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    Manchild
    Manchild
    Manchild
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    Manchild

    By Khaleel Jooste

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    Before white man set foot on southern African shores, there lived a people, known as the Tree Dwellers. As the name suggests, they preferred to live in the trees. To see a Tree Dweller was a rare sight for they rarely left the safety of their abode. They were people of myth and their stories were that of legend. The men and women were all small, rarely taller than a hickly bush. They're arms were slightly longer than the average person and their feet, well; they were adapted to skillfully wrap around a branch or a tree trunk. A Tree Dweller would never leave the trees, except to hunt. Hunting only took place once a year and this was always to mark the beginning of plenty. The time when nature starts to wake up from its cold, dead slumber and life returns to the barren lands. The animals return and so too the great floods.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKhaleel Jooste
    Release dateMar 1, 2014
    ISBN9781310611865
    Manchild
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    Khaleel Jooste

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      Manchild - Khaleel Jooste

      Manchild

      By Khaleel Jooste

      Copyright Khaleel Jooste 2013

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      1 – The Feast of the Petals

      Before white man set foot on southern African shores, there lived a people, known as the Tree Dwellers. As the name suggests, they preferred to live in the trees. To see a Tree Dweller was a rare sight for they rarely left the safety of their abode. They were people of myth and their stories were that of legend. The men and women were all small, rarely taller than a hickly bush. They're arms were slightly longer than the average person and their feet, well; they were adapted to skillfully wrap around a branch or a tree trunk. A Tree Dweller would never leave the trees, except to hunt. Hunting only took place once a year and this was always to mark the beginning of plenty. The time when nature starts to wake up from its cold, dead slumber and life returns to the barren lands. The animals return and so too the great floods.

      The Tree Dwellers respected nature and lived in harmony with it. They believed in some deity that provided them with sustenance and protection. Once a month they would have a ceremony to give thanks to this being. They believed as long as they gave thanks, that the deity would be pleased and they would continue to prosper. They only consumed meat during the feast of the petals and for the most part, they lived off roots, shrubs and herbs. That which they could gather from the earth. Each Tree Dweller male, had to learn to hunt. For only once he slays a big animal can he choose a mate and start a family. Tree Dwellers rarely had more than two children, the chief, being the only one who had three. Two Tree Dwellers, one from each of his two wives. The third was not a Tree Dweller. He was of them. They referred to him as Manchild. The child of man that found his way to the home of the Tree Dwellers.

      Manchild was much larger than any of the Tree Dwellers and was less adapt to living in the trees. His home was flat on the ground. It had all the makings of a Tree Dweller house. The ropes that

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