Avoiding where the jackal or the hyena have passed water

Avoiding where the jackal or the hyena have passed water

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>Certain spots, where the jackal, or the hyena, has been, avoided by Bushmen, for fear of skin disease. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.29. 8584 rev.-8587 rev.).</i>

1) This story is found in Book VIII-30

story

July 1879

Custom and daily life

Healing and ailing

avoidance (of places where jackals and hyenas have passed water), food (is not collected near places 'dirtied' by jackals and hyenas), hyenas (places where they have urinated are avoided), jackals (places where they have urinated are avoided), urine (people don't pass by where jackals and hyenas have passed water), water (avoiding where the jackal and hyena have passed), water (places where jackals and hyenas have urinated), illness (places where jackal and hyena have passed water are avoided for fear of skin disease)

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