Leopards, lions and phrases

Leopards, lions and phrases

Wilhelm Bleek notebooks

a!kunta (Stoffel) (I)

A leopard jumps out of a bush and grasps a man's head in its claws. The man slowly returns to his house to lie down and nurse his wounded head. In what seems to be the same story a lion jumps out at a man and bites him, killing him. The lion places the man's body in the shade of a tree.

1) This story is found in Book I

story

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Plants and animals

leopard ( which bites a man )

lion ( which bites a man )

lion ( and leopards )

lion ( which places the man's body in shade of tree )

man ( bitten by a lion )

man ( grabbed by a leopard )

man ( his body placed in the shade of a tree )

tree ( man's body placed by a lion in its shade )

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