The Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and the Mantis, or why the (black) Wildebeest has a white or light coloured tail

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Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

The Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and the Mantis. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-30. 8651-8667). The Long-nosed Mice (who are foolish) are hunting Quaggas on the hunting-ground and the Wildebeest does several things to make their hunt unsuccessful, including trampling the Mice as the Quagga stampede. |kaggen (the Mantis) dreams of these things and talks to the Striped Mouse (who is clever). The Striped Mouse outsmarts the Wildebeest and shoots him.

Comments

1) p.8650v: |han≠kass'o heard this from his maternal grandmother (≠kammi); the wildebeest in this story is the black wildebeest, 2) p.8652v: |ßkou grass, 3) p.8658v: an expression for someone who lies dying, 4) p.8659v: what the people say when a man does not return home, 5) p.8663v: the people carry arrows when it rains, 6) See also The Mantis, the Mice and the Beetle and The Lizard, the Mice and the Mantis (includes the song of the Agama lizard), 7) This story is found in Book VIII-30

Type

story

Date

31 July 1879 (started)

Category

|kaggen (the Mantis)

Keyword

|kaggen (the Mantis), |kaggen (and the Wildebeest, the Mice and the Quaggas), |kaggen (his dream about the Wildebeest), |kaggen (predicts things in his dreams), |kaggen (advises the Striped Mouse about defeating the Wildebeest), |kaggen (dreams the Wildebeest is killing the Long-nosed Mice), Early Race (or the First Bushmen), Early Race (the Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and |kaggen are people of), Wildebeest (Black), Wildebeest (and the Mice, the Quaggas and |kaggen), Wildebeest (is a person of the Early Race), Wildebeest (is a man), Wildebeest (accounting for the appearance of the wildebeest), Wildebeest (why it has a white or light-coloured tail), Wildebeest (kills the Long-nosed Mice), Wildebeest (makes a grass tail), Wildebeest (the Striped Mouse shoots him through the armpits), Wildebeest (disguises himself as a Quagga in order to kill people), Wildebeest (makes a tail out of grass), Wildebeest (tramples the Long-nosed Mouse to death), Wildebeest (runs with the Quaggas), Wildebeest (unties bowstrings), Wildebeest (strings his entrails on the bow), Wildebeest (blunts arrow-heads), Wildebeest (is shot by the Striped Mouse), Mice (Long-nosed), Mice (Striped), Mice (the Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and |kaggen), Long-nosed Mice (the Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and |kaggen), Long-nosed Mice (which are foolish), Long-nosed Mice (hunt quaggas), Long-nosed Mice (do not return home from hunting), Long-nosed Mice (are killed by the Wildebeest), Long-nosed Mice (and |kaggen's dream), Long-nosed Mice (the Wildebeest unloosens their bowstrings), Long-nosed Mice (the Wildebeest blunts their arrow-heads), Long-nosed Mice (the Wildebeest tramples their screens of bushes), Long-nosed Mice (the Wildebeest strings his entrails on their bows), Striped Mouse (the Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and |kaggen), Striped Mouse (shoots the Wildebeest through the armpits), Striped Mouse (is advised by |kaggen on defeating the Wildebeest), Striped Mouse (which is clever), Striped Mouse (tricks the Wildebeest), Striped Mouse (and |kaggen's dream), hunting (tactics for chasing Quagga), hunting (and the use of the screen of bushes), hunting (and arrows and bows), hunting (and ostrich-feather brushes fastened to sticks), hunting (and the 'arrow's bag'), hunting (of Quagga by the Mice), hunting (and the Wildebeest, the Mice, the Quaggas and |kaggen)