When a man's flesh moves

When a man's flesh moves

Wilhelm Bleek notebooks

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

A note describing the excising of poisoned flesh from a wound. The flesh is warm and moves when alive but gets cold and dies.

1) See also <i>The Mantis turned into a hartebeest</i>, 2) This story is found in Book XXIV

story

October 1873

Custom and daily life

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