|xannan |xannan and the wind

Metadata

Title

|xannan |xannan and the wind

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

<i>A certain old woman named /xannan-/xannan, who had power over the wind. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-23. 5842 rev., 5845, 5845 rev. and 5846 rev.). The protection extended by the Wind to /xannan-/xannan. (L V.-23. 5862-5871).</i> About the old woman called |xannan |xannan (or ≠na a -an) and what she did with the wind when the people scolded her and made her angry. Dia!kwain's grandfather would ask |xannan |xannan to open her kaross so that the wind would blow out of it and blow away the mosquitos which kept him awake at night.

Comments

1) See also<i> |xannan |xannan</i>, 2) This story is found in Book V-22

Type

story

Date

January 1876

Category

History (personal)

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

Keyword

wind (|xannan |xannan and), wind (its actions), wind (and sorcery), wind (windmaking), wind (and |xannan |xannan's kaross), wind (asking for), wind (and Dia!kwain's grandfather), wind (when angry), wind (throws things), wind (blows shelters away), wind (lays bare), wind (different types of), wind (-sorcerer), wind (and mosquitoes), wind (blows into karosses), wind (blows stones and dust into people's eyes), wind (and angry sorcerers), wind (and the people's treatment of |xannan |xannan), windmaking (|xannan |xannan and the wind), windmaking (by the wind-sorceress |xannan |xannan), windmaker (or wind-sorcerer), windmaker (the wind-sorceress called |xannan |xannan), windmaker (|xannan |xannan and the wind), wind-sorceress (called |xannan |xannan), wind-sorceress (|xannan |xannan and the wind), |xannan |xannan (or ≠na a -an), |xannan |xannan (the wind-sorceress), |xannan |xannan (the windmaker), |xannan |xannan (her kaross makes wind), |xannan |xannan (makes wind), |xannan |xannan (has power over the wind), |xannan |xannan (punishes the people), |xannan |xannan (the people's treatment of her), |xannan |xannan (is a wise woman), |xannan |xannan (makes an angry wind), |xannan |xannan (Dia!kwain's grandfather asks her for wind), |xannan |xannan (what she does when angry), mosquitoes (and the wind), mosquitoes (and |xannan |xannan and the wind), mosquitoes (getting rid of), mosquitoes (preventing), mosquitoes (are blown away by the wind), Dia!kwain (his personal history), Dia!kwain (his grandfather asks |xannan |xannan for wind), personal history (Dia!kwain's grandfather asks |xannan |xannan for wind), personal history (|xannan |xannan the wind-sorceress), kaross (of the windmaker |xannan |xannan), kaross (|xannan |xannan's makes wind), sorcerer (wind-sorcerers), sorcerer (the wind-sorceress or windmaker |xannan |xannan), sorcerer (their actions when angry), sorcerer (the treatment of)

Story Pages

5842v-5845v, 5845

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