Leopards, lions and phrases

Leopards, lions and phrases

Wilhelm Bleek notebooks

|a!kunta (Stoffel) (I)

A leopard jumps out of a bush and grasps a man's head in its claws. The man slowly returns to his house to lie down and nurse his wounded head. In what seems to be the same story a lion jumps out at a man and bites him, killing him. The lion places the man's body in the shade of a tree.

1) This story is found in Book I

story

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Plants and animals

leopard (which bites a man), lion (which bites a man), lion (and leopards), lion (which places the man's body in shade of tree), man (bitten by a lion), man (grabbed by a leopard), man (his body placed in the shade of a tree), tree (man's body placed by a lion in its shade)

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