About sorcerers: their death, their snoring work, earthquakes and the rain

About sorcerers: their death, their snoring work, earthquakes and the rain

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>Further details concerning what occurs at the death of a sorcerer, and concerning the harmful and beneficial doings of sorcerers (L V.-19. 5506-5530). When a sorcerer dies, an earthquake takes place, and a star shoots. Even when asleep, a sorcerer knows what is going about in the night; and takes care of the people, defending them from the sorcerers. (L V.-19. 5531-5536 1/2).</i> Sorcerers' hearts sound like the rain when they die and their hearts fall into waterpits. Parents say they fear falling stars, because they know things that happen and always fall for a reason. Sorcerers can send their sorcery to different places to 'spirit' people away or kill them.

1) Dia!kwain was told this story by his mother (≠kamme-an), 2) pp.5505v &amp; 5506v: see <i>Dia!kwain's explanation of the name which his mother gave him</i>, 3) pp.5506v-5512v: see <i>More about sorcerers</i>, 4) p.5524v: |xam terms for the anointing and smearing of blood from the healer's nose on the patient, 5) See also <i>Falling stars</i>, 6) This story is found in Book V-19

story

11 November 1875 (started)

Custom and daily life

Healing and ailing

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