Custom observed with Bushman children, when too young to walk

Custom observed with Bushman children, when too young to walk

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>A ceremony performed with the Brachycerus (African Ground Weevil) in order to preserve young babies from convulsions. In the Katkop dialect by Díä!kwãin (L V.-23. 5833-5840). The Brachycerus used to cure illness in little children. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-21. 7822-7825).</i>

1) p.5832v: this story was told to Dia!kwain by his mother (≠kamme-an); the beetle of the story ticks like a clock and is shaped like a tortoise, 2) This story is found in Book V-23

story

6 January 1876 (started)

Custom and daily life

Healing and ailing

healing (with a beetle), healing (with the African ground weevil), healing (actions performed while), healing (the sounds made while), healing (a description of a healing custom observed with young children), healing (of a very young child), healing (of a young child's convulsions), child (a custom observed with young children), child (healing with a weevil), child (and the African ground weevil), child (with convulsions in its sleep), child (and illness), child (is startled awake), weevil (a custom observed with young children), weevil (the Brachycerus), weevil (African ground), weevil (used in healing young children), weevil (or beetle), weevil (is placed in a child's hands), illness (healing a young child with a weevil), illness (healing in little children), illness (a child's convulsions), insect (a healing custom observed with young children using the African ground weevil or Brachycerus)

5833-5840