The locust bird or ||kerri

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

The locusts (with the locust birds which accompany them) are set free by Sorcerers. Stones not to be thrown at the locusts. (L V.-21. 5708-5719 1/2). The locust bird (or ||kerri) travels about with locust 'flocks' and with sorcerers. Only sorcerers may release locusts from their hole - other people would die. The locusts and the locust birds are dangerous things or 'fighting things'.

Comments

1) p.5707v: this story was told to Dia!kwain's mother by the sorceress Tannu !kauken who heard it from her mother; Dutch farmers call the locust bird the springkan vogel, 2) Date on p.5715: 15 December, 3) See also The ||kerri and The locust birds, 4) This story is found in Book V-21

Type

story

Date

December 1875

Category

Custom and daily life

Plants and animals

Portention

Keyword

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