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Overview
Children searching for bee holes see a boar’s nostrils in its resting place and mistake them for the openings they want. They fetch wood and insert it, provoking the animal to grunt and charge. The children flee and fall in fear. Horses, a man on foot and greyhounds then arrive. The boar comes out and speaks, saying that it has not lived by eating sheep or goats and announcing a killing before it attacks. Its retaliatory charge kills a horse, then the pedestrian and then two greyhounds.
A hunter next encounters it with a dog named Guetâl, glossed by the text as the killer. He sets that dog on the boar. It seizes the animal by the hock and holds it until the hunter’s auxiliaries arrive and kill it. The complete short tale thus distinguishes the children’s initial mistake, the boar’s spoken retaliation, its successive victims and the final coordinated hunt. Guetâl is the named dog in the ending, not another name for the boar; no revival follows the killing.
Origins & earliest records
Basset (1897), no. 86, La vengeance du sanglier, complete p. 48. Source note 161, p. 274, names Aziz Lakhdar ben Amar at Sedrata in 1896 and points to Notes sur le Chaouia, pp. 22 and 28–32.
Records & interpretation
Whole original page 87 read, including the final dog-assisted killing; original source note on page 313, printed p. 274, inspected.
Selected bibliography
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Nouveaux contes berbères
No. 86, full p. 48; source note 161, p. 274.
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- Primary communicated animal tale in collected translation; original facsimiles inspectedOriginal complete animal narrative and source noteResearch access: 2026-10-05
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