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Pensa seeks help from a wise man healer, who advises him to make a fire and set a trap using the smallest insect to tempt the bird. Unbeknown to Pensa, the healer and the Pam-Pam bird are friends and warn the bird about the trap. The bird is lured by the grasshopper, captured, and begs for freedom.","Pam-Pam bird  \nWriter: Traditional San story Illustration: Manyeka Arts Trust Pensa Limungu, Kapilolo Mahongo and Marlene Winberg  \nEnglish Traditional Story  \nPam-Pam bird  \nWriter: Traditional San story Illustration: Manyeka Arts Trust Pensa Limungu, Kapilolo Mahongo and Marlene Winberg  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2014, Manyeka Arts Trust  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nPam-Pam bird  \nWriter: Traditional San story  \nIllustration: Manyeka Arts Trust  \nPensa Limungu, Kapilolo Mahongo and Marlene Winberg  \nPensa was the best hunter in the whole Kalahari Desert. He brought home fat animals and fed his family well. There was this bird, the Pam-Pam bird, which Pensa wanted to catch. The bird’s tail feathers were perfect for his arrows. The problem was, he could never manage to trap or shoot Pam-Pam. Pensa’s arrows would fly through the air just like abird- if only he could catch Pam-Pam and pull out his tail feathers!  \nPensa went to the wise man, their healer. He asked for help.“Please guide me to catch the Pam-Pam bird. I need his feathers for my bow and arrows. What must do to catch him?” The healer replied,“Go and make afire. When all the insects run away from your fire, you must catch the smallest of them. Make a trap and place this little insect inside your trap. It will tempt the Pam-Pam bird.”  \nPensa did not know that the healer and the Pam-Pam bird were friends. Pam-Pam often visited the healer. They exchanged stories.“I warn you,” said the healer when Pam-Pam bird visited him,“I have told the hunter how to catch you. When you see a fire in the veld, you must fly far away. I want to see which one of you will win.”  \nIn the meantime, Pensa started his hunt for the PamPam bird. He sat in the veld and rubbed and rubbed his fire sticks. When the smoke appeared, he blew into the fine grass around his fire sticks, until the little flame appeared and became a fire. The insects around the flaming grass flew away, but Pensa managed to catch a young grasshopper. He put it into his trap.  \nThe Pam-Pam bird could not resist the juicy young grasshopper in Pensa’s trap. He decided to fly down and grab it quickly with his sharp beak. Pensa heard Pam-Pam bird’s cry,“Pampam, pam-pam, pam-pam.”Pensa ran to his trap. The bird was trapped!  \nPam-Pam bird begged Pensa to set him free.“Oh no,”said Pensa,“I have wanted to catch you for a very long time. Today you are mine! Your feathers will make my arrow fly through the air, just like you.”","cbCaihPDh7dQlCK5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihPDh7dQlCK5","pdf",7753865,1,16,"English","en",105,"# Pam-Pam bird\n## Pensa’s desire for feathers\n## The healer’s instructions\n## The friends’ warning\n## The trap and capture","[{\"question\":\"Why does Pensa want to catch the Pam-Pam bird?\",\"answer\":\"Pensa wants the Pam-Pam bird’s tail feathers for his bow and arrows, so his arrows will fly properly through the air.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the healer advise Pensa to do?\",\"answer\":\"The healer tells Pensa to make a fire, then catch the smallest insect after the insects run away, and place it in a trap to tempt the Pam-Pam bird.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the Pam-Pam bird respond, and what happens at the end?\",\"answer\":\"Pam-Pam is tempted by the grasshopper in Pensa’s trap and flies down to grab it. 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