Folk-Lore/Volume 30/Sechuana Proverbs

by Leonard Cyril Wharton

Sechuana Proverbs.

Sechuana Proverbs, with Literal Translations and their European Equivalents. By Solomon T. Plaatje. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. 1916.

This little volume has reached us some time after publication, but it deserves the attention of students of proverb literature. The collection contains 732 examples, printed in three columns—the first containing the Sechuana proverbs, the second a literal translation, the third parallels from European collections. “In the dark people hold to one another’s cloaks”—“Adversity makes strange bedfellows”; “The early riser alone gets it, not the late riser”—“The early bird catches the worm”; “Those who pick wild berries in the same wood do not love each other”—“Two of a trade seldom agree”; “A potter eats out of a broken dish”—“A shoemaker’s wife is never well shod.” The book shows a wide acquaintance with the literature of proverbs.

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