Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus: In Their Own Words

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J.A. Blair, 1868 - 375 pages
 

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Page 205 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Page 11 - The child was lying, for a wonder, quite easy and quiet in the cradle, every now and then cocking his eye, that would twinkle as keen as a star in a frosty night, over at the great fire, and the big pot upon it ; and he looked on with great attention at Mrs. Sullivan breaking the eggs and putting down the egg-shells to boil. At last he asked, with the voice of a very old man, "What are you doing, mammy?" Mrs. Sullivan's heart, as she said herself, was up in her mouth ready to choke her, at hearing...
Page 46 - So on the floor lay Balder dead ; and round Lay thickly strewn swords, axes, darts, and spears, Which all the Gods in sport had idly thrown At Balder, whom no weapon pierced or clove ; But in his breast stood fixt the fatal bough Of mistletoe, which Lok the Accuser gave To Hoder, and unwitting Hoder threw — 'Gainst that alone had Balder's life no charm.
Page 71 - The dreadfull fish, that hath deserv'd the name Of Death, and like him lookes in dreadfull hew; The griesly wasserman, that makes his game The flying ships with...
Page 11 - ... it surely was. The child was lying for a wonder quite easy and quiet in the cradle, every now and then cocking his eye, that would twinkle as keen as a star in a frosty night, over at the great fire, and the big pot upon it ; and he looked on with great attention at Mrs.
Page 334 - When she reached the elephant's stomach, she saw large forests and great rivers, and many high lands; on one side there were many rocks; and there were many people who had built their villages there; and many dogs and many cattle; all was there inside the elephant; she saw, too, her own children sitting there.
Page 213 - ... duck's neck of more delicate structure than the Big Swede's, and wouldn't it surely break when it struck the tarpaulin? This variety of black duck grew as big as a buzzard, and here they were so numerous that clouds of them darkened the moon. Now to deceive them. Paul Bunyan could mimic the voices of all the birds of the air and all the beasts of the fields and woods, save only that of the blue ox, who always replied with a jocular wink when his master attempted to simulate his mellow moo. In...
Page 130 - Popular traditions and rhymes protect their nests, as in the case of the wren, the robin, and the swallow. Occasionally this gift seems to have been acquired by eating or tasting the flesh of a snake or dragon, as Sigurd, in the Volsung tale, first...
Page 178 - And they did so. All kind of food was collected, and bread made ; and they took the handles of digging-picks : they took these that they might fasten them on behind. It was then that they turned into baboons. We do not know any long account of what they did that they might turn into baboons, but only that they thus fastened on the pick-handles ; they grew and became tails ; hair made its appearance on their bodies; their foreheads became overhanging, and so they became baboons. They went to the precipices...
Page 334 - Why did you not roast this flesh?" They said, "If we eat this beast, will it not kill us?" She said, "No; it will itself die; you will not die". She kindled a great fire. She cut the liver, and roasted it and ate with her children. They cut also the flesh, and roasted and ate. All the people which were there wondered, saying, "O, forsooth, are they eating, whilst we have remained without eating any thing?" The woman said, "Yes, yes. The elephant can be eaten".

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