A wild cat, when many have been killed by a person changes itself into a lion and kills the slayer

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

The Wild Cat believed to possess the power of turning itself into a lion. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-23. 8080-8083, and 27. 8399 rev., note). |han≠kass'o's grandfather (Tsatsi) told him that a wild cat turns itself into a lion when many of its kind have been killed by hunters.

Comments

1) p.8079v: |han≠kass'o heard this from his maternal grandfather (Tsatsi), 2) pp.8080v-8081v: see |han≠kass'o's dream of a gang of prisoners, 3) p.8082v: (24 December 1878) the people should not sleep because of the lion, 4) See also The lion has the power of turning itself into other things and Children do not say the lion's name at night, 5) This story is found in Book VIII-23

Type

story

Date

December 1878

Category

Transformation

Keyword

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