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Overview
The selected Louyi account describes coming upon a very tall tree while walking. A visitor hears it speaking and also hears the sound of water. Listening carefully reveals no blowing wind, yet the tree moves its branches and leaves. The combination of voice, water sound and motion without wind marks this particular encounter as extraordinary.
The passage says that meeting a tree acting in this way means that the person will become very wealthy and become a chief. It does not provide a named visitor, a later enthronement episode, a particular tree species or an explanation of who speaks through it. Jacottet notes that he could learn nothing more about the mysterious tree. This witness is therefore kept separate from the collection’s moving ornament tree and branchless cattle-origin tree: neither their movements, ownership tests nor cattle episodes are present in this short account.
Origins & earliest records
E. Jacottet, Études sur les langues du Haut-Zambèze, troisième partie: Textes Louyi (1901), LXXV, p. 146. Louyi text, French translation and surrounding collector notes inspected together; individual narrator not securely assigned from the contents-marker evidence.
Records & interpretation
Complete selected passage and its notes read in the original 1901 edition, LXXV, p. 146. Natural appearance, reported supernatural interpretation and collector uncertainty remain separately attributed; no first oral date is inferred.
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Études sur les langues du Haut-Zambèze, troisième partie: Textes Louyi
LXXV, p. 146; complete bilingual passage and notes.
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- Primary bilingual collected accountJacottet 1901, Textes Louyi: LXXV, p. 146Research access: 2026-10-05
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