Locust birds

Metadata

Title

Locust birds

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

<i>Locust birds not to be molested; etc. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-31. 8763-8765, 8763 rev. and 8764 rev.).</i> |han≠kass'o's grandfather ordered him not to throw stones at the locust birds, for if he did the locusts (and the locust birds) would disappear.

Comments

1) p.8764v: people's arms become sore from throwing stones at swallows and locust birds; Tsatsi was not 'patient', 2) See also <i>Throwing stones at locusts </i>and <i>The locust bird or ||kerri</i>, 3) This story is found in Book VIII-31

Type

story

Date

23 August 1879

Category

History (personal)

Plants and animals

Keyword

locusts (the locust birds are their things), locusts (and locust bird or ||kerri), locusts (if the locust bird is killed they disappear), locusts (prohibitions relating to), locust birds (||kerri), locust birds (and |han≠kass'o's grandfather, Tsatsi), locust birds (prohibitions relating to), locust birds (the treatment of), locust birds (respecting), locust birds (throwing stones at), locust birds (if they are killed the locusts and the birds disappear and people become ill), locust birds (are locust's things), locust birds ('locust's little birds they are'), illness (of the throwing arm), illness (caused by the ill-treatment of swallows and locust birds), illness (and the killing of locust birds), stones (throwing them at locust birds causes illness and is prohibited), stones (|han≠kass'o told not to throw them at locust birds by Tsatsi), |han≠kass'o (about his maternal grandfather, Tsatsi), |han≠kass'o (his personal history), |han≠kass'o (how Tsatsi told him not to throw stones at locust birds), Tsatsi (|han≠kass'o's maternal grandfather), Tsatsi (told |han≠kass'o not to throw stones at locust birds), Tsatsi (his behaviour), Tsatsi (his temperament), Tsatsi ('was not wont to be patient'), Tsatsi (his personal history), personal history (of Tsatsi and |han≠kass'o), personal history (|han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi ordered him not to throw stones at the locust birds), name (the locust bird is called the ||kerri), bird (the locust bird or ||kerri), respect (for the locust bird or ||kerri), teaching (of children about respecting the locust bird or ||kerri), teaching (|han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi ordered him not to throw stones at the locust birds), education (of children about respecting the locust bird or ||kerri), education (|han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi ordered him not to throw stones at the locust birds)

Story Pages

8763-8765

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