Baboons try to shoot people - means of preventing It

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

When shot, baboons will often try and throw the arrow back at the hunter and kill him too. When hunters see a baboon pull out an arrow and hold it in a certain way they must tell it that it is a 'girl's arrow', which will shame the baboon.

Comments

1) p.5916v: this story was told to Dia!kwain by his father (Xaa-ttin), 2) p.5920v: a list of |xam vocabulary (words and sentences), 3) See also <i>Baboons should not be spoken with</i>, 4) This story is found in Book V-24

Type

story

Date

1 February 1876 (started)

Category

Custom and daily life

Plants and animals

Keyword

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