Stories that Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San of South Africa
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AcknowledgementsOrthography and pronunciationIntroduction1Life and death in /Xam-ka !au47Kum 1A litany of death49Kum 2Death on the hunting-ground52Kum 3Starvation from drought78The /Xam-ka !ei and animals81Kum 4How [actual symbol not reproducible] Kasin's eldest brother was carried off by a lion83Kum 5A day of adventure and tragedy84Kum 6Leopard-hunting: the fatal adventure of !Kwai-kwa and his companion90Kum 7Adventure with a family of baboons92The giving of names95Kum 8How Mansse obtained the name !Kau /noan97Kum 9Why Dia!kwain's brother Tho-bbo was so named98Artefacts and poisons101Kum 10Arrow-making103Kum 11The Arrow barb107Kum 12Poisons108Kum 13Stone artefacts110Porcupines113Kum 14Sharing porcupine meat115Kum 15The porcupine's tail116The Koranna119Kum 16The escape of /Kannan from the Koranna commando121Kum 17How the approach of a commando was foretold by the mist123Relations with colonists125Kum 18Sir Bartle Frere returns to Cape Town127Kum 19Letter from Dia!kwain to his sister !Kweiten-ta-//ken and her family129Kum 20Dreams of home, and life with the magistrate131Kum 21Gui-an and her mistress, Trina de Klerck133Kum 22Hunting ostriches and bartering their feathers for tobacco135/Kaggen and his family143Kum 23How the Ichneumon discovered what the Mantis (/Kaggen) did with the honey145Kum 24The Mantis's fight with the Cat and the Ichneumon's rebuke153Kum 25The Ichneumon argues with the Meerkats158Kum 26/Kwammang-a is found by crows161Animal tales163Kum 27The lion and the jackals165Kum 28A gemsbok becomes a lion168Kum 29The old woman who was carried off by a hyena169Kum 30The /Kain-/Kain, the girls and the Mantis171Kum 31The first /Xam man brings home a young lion174The Early Race207Kum 32A man put into a mouse skin turns into a lion209Kum 33People of the Early Race hunt lions211Kum 34About a moth called !kum !kum and said to pour lice upon them215Kum 35The fox and the Koranna commando217Kum 36The youth of the Early Race who warned those at home of the approach of a Koranna commando219Kum 37How the rain in the form of an eland was shout by one of the Early Race of people222Kum 38The woman was killed by the baboons224Ritual relations with animals227Kum 39The Mantis tries to save the hartebeest229Kum 40The killing of a white springbok233Kum 41The springbok's tongue234Kum 42When game has been shot235Kum 43The [actual symbol not reproducible] Nuturu237The moon245Kum 44The moon not to be laughed at247Kum 45Hunting with a dog and asking the moon for luck248Kum 46The moon, moths and game249Kum 47The moon and the hare253Shamans255Kum 48Shamans and swallows257Kum 49Karosses must not be beaten upon the ground259Kum 50A rock painting261Kum 51//Kabbo causes rain to fall263New maidens267Kum 52A ceremony performed by /Xam girls at puberty269Kum 53Men turned into trees by the glance of a new maiden271Kum 54New maidens and the rain273Kum 55The girl who made locusts277Kum 56New maidens and frog278References and suggested reading281
