Picture of Mr Orpen's

Picture of Mr Orpen's

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>A curious description of a dance and other doings of sorcerers was given in explanation of No. 3 of Mr Stow's copies of Bushman paintings (L V.-22. 5755-5775). Further details regarding sorcerers (suggested by Mr J.M. Orpen's copy of Bushman paintings - published in the </i>Cape Monthly Magazine<i> for July, 1874) were also given by Díä!kwãin (L V.-25. 6008-6013).</i> People who die of 'sorcery' without feeling ill and how sorcerers strengthen their senses. They are not ordinary people.

1) p.6007v: Dia!kwain heard this story from his mother (≠kamme-an); a note on the thing held by the dancer in Orpen's picture seen in <i>Cape Monthly Magazine</i> (of July 1874); the |xam and Dutch name of a tortoise-shell in which buchu is kept; see <i>Jan Plat's aunt Natta sang the ≠gebbi-ggu </i>(see also p.6006v), 2) p.6008v: |xam names for animals (namely tortoises), 3) See also <i>Mr G. Stow's Bushman picture no. 3 (the ||ken dance)</i> and <i>Sorcerers and the ||ken dance</i>, 4) This story is found in Book V-25

story

20 February 1876

Custom and daily life

Portention

magic things (and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers), magic things (possessions of sorcerers), sorcery (kills people), sorcery (people who die of), sorcery ('smelling'), sorcery (and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers), Orpen's picture (a description of), Orpen's picture (a discussion of), Orpen's picture (of magical doings), Orpen's picture (of sorcery), Orpen's picture (of sorcerers), sorcerers (in Mr Orpen's picture), sorcerers (their rituals and ceremonies), sorcerers (strengthen themselves), sorcerers (their doings), sorcerers (their power), sorcerers (assume other forms), sorcerers (their actions), sorcerers (know things), sorcerers (sense and see things), sorcerers (their possessions), sorcerers (their magic things), sorcerers (smell people who die), sorcerers (and death), sorcerers (things that strengthen their senses), sorcerers (people's treatment of), sorcerers (bewitch and kill people), sorcerers (have things whose bodies they are), ceremony (of sorcerers in which they strengthen themselves), ceremony (and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers), transformation (and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers), transformation (sorcerers assume other forms), death (people who are killed by sorcery), death (and Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers), death (sorcerers smell people who die), rock art (Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers), rock art (Orpen's copies of Bushman paintings), paintings (Mr Orpen's picture of sorcerers), paintings (Orpen's copies of Bushman)

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