Cursing
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Cursing
Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
<i>Various modes of cursing in use among the Bushmen. By /han≠kass'o (L.VIII.-31. 8741-8743). </i>The people say 'Graveman!', 'Departed One!' and 'Be killed!' when cursing another man, wishing the other party to die.
1) p.8740v: (16 August 1879) |han≠kass'o observed this himself; words and sentences; what people say when they wish for another to die, 2) p.8741v: some 'Har River Bushmen' (such as Jacob Nein, spelt 'Lein' here), 3) p.8742v: on cursing and wishing another dead, 4) This story is found in Book VIII-31
story
16 August 1879
Custom and daily life
cursing (that another may die), cursing (by people), cursing (what people say to each other when), cursing (and wishing another dead), cursing ('Graveman!'), cursing ('Oh, mayest thou be hatched!'), cursing ('A fight shall come upon thee'), cursing ('Departed One!'), cursing (Be killed!'), cursing (modes of), cursing (resembles things which hatch), death (and cursing), death (wishing 'a fight' upon another), hatch ('This cursing, it resembles things which hatch')
8741-8743
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