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Specimens of Bushman Folklore
Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd · 1911
Original text in ǀXam.
A San language, ǀxam, recorded in the 1870s from prisoners entrusted to two scholars in Cape Town; it is now extinct.
Tale · 13 parts · about 68 000 words · about 4 h 56 of reading
Contents
A. Mythology, Fables, Legends, and Poetry
- I. The Mantis25 min
- II. Sun and Moon17 min
- III. Stars17 min
- IIIa. Other Myths12 min
- IV. Animal Fables24 min
- V. Legends29 min
- VI. Poetry9 min
B. History (Natural and Personal)
- VII. Animals and their Habits—Adventures with them—and Hunting29 min
- VIII. Personal History22 min
- IX. Customs and Superstitions48 min
- Appendix. A Few ǃKuŃ Texts. The Doings of ǀΧUé Are Many36 min
About this text
Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd († 1875): public-domain work. The text is that of la transcription établie par Erostrate sur le fac-similé d'Internet Archive (Specimens of Bushman Folklore, collected by the late W. H. I. Bleek and L. C. Lloyd, edited by the latter, with an introduction by George McCall Theal, London, George Allen, 1911). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
Note on the edition (in French): Traduction anglaise des textes ǀxam et ǃkuń, avec la préface, l'introduction de Theal, les notes et les provenances ; le texte ǀxam des pages de gauche, l'analyse grammaticale, les planches et l'index ne sont pas repris. Noms ǀxam relus sur l'image ; les signes souscrits de l'imprimé ne sont pas rendus. Texte établi en collationnant deux lectures du scan.
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