The man who went to sleep when out hunting alone

The man who went to sleep when out hunting alone

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

!kweiten ta

ken (Rachel) (VI)

<i>Another legend relates how a man of this early race was killed and eaten by a lion; and it is used to point out the folly of venturing to fall asleep when out alone in the field. Told also by !kwéiten ta //kën (L VI.-2. 4004-4025).</i> By pretending to be dead the man escapes from the Lion, sneaking off home by a clever route in an effort to throw the Lion off his scent. The man hides under a pile of skins at home, but despite his people's efforts to protect him they give up and allow the Lion to take him.

1) p.4013v: this story was told to !kweiten ta ||ken by her mother (≠kamme-an), 2) p.4015v: a note on the thorn trees and bushes found in this area (the Achterveld), 3) p.4023v: old men and women tell children that beasts of prey make people sleepy out in the veld, 4) See also <i>The Lion and the man's story; what the Lion formerly did to the man </i>or<i> The young man of the Ancient Race, who was carried off by a Lion, when asleep in the field </i>and<i> A lion's story </i>or<i> The child who saved her sleeping parents from the lion</i>, 5) This story is found in Book VI-2

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4 - 5 January 1875

History (Early Race)

Early Race ( the First Bushmen )

Early Race ( the !khwe |na ss'e !k'e )

Early Race ( and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone )

beast of prey ( makes people sleepy )

beast of prey ( its doings )

beast of prey ( its magic powers )

beast of prey ( lion is )

lion ( makes people sleepy )

lion ( and man who went to sleep when out hunting alone )

lion ( its nature and habits )

lion ( the Lion licks the man's 'eye's tears' )

lion ( the Lion comes for man whose tears it licked )

hunting ( and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone )

hunting ( observances )

hunting ( -ground's doings )

hunting ( teachings about )

hunting ( alone )

hunting ( and sleeping in veld )

hunting ( beasts of prey make men sleepy on -ground )

hunting ( warnings about )

hunting ( prohibitions regarding )

sleeping ( and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone )

sleeping ( and magic powers of beasts of prey )

sleeping ( warnings about )

sleeping ( and hunting alone )

sleeping ( on hunting ground )

teaching ( hunting observances )

teaching ( warnings about beasts of prey and their magic powers )

teaching ( and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone )

skins ( the man hides from the Lion under )

skins ( and the man who went to sleep when out hunting alone )

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