Rain changes people into frogs

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Title

Rain changes people into frogs

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

<i>The Rain believed to be ridden by sorcerers. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-27. 8399 rev. and 8400 rev., note). When the Rain is angry with anyone, people may be carried off in the whirlwind, and various transformations effected. The young women should propitiate a water pit, by means of 'buchu' and ttò. (L VIII.-16. 7418-7428.) </i>

Comments

1) |han≠kass'o heard this from his mother (|xabbi-an) who he thinks heard it from her mother (≠kammi), 2) See also

Type

story

Date

9 September 1878 (started)

Category

The Rain and Rain's water

Transformation

Keyword

rain ( changes people into frogs )

rain ( protection from )

rain ( and the treatment of water and water pits )

rain ( avoiding angering )

rain ( likes the smell of certain things )

rain ( its actions )

rain ( appeasing )

rain ( throwing stones at )

rain ( how girls treat )

rain ( what girls do when it falls )

rain ( girls paint tto on the water's things )

rain ( and 'new water' )

rain ( its body )

rain ( wants to kill people when angry )

rain ( attacks with hail )

rain ( and transformation )

rain ( changes karosses and quiver skins into springbok )

rain ( changes sticks into bushes )

rain ( transforms the people and their things )

rain ( its wind )

rain ( its whirlwind )

rain ( and hail )

rain ( and thunder )

rain ( becomes a pond )

rain ( and buchu and tto )

rain ( and clouds )

rain ( respect for and treatment of )

rain ( the water's things )

whirlwind ( of the rain )

whirlwind ( the rain changes people into frogs )

transformation ( the rain changes people into frogs )

transformation ( the rain becomes a pond )

transformation ( of the people's things )

wind ( rain changes people into frogs )

wind ( the rain's is cold )

wind ( carries the people away )

wind ( the whirlwind )

wind ( of the angry rain )

frogs ( people become them in the pond )

frogs ( the angry rain changes people into )

buchu ( appeasing the angry rain with )

buchu ( the actions performed with by girls with )

buchu ( the rain loves )

buchu ( and the treatment of the rain )

buchu ( rain changes people into frogs )

girls ( 'darken Water's things' )

girls ( and the treatment of the rain )

girls ( appease the rain )

girls ( strew the water with ground-up buchu )

girls ( paint the water's things with tto )

girls ( rain changes people into frogs )

tto ( red haematite )

tto ( girls paint the water's things with )

tto ( red )

tto ( and appeasing the angry rain )

tto ( painting with )

tto ( and protection from the rain )

tto ( rain changes people into frogs )

painting ( by girls of the water's things with tto )

painting ( rain changes people into frogs )

Story Pages

7418-7428

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