Eating the springbok's tongue-tip

Eating the springbok's tongue-tip

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>The tip of the tongue of the Springbok is not eaten by children. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-25. 6025-6030).</i> When the springbok's tongue-tip is eaten, the person stumbles over a stone and stubs his or her toe.

1) This story is found in Book V-25

story

March 1876

Custom and daily life

food (eaten by children), food (prohibitions and avoidances relating to), food (teachings about), food (the consequences of a child's eating of the springbok's tongue-tip), springbok (children fear and do not eat its tongue-tip), springbok (the consequences of eating its tongue-tip), children (the consequences of their eating the springbok's tongue-tip), teaching (about eating and avoiding certain foods), teaching (of the consequences of a child's eating the springbok's tongue-tip), education (about eating and avoiding certain foods), education (of the consequences of a child's eating the springbok's tongue-tip)

6025-6030