the rain )

new maiden ( the rain imitates her )

new maiden ( causes bad weather )

new maiden ( makes a 'killing' rain )

new maiden ( prohibitions regarding behaviour )

speech ( and actions of the new maiden )

speech ( a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes lightning )

speech ( rain imitates the maiden's )

lightning ( a maiden who snaps her fingers at the rain causes )

lightning ( and an angry or 'killing' rain )

lightning ( rain 'shoots' like a girl does )

5618-5622, 5624