The Anteater, Springbok and Lynx (||kabbo's version 1)

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Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

kabbo (Jantje) (II)

Summary

... the daughter of the springbok, here named !kháuko, is stolen away by the lynx, who married her. The Anteater, who is told of this by the partridge, follows them underneath the ground; whereupon the lynx unlooses his bowstring and throws it down. The Anteater's head is caught in it, and falling down, she is ordered by the lynx to become altogether an Anteater, and to live in a hole. After this, the lynx takes back the young springbok to her mother, and becomes himself (by the order of the anteater) a lynx who eats springbok, and married a lynx. This account is again followed by the anteater's laws concerning the habits of various animals, such as the jackal, the 'Löffelhund' (Proteles), etc., who were, once upon a time, men. (L II.-2. 323-356.)

Comments

1) Date on p.333: 25 July, 2) See also The Anteater, Springbok and Lynx (//kabbo's version 2) See also The story of the Hyena (the Anteater's laws), The story of the Jackal (the Anteater's laws), The story of the Silver Jackal (the Anteater's laws) and The story of the Strandwolf and the Aardwolf and how they each marry their own kind (the Anteater's laws), 3) This story is found in Book II-2

Type

story

Date

27 July 1871 (finished on or about)

Category

History (Early Race)

Plants and animals

Keyword

Anteater's laws ( the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx )

Anteater ( the Anteater's laws )

Anteater ( antbear )

Anteater ( the Anteater, Springbok and Lynx )