Case file · Folklore / legend
Kaggen the mantis in the Bleek and Lloyd archive
From 1870 Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd recorded /Xam San narrators in Cape Town telling of /Kaggen, the trickster creator who often took the form of a mantis.
1870 CE · -33.95, 18.48 · status: account
The account
The narrators, among them //Kabbo, some brought from the Breakwater prison, dictated more than 12,000 pages of stories, beliefs and family history at the Bleeks' house in Mowbray. In one tale /Kaggen threw a shoe into the sky to make the Moon. The archive is on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.