More about sorcerers

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

He changes himself into a jackal, and goes to find out what is detaining his people, when they do not return home. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-19. 5506 rev.-5512 rev.). Sorcerers' hearts become stars and come out of the sky when they die. In the form of a jackal, sorcerers seek people from their homes at night to see where they are and how they are doing.

Comments

1) See also About sorcerers: their death, their snoring work, earthquakes and the rain and !nuin-|kui-ten (who was a sorcerer or magician), 2) This story is found in Book V-19

Type

story

Date

12 November 1875 (started)

Category

Custom and daily life

Transformation

Keyword

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