About sorcerers
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About sorcerers
Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks
Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)
<i>The Bushman Doctor or Sorcerer (L II.-1. 273-275). An account of these people was also given in the Katkop dialect by Dia!kwáin (L V.-3. 4122-4131), from whom we besides have two reports of cures performed upon himself. The first of these (L V.-3. 4132-4161, 4. 4162-4199) includes a speech made by the sorceress; the second relates how she cured him when injured by a Kafir (L V.-4. 4200-4230).</i> When the healer (<i>!gixa</i>) returns home after doing his work he 'trembles' and the people give him buchu to smell to make his 'vertebral artery' lie back down. A new healer has other healers' 'work' 'snored in to his veins so that he too can 'snore' ill people.
1) p.4121v: Dia!kwain heard about this from his mother (≠kammi-an), but also saw it for himself; the |xam names of veins; Dr Stewart was consulted on the 'vertebral artery', 2) p.4126v: Dia!kwain says that there would be a 'spring' of blood inside the body, or internal bleeding from the 'vertebral artery', 3) See also <i>The tale of a wise person or sorceress, what she said, when she talked with us</i> and <i>The story of a sorceress; that which she did when the Kafir had hurt my throat, she 'snored' me, when my throat was swollen </i>and<i> About the 'Toornan': the Bushman witchdoctor</i>, 4) This story is found in Book V-3
story
20 January 1875 (started)
Healing and ailing
Custom and daily life
sorcerer ( see healer )
healers ( about sorcerers )
healers ( !giten )
healers ( 'Bushman doctors' )
healers ( making or becoming )
healers ( transformation of )
healers ( are taught by old people )
healers ( their work )
healers ( their work is not easy )
healers ( their return home )
healers ( their vertebral vein or artery )
healers ( and internal bleeding )
healers ( and snoring )
healers ( heal people )
healers ( their work is snored in their veins )
healers ( other sorcerers' work is snored into their veins )
healers ( their recovery )
healers ( about their vein )
healers ( become lions )
healers ( become beasts of prey )
healers ( will kill people )
healers ( caring for them )
healers ( and singing and dancing of people )
healers ( the treatment of )
healers ( tremble )
healers ( their great vein )
healers ( their backbone )
healers ( become ill )
healers ( and buchu )
healers ( grow hair )
healers ( sneeze people )
healers ( are taught by other sorcerers )
healers ( the teaching of )
lions ( sorcerers become )
lions ( about sorcerers )
buchu ( healing with )
buchu ( its medicinal uses )
buchu ( and recovery of sorcerer )
buchu ( about sorcerers )
veins ( about sorcerers )
veins ( of sorcerers )
veins ( lie down )
veins ( stand up )
veins ( great )
veins ( in backbone )
veins ( and sorcerer's snoring work )
veins ( and snoring )
veins ( or vertebral artery )
veins ( and internal bleeding )
veins ( and trembling )
veins ( and buchu )
veins ( resists )
education ( about sorcerers )
education ( sorcerers are taught by other sorcerers )
education ( becoming a sorcerer )
education ( a new healer has other healers' 'work' 'snored' in to his veins )
snoring ( about sorcerers and their work )
transformation ( of sorcerers who become lions )
transformation ( about sorcerers )
backbone ( of sorcerer )
backbone ( about sorcerers )
blood ( about sorcerers )
blood ( sorcerers and internal bleeding )
work ( about sorcerers )
work ( healing work of sorcerers )
work ( healer trembles after )
trembling ( about sorcerers )
trembling ( of sorcerer after 'snoring' or healing work )
illness ( 'snored' by healer )
illness ( about sorcerers )
beasts of prey ( sorcerers become )
beasts of prey ( about sorcerers )
sneezing ( and healing work )
sneezing ( about sorcerers )
healing ( work of sorcerers or healers )
healing ( the use of buchu )
healing ( about sorcerers )
healing ( sneezing )
healing ( snoring )
name ( used for healers is !giten )
name ( about sorcerers )
plant ( medicinal )
plant ( buchu )
plant ( about sorcerers )
4122-4131
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