The story of |kuken-|u |unu

The story of |kuken-|u |unu

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

The story of |kuken-|u |unu (a caterpillar, larva of Aloa) who was formerly a person of the Early Race. |kuken-|u |unu curses a girl and she falls ill. |kuken-|u |unu pretends to die and the girl dies after him and they are buried. The people move to a different watering-hole and |kuken-|u |unu digs up the girl's body and eats her. He follows after the people and repeats this process a number of times, cursing and eating different girls.

1) p.7306v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his mother (|xabbi-an); |kuken-|u |unu was one of the Early Race of people and therefore ate people; |kuken-|u |unu is also known as the larva of <i>Aloa</i>, or the tiger moth, 2) p.7308v: healing or 'snoring' people, 3) p.7310v: see <i>|harritan, the locust-bird</i>, 4) pp.7312v-7315v: see <i>Concerning the |kuken-|u |unu, which is found abundantly, in Bushmanland</i>, 5) p.7316v: the name of a snake, 6) pp.7360v-7362v: see <i>Manner of carrying firewood</i>, 7) This story is found in Book VIII-15

story

19 August 1878 (started)

History (Early Race)

Healing and ailing

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