South-African Folk-talesBaker, 1910 - 151 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 141 - Go thou to men, and tell them, As I die, and dying live, so ye shall also die, and dying live." The insect started with the message, but whilst on his way, was overtaken by the hare, who asked : " On what errand art thou bound ? " The insect answered, " I am sent by the Moon to men, to tell them that as she dies and dying lives, they also shall die and dying live.
الصفحة 50 - That wretch ! [said the Jackal] It is all her doing ! I shall kill her straight off! " and away he again belabored the hide, while his wife and children uttered such a dismal howl, that the Lion begged of him to leave off flogging his wife. After cooling down a little, he invited Uncle Lion to come up, and have something to eat. The Lion, after several ineffectual attempts to scale the precipice, had to give it up. The Jackal, always ready for emergencies, suggested that a riem * should be lowered...
الصفحة 117 - They did so, and, as they were many, the Ostriches were obliged to run along through the midst of them. During this they did not move, but, remaining always in the same places, called each to the other, 'Are you there?' and each one answered, 'I am here.
الصفحة 141 - With these words he ran off, and when he reached Men, he said, "I am sent by the Moon to tell you: 'As I die, and dying perish, in the same manner ye shall also die and come wholly to an end.
الصفحة 142 - Then the hare returned to the Moon, and told her what he had said to men. The Moon reproached him angrily, saying, " Darest thou tell the people a thing which I have not said ?" With these words she took up a piece of wood, and struck him on the nose. Since that day the hare's nose is slit.
الصفحة 143 - As I die and rise to life again, so shall you die and rise to life again." Accordingly the hare went to men, but either out of forget fulness or malice he reversed the message and said, "As I die and do not rise to life again, so you shall also die and not rise to life again.
الصفحة 76 - ... sticky black substance found on beehives should be spread all over him, and that he should then go and stand at the entrance of the dam, on the water level, so that the jackal might tread upon him and stick fast. This was accordingly done, and the tortoise posted there. "The next day, when the jackal came, he approached the water very cautiously, and wondered to find no one there. He then ventured to the entrance of the water, and remarked how kind they had been in placing there a large black...
الصفحة 144 - Of this story, too, there are various versions, and in one of them the end is as follows : — ' The hare, having returned to the Moon, was questioned as to the message delivered, and the Moon, having heard the true state of the case, became so enraged with him that she took up a hatchet to split his head ; falling short, however, of that, the hatcheb fell upon the upper lip of the hare, and cut it severely. Hence it is that we see the "hare-lip.
الصفحة 57 - Jackal went to get some water. He was close to the water when he saw Lion. He at once ran away, and Lion ran after him. He ran into a hole under a tree, but Lion caught his tail before he got far in. He said to him: "That is not my tail you have hold of: it is a root of the tree. If you do not believe me, take a stone and strike it, and see if any blood comes.
الصفحة 135 - You have also now a comfortable place !" * * * Now the Woman took the first milk of as many cows as calved, and put it into the calabash where her daughter's heart was ; the calabash increased in size, and in proportion to this the girl grew again inside it.