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The Girl Who Made Stars and Other Bushman Stories
by
Greg McNamee

Contents

Introduction

Animal Stories

The Mantis Assumes the Form of a Hartebeest

Gaunu-tsaxau, the Baboons, and the Mantis

The Story of the Leopard Tortoise

The Hyena's Revenge

The Lion Jealous of the Voice of the Ostrich

The Resurrection of the Ostrich

The Vultures, Their Elder Sister, and Her Husband

The Stone Man, the Lioness, and the Children

The Mason Wasp and His Wife

The Frog's Story

The Narru and Her Husband

The Young Man of the Ancient Race
Who Was Carried off by a Lion

Sun, Moon, and Stars

The Children Are Sent to Throw the Sleeping Sun into the Sky

The Wife of the Dawn's Heart Star

The Origin of Death

Do Not Look at the Moon when Game Has Been Shot

The Girl Who Made Stars

The Great Star Gaunu, Singing, Names the Other Stars

What the Stars Say

Wind and Rain

The Child of the Wind

The Wind

Kagara and Haunu, Who Fought Each Other with Lightning

A Woman of the Early Race and the Rain Bull

Songs

The Cat's Song

The Song of the Caama Fox

The Songs of the Blue Crane

The Old Woman's Song

A Song Sung by the Star Gaunu, and by Bushman Women

Sirius and Canopus

The Song of the Bustard

The Song of the Springbok Mothers

A Song on the Loss of a Tobacco Pouch

The Broken String

The Death of the Lizard

The Song of the Leopard

Prayer to the Young Moon

Hunters

The Leopard and the Jackal 109

Doings of the Springbok

Habits of the Bat and the Porcupine

The Kaukau Bird and the Wild Cat

The Baboons and the Hunter

A Lion's Story

The Man Who Found a Lion in a Cave

Some Hunting Observations

Dreams and Beliefs

Bushman Presentiments

Prayers for the Arrival of Canopus and Sirius

The Use of the Goin-goin

Getting Rid of Bad Dreams

Two Apparitions

The Jackal's Heart Is Not to Be Eaten

Signs Made by Bushmen to Show Where They Have Gone

A Bushman, Becoming Faint from the Sun's Heat,
Throws Earth into the Air

Death

Snakes, Lizards, and a Certain Small Antelope,
When Seen Near Graves, Are to Be Respected

The Relations of Wind, Moon & Cloud to Humans after Death

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