Falling stars

Falling stars

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>Falling Stars. Certain ceremonies in connection with them. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-19. 5478-5483, 5481 rev.,-5483 rev., note). At the death of a sorcerer, his heart falls (as a shooting star) out of the sky and goes into a water pit. The doings and power of sorcerers, etc. (L V.-19. 5483-5505).</i> Falling stars go into the waterpit and sound like the rain; sorcerers' hearts also fall down from the sky and go into the waterpit with a thundering sound; the customs of sorcerers.

1) p.5477v: this story was told to Dia!kwain by his mother (≠kamme-an), 2) p.5487v: the 'sorcerer of illness' mentioned in the story has died of sickness; the |xam name for an illness, 4) p.5504v: see <i>A presentiment</i>, 5) See also <i>About sorcerers: the rain, their death, earthquakes and their snoring work</i>, 6) This story is found in Book V-19

story

November 1875

Custom and daily life

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

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