{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/sbf/sbf36.htm","path":"afr/sbf/sbf36.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/sbf/sbf36.htm","text":"Specimens of Bushman Folklore, by W.H.I. Bleek and L.C. Lloyd, [1911]\nMy younger brother-in-law,\n Put my head in the fire.[1]\n My younger brother-in-law,\n My younger brother-in-law,\n Put my head in the fire.\nWhen we startle it up, it flies away; it (cries): \"Wara ||khau, wara ||khau, wara ||khau, ||khau ||khau, ||khau, wara ||khau, wara ||khau, wara ||khau, ||khau ||khau, ||khau!\"\nWhen it stands on the ground, it says: \"A wa,a wa, a wa, a wa!\" when it stands on the ground.\n[1. When the \"Knorhaan Brandkop\" was still a man, his head was thrust into the fire by his brother-in-law, in order to punish him for having surreptitiously married a sister. Since then he is only a bustard.]","title":"Specimens of Bushman Folklore: The Song Of The Bustard.","type":"page"}