What is done with a 'new' maiden

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Title

What is done with a 'new' maiden

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

!kweiten ta ||ken (Rachel) (VI)

Summary

<i>What a Maiden must eat and avoid (L II.28. 2520-2524). How a New Maiden is treated, has been told in the Katkop dialect, by !kwéiten ta ||ken (L VI.-2. 3997-4003); who also narrates the use made by Bushman Maidens of a kind of red stone (L VI.-1. 3970-3974). </i>New maidens lie in the house of seclusion for one month (from the half of one moon to another). Included are details of where they are secluded, why they cannot look at people and walk about, what they eat and do during this time, and who cares for them.

Comments

1) p.3999v: the period of time new maidens are secluded (one month), 2) This story is found in Book VI-2

Type

story

Date

31 December 1874 - 1 January 1875

Category

New maidens

Custom and daily life

Story Pages

3997-4003

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