s was thus engaged, he made his escape. This, it will be
observed, is the climax of a negro legend entirely different from Daddy
Jack's story of the Bear that nursed the Alligators, though the rock
becomes a fallen tree. In the "Story of the Lion and the Little
Jackal,"[i_9] the same climax takes the shape of an episode. The Lion
pursues the Jackal, and the latter runs under an overhanging rock,
crying "Help! help! this rock is falling on me!" The Lion goes for a
pole with which to prop up the rock, and so the Jackal escapes. It is
worthy of note that a tortoise or terrapin, which stands next to Brother
Rabbit in the folk-lore of the Southern negroes, is the cause of
Hlakanyana's death. He places a Tortoise on his back and carries it
home. His mother asks him what he has there, and he tells her to take it
off his back. But the Tortoise would not be pulled off. Hlakanyana's
mother then heated some fat, and attempted to pour it on the Tortoise,
but the Tortoise let go quickly, and the fat fell on Hlakanyana and
burnt him so that he died. The story concludes: "That is the end of this
cunning little fellow."

Theal also gives the story of Demane and Demazana,[i_10] a brother and
sister, who were compelled to run away from their relatives on account
of bad treatment. They went to live in a cave which had a very strong
door. Demane went hunting by day, and told his sister not to roast any
meat in his absence, lest the cannibals should smell it and discover
their hiding-place. But Demazana would not obey. She roasted some meat,
a cannibal smelt it, and went to the cave, but found the door fastened.
Thereupon he tried to imitate Demane's voice, singing:

"_Demazana, Demazana,
Child of my mother,
Open this cave to me.
The swallows can enter it.
It has two apertures._"

The cannibal's voice was hoarse, and the girl would not let him in.
Finally, he has his throat burned with a hot iron, his voice is changed,
and the girl is deceived. He enters and captures her. Compare this with
the story of the Pigs, and also with the group of stories of which Daddy
Jack's "Cutta Cord-la!" is the most characteristic. In Middle Georgia,
it will be observed, Brother Rabbit and his children are substituted for
the boy and his sister; though Miss Devereux, of Raleigh, North
Carolina, who, together with her father, Mr. John Devereux, has laid the
writer under many obligations, gathered a story among the North Carolina
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