What Xaa-ttin used to sing (the broken string)

What Xaa-ttin used to sing (the broken string)

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Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>The sorcerer !nuin|kúïten. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-15. 5079-5101, 5104-5109).</i> A song that Dia!kwain's father Xaa-ttin used to sing: when he used to sleep he would hear a person calling him (the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten).

1) p.5103v: the string that broke was the thong or string Xaa-ttin heard when !nuin |kuiten invoked the rain-bull, 2) See also <i>The broken string</i> and <i>!huin-|kui-ten (who was a sorcerer or magician)</i>, 3) This story is found in Book V-15

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