About new maidens (continued from Bleek's Book XXVII: p.2618)

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

A note has been made, from ||kábbo's information, of a story not yet written down in Bushman, telling how the Rain carried off a girl belonging to the First Bushmen (or the ancient people living before the Bushmen), who afterwards became a frog, her kaross being changed into a springbok, etc. Her people were also transformed. (L II.-37. 3335 rev. and 3336 rev.)-Versions of this transformation into frogs, ascribed chiefly to a new Maiden's acts of disobedience, are given in the Katkop dialect by !kwéiten ta ||kên (L VI.-1. 3930-3958), and by Dia!kwãin. (B XXVII. 2609-2618, continued in L V.-2. 3864-3881). A continuation of a previous story about new maidens (taken in W. Bleek's Book XXVII) in which a new maiden is punished and transformed into a frog when she goes to wash at the spring. This segment of the story accounts for the seclusion of the new maiden in a hut and describes related customs.

Comments

1) This is a continuation of Bleek's story About new maidens in Book XXVII, pp.2609-2618, 2) p.3874v: Dia!kwain says that one gives the girl water in the same way that one would give drink to a small child, 3) p.3876v: Dia!kwain says that one feeds the girl small bite-sized pieces of food, but must not place them directly into her mouth, 4) See also The maiden's story; the Frog's story and A yet unwritten story, about the Rain and one of the First Bushmen girls carried away by a whirlwind and who became a frog, 5) This story is found in Book V-2

Type

story

Date

7 January 1875 (started)

Category

New maidens

The Rain and Rain's water

Transformation

Custom and daily life

Keyword

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