!gaunu

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Title

!gaunu

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

!gaunu is also !guonni and is at the bee's hole. He bewitches (or 'stabs') people (to death) if they go to the hole where he is. Dia!kwain says the fathers told them that !guonni is a 'thing' which 'pinches the chest' and knocks people down.

Comments

1) p.5669v: Dia!kwain heard this from his paternal grandmother (Ttuobbo-ken !kauk'si), 2) See also

Type

story

Date

8 December 1875 (started)

Category

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

Custom and daily life

Healing and ailing

Keyword

!gaunu ( is !guonni )

!guonni ( !gaunu is )

!guonni ( his strong thing )

!guonni ( knocks people down )

!guonni ( his spear )

!guonni ( stabs and makes people ill )

!guonni ( is at the bee's hole )

!guonni ( 'bewitches us to death' )

!guonni ( pinches )

!guonni ( stabs people )

!guonni ( his actions )

!guonni ( flies away )

!guonni ( buzzes or hums inside the hole )

!guonni ( the people beat him to death )

!guonni ( stabs or bewitches )

!guonni ( his doings )

!guonni ( what people do when they know his doings )

!guonni ( sharpens his point )

!guonni ( is a 'thing' which 'pinches the chest' )

stars ( !gaunu )

stars ( !guonni )

stars ( !gaunu is !guonni )

stars ( and bees )

stars ( and illness or bewitchment )

stars ( names of )

illness ( when !guonni 'bewitches us to death', stabs people )

illness ( and !gaunu )

illness ( caused by bewitchment )

illness ( !guonni is a 'thing' which 'pinches the chest' )

names ( of stars )

names ( and !gaunu )

spear ( !guonni's, with which he stabs and makes people ill )

bee ( !guonni is at the bee's hole )

bee ( and !gaunu )

Story Pages

5670-5679

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