| Idioom: Hy praat soos 'n DAGGA-ROKER. [boodskap #9556] |
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G.B.
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Idioom : Hy praat soos 'n dagga-roker.
" Bleah praat soos 'n dagga-roker. Ek
dink hy is aan die mal raak daar in die
bundu in Minnesota."
I associate the use of this expression with
the Northern Cape, where I grew up. I think
I was told when I was very young how the
Khoi and the San smoked their dagga. (In
retrospect now it seems such a civilized
and healthy way to do it, through water, like
the people in the Near East with the hookah.)
It is well known that the San especially used
dagga in their religious dances and that they
talked "in tongues" while under the influence.
The word "dagga" probably comes from
the Khoi "daxa-b" but today it is also used
for Indian hemp and for the "bhang" or
hashish introduced to the Cape by the Dutch
from their possessions in the Far East.
The word dagga is also used for any of
several species of "Leonotis" which were
chewed and used medicinally and cosme-
tically by the Khoikhoin. Besides smoking
the leaves various native tribes employ the
leaves' young tops as a remedy for fevers,
anthrax, dysentery etc. Leonotis is found
as a weed round kraals in Natal where it is
known as "insangu". My fondest memory
of Leonotis is of climbing in the Drakens-
berge with companions and walking into a
field of Leonotis higher than us, their bright
orange flowers glowing in the clear sunlight.
Gloudina Bouwer
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