The Mantis, the Mice and the Beetle

The Mantis, the Mice and the Beetle

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>The Mantis, the valiant Striped Mouse </i>[Mus Pumilio, Common Striped Field-Mouse of the Cape]<i>, the other Mice, and the Beetle . By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-17. 7542-7549, 18. 7550).</i> This is a story of the Early Race when the Mice are people who are not strong and the Beetle kills them. |kaggen (the Mantis) dreams about the Beetle and tells the Striped Mouse (who is strong) to go to the river bed where the Beetle waits. The Beetle throws a stick at the Striped Mouse and the Mouse throws one back at the Beetle, knocking it down and killing it. The Striped Mouse frees his friends and the Long-nosed Mice return to life.

1) |han≠kass'o was told this story by his mother (|xabbi-an), who he thinks heard it from her mother (≠kammi), 2) pp.7547v &amp; 7550opp: see <i>Grass in Bushmanland that resembles brushes</i> (2 &amp; 3 October 1878); the names for brushes for wiping the face, 3) See also <i>The Lizard, the Mice and the Mantis (includes the song of the Agama lizard) </i>and<i> The Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and the Mantis, or why the (black) Wildebeest has a white or light coloured tail</i>, 4) This story is found in Books VIII-17 and VIII-18

story

21 September 1878 (started and finished)

|kaggen (the Mantis)

|kaggen ( the Mantis )

|kaggen ( dreams of the Beetle )

|kaggen ( and the Mice and the Beetle )

|kaggen ( his relations )

|kaggen ( and the Striped Mouse )

|kaggen ( instructs the Mice )

|kaggen ( his dreams and presentiments )

resurrection ( of the Long-nosed Mice )

Mice ( make holes )

Mice ( seek 'Bushman rice' )

Mice ( and |kaggen and the Beetle )

Mice ( the Striped Mouse or Mus Pumilio or the common striped fieldmouse )

Mice ( were formerly people of the Early Race )

Mice ( the fight of the Mice and the Beetle )

Mice ( the Long-nosed are killed by the Beetle )

Mice ( the resurrection of the Long-nosed )

Mice ( the Mouse who married the !xwe Mouse )

Mice ( dig holes in the riverbed )

Mice ( Striped Mouse who is strong )

Mice ( their knobkerries )

Mice ( that kill the Beetle )

Beetle ( and |kaggen and the Mice )

Beetle ( |kaggen's dream of )

Beetle ( is killed by the Striped Mouse )

Beetle ( kills the Mice )

Beetle ( its fights with the Mouse )

Beetle ( was formerly a man of the Early Race )

Beetle ( and the river bed )

knobkerry ( with which the Striped Mouse kills the Beetle )

knobkerry ( and the Striped Mouse's fight with the Beetle )

knobkerry ( |kaggen, the Mice and the Beetle )

dream ( |kaggen's )

dream ( |kaggen's premonition about the Beetle and the Mice )

dream ( |kaggen, the Mice and the Beetle )

Early Race ( |kaggen, the Mice and the Beetle are people of )

fight ( between the Mice and the Beetle )

fight ( |kaggen, the Mice and the Beetle )

7542-7549, 7550