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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