The rain sorcerer ||kunn; two of ||kunn's children

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

<i>Information regarding //kunn was also given by /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-20. 7746-7749).</i> |han≠kass'o speaks of the rainmaker, ||kunn, (who he observed making rain fall) and his relations.

Comments

1) p.7745v: |han≠kass'o had personally seen ||kunn make the rain fall, 2) p.7746v: details of ||kunn's relationship with |han≠kass'o, 3) p.7748v: ||kunn had died by the time |han≠kass'o returned from the Breakwater Convict Station, 4) See <i>'Oud Bakkis' or 'One Nose'</i>, 5) This story is found in Book VIII-20

Type

story

Date

15 - 16 October 1878

Category

History (personal)

The Rain and Rain's water

Custom and daily life

Keyword

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