Of the 21 narratives relating to ǀKaggen collected by Bleek and Lloyd, 15 emphasise ǀKaggen's quarrelsome, greedy and anti-social nature, while the remaining six portray him as primarily benevolent and helpful. His character in this latter group of narratives most closely resembles the ǀKaggen of von Wielligh's collection – that of the benevolent overseer intervening helpfully in the affairs of others. While there are several points of overlap between these two groups, so radical is the difference between the character of ǀKaggen in each group, and so different is his role within the narratives, that it is necessary to treat them separately.

Paul Radin discovered a similar dichotomy in the trickster cycle of the Winnebago Indians but regarded it as the intrusion of one distinct group of culture-hero narratives upon another purely trickster-centred cycle (Radin 1956: 155ff). However, given ǀKaggen's dual religious nature there are more grounds for assuming that the ǀXam narratives reveal a genuine ambiguity concerning ǀKaggen's character than that they represent a welding together of disparate groups.

What shall be termed ‘Group A’ contains the following narratives:

Group B contains:

The validity of this division will become more apparent as the discussion proceeds but, apart from the difference in ǀKaggen's character in each group, certain other differences may also be mentioned at this stage. All group A narratives situate ǀKaggen within the same family unit.