"When there is an animal in the bush, I feel a tapping on my arm. My heart also starts pounding and I say to myself, 'am I going to hunt?'"

"My grandfather took me into the bush when I was very young. That's when I learned to hunt and feel the tappings. My grandfather would ask me, 'Do you feel that?' That's how I learned to feel the tappings."

"The tapping can also be along the chest or on the wrist. If the animal is a female, the tapping will be on the right arm, whereas the left arm will signal that it is a male animal. The tappings will tell you whether it is a young or old animal. It also tells you if the animal is small or large. The tapping is stronger when it is a big animal."

"If the Sky God gives you an animal, that animal will speak to your heart. Your heart will be happy, that is, quiver and vibrate when the animal is nearby. God brings the animals to us. It is God who makes these things happen. God makes the animal come near us and cause our heart to vibrate."

"If feels like God pulls me toward the animal and pulls the animal toward me. It is a pulling in both directions. The n/om kxaosi say that God has a rope attached between the animal and me. That is what God pulls. I feel those ropes pulling me, but only the n/om kxaosi see the ropes."

"Sometimes I have a kabi (ancestral visitation by spiritual vision) of the animal and when I wake up I know it is time to hunt. The ancestors may come to me and say, "In the morning when you wake up, you must get up and kill this animal. But don't tell anyone. Otherwise the animal will go away." When the animal is shown to you in a kabi, you must go and hunt alone. Otherwise the animal will not be there."

"God or the ancestors can also tell you where the poison is -- where the trees may be found with the larvae that we use on our arrows."

"God can choose a person to be a hunter of a particular animal. God gave me the kudu. That is the animal I am connected to and I am able to be pulled toward it. The Sky God made me a kudu hunter. God gave me the kudu so I can hunt it. The kudu and I walk side by side. It's like God made a special connection between the kudu and me."

"The kudu gave me a song. When I feel a pulling toward a kudu, I sing that song. I keep singing it in my heart as I am pulled toward the kudu in the hunt. I sing it during the whole hunt."

"Sometimes in a kabi, I will look into the eyes of a kudu. It makes me shake and feel n/om. I sometimes see my own eyes reflected in the kudu's eyes. That makes me jump and feel hot. There are times when I touch the kudu in my kabi."

"When I pull back the string of my bow and move it up and down, I am trying to find where the pull is strongest. I could close my eyes and shoot the animal because it is the pulling that aims the arrow. Shooting is more "feeling the pull" than "aiming with your eyes." God makes all of this happen. I know God is present when I feel the pulling. This means that God has brought the animal to me."

"The Sky God is the hunter and I am God's bow and arrow. I feel closest to the Sky God when I feel him shooting me. When this happens, I know the animal will die and provide meat. This makes me very happy and it makes God very happy. This is God's work."

"A hunter is a special kind of shaman doing a special kind of work for God. I am now old and my eyes are getting bad. There are only two great hunters left -- my son and me. All the other great hunters have died. I still make my arrows out of bone."

"I like talking about these things. It makes me happy."

Cwi (one of the last great Bushman hunters)