About locusts

About locusts

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

When a swarm of locusts comes flying past the people must go to the place where the locusts settle and make fire. The rainmaker, |kannu, grew locusts and gave them to the people.

1) Date on p.6640: 10 April; p.6673: 15 May, 2) pp.6639v-6646v: see |<i>kannu the rain sorcerer</i>, 3) p.6652v: see <i>The hail is the rain's legs</i>, 4) p.6672v: see <i>The ||kerri bird and locusts</i>, 5) p.6679v: see <i>Gambro or |kui and its ill-effects</i>, 6) See also <i>The girl who made locusts</i>, 7) This story is found in Book VIII-7

story

April - May 1878

Custom and daily life

The Rain and Rain's water

locust (and the times of day), locust (and sorcerers), locust (preserving its legs), locust (and gambro), locust (the seeking and collecting of), locust (picking it up properly), locust (and birds and jackals), locust ('locust-thirst'), locust (its eggs), locust (a description of a 'body' or swarm), locust (the male and female parts of the swarm), locust (grown, created by the rainmaker |kannu), locust (drinking water and collecting it), locust ('leaving alone'), locust (the eating of), locust (things that frighten it away), locust (respecting), locust (the treatment of), locust (avoidance behaviour relating to), locust (burning and killing), locust (and bushes), locust (what people call out to it), locust (and |kui sse), locust (and sunset), locust (the actions and habits of), locust (the coming of), locust (places where it settles), locust (fires must be made at the place where locusts settle), sorcerers (and locusts), sorcerers (|kannu the rainmaker), sorcerers (rain-sorcerers), food (seeking and collecting locusts), food (|kannu the rainmaker created locusts and gave them to the people), name (called by the people to the locust), name (of edible plants), name (gambro or |kui), name (of a plant, |kui sse), name (of a rainmaker, |kannu), respect (for locusts), respect (what people call out to the locust), respect (picking the locust up properly), respect (preserving the locust's legs), water (drinking and collecting locusts), water (locust-thirst), insect (about locusts), |kannu (the rainmaker), |kannu (his behaviour), |kannu (gives locusts to the people), |kannu ('is an old man'), |kannu (his 'decayed' arm), |kannu (owns locusts), |kannu (grows locusts), |kannu (and the creation of locusts), rain (its liquid or dew), rain (and locusts), rain (making fires when it is wet), rain (|kannu the rainmaker created locusts), fires (must be made at the place where the locusts settle), fires (making), fires (and locusts), fires (making them when it rains), thirst (locust-thirst), thirst (kills), thirst (the ill-effects of), thirst (headaches from), thirst (and collecting locusts), gambro (or |kui), gambro (the ill-effects of), gambro ('fights' and kills people), creation (of locusts by |kannu the rainmaker), illness (caused by locust-thirst), illness (caused by eating gambro), illness (headache), illness (and collecting locusts), rainmaker (called |kannu created locusts and gave them to the people), rainmaker (sorcerers and locusts)

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