Concerning apparitions (or How, when the first wife of Dia!kwain was buried, those returning to their homes saw the apparition of a little child)
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Title
Concerning apparitions (or How, when the first wife of Dia!kwain was buried, those returning to their homes saw the apparition of a little child)
Collection
Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks
Contributor
Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)
Summary
<i>Apparition seen by the party returning from the burial of the narrator's wife; followed by the account of an apparition seen, on another occasion, by the narrator's brother-in-law. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-22. 5810, 23. 5811-5832). </i>Dia!kwain and his people were returning from burying his wife when they saw an apparition that resembled Dia!kwain's wife. He believed it to be something that appears at the time when sorcerers take people away. Dia!kwain's brother-in-law, Mansse, also saw an apparition on the hunting-ground. Apparitions resemble people in some ways, but are also different.
Comments
1) p.5809v: 'A personal adventure - Related by Dia!kwain', 2) This story is found in Books V-22 and V-23
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