Children do not say the lion's name at night

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Title

Children do not say the lion's name at night

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

The children call the lion different names by day and by night and wish to avoid insulting (or slighting it).

Comments

1) See also <i>The lion has the power of turning itself into other things </i>and<i> A wild cat, when many have been killed by a person changes itself into a lion and kills the slayer</i>, 2) This story is found in Book VIII-23

Type

story

Date

28 December 1878

Category

Custom and daily life

Keyword

lion ( comes to fight with us )

lion ( the darkness is its shadow )

lion ( called |kerre-|e )

lion ( the 'thing whose head's darkness it is' )

lion ( the shadow of its head at night )

lion ( children do not say its name at night )

lion ( goes by night )

lion ( is feared )

lion ( what the people call it )

lion ( why it kills people when they are grown-ups )

lion ( the actions and habits of )

lion ( calling its name )

lion ( prohibitions regarding the saying of its name )

lion ( respecting )

lion ( insulting or slighting it by saying its name )

lion ( children slight it by saying its name )

lion ( does not kill children )

lion ( waits for a child to grow up before killing it )

lion ( attacks grown-ups )

name ( avoiding saying the lion's )

name ( children do not say the lion's at night )

name ( lion is called |kerre-|e )

name ( what to call the lion )

name ( respecting the lion's )

children ( do not say the lion's name at night )

children ( the lion waits for them to grow up before killing them )

children ( what happens when they slight the lion by saying its name )

children ( what they call the lion at night )

children ( must respect the lion's name )

avoidance ( of saying the lion's name at night )

fight ( lion comes to, with us )

fight ( and saying the lion's name at night )

night ( children do not say the lion's name at )

night ( the doings of lions at )

night ( the darkness is the lion's shadow )

night ( the lion or 'thing whose head's darkness it is' )

night ( the shadow of the lion's head at night )

shadow ( of the lion's head at night )

shadow ( and how children do not say the lion's name at night )

Story Pages

8075v-8076v, 8078v

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