!gaunu

Metadata

Title

!gaunu

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

!gaunu is also !guonni and is at the bee's hole. He bewitches (or 'stabs') people (to death) if they go to the hole where he is. Dia!kwain says the fathers told them that !guonni is a 'thing' which 'pinches the chest' and knocks people down.

Comments

1) p.5669v: Dia!kwain heard this from his paternal grandmother (Ttuobbo-ken !kauk'si), 2) See also The great star !gaunu, which singing named the stars and Stars and Flowers and A song sung by the star !gaunu, especially by the Bushman women, 3) This story is found in Book V-21

Type

story

Date

8 December 1875 (started)

Category

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

Custom and daily life

Healing and ailing

Keyword

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