West African Folk Tales

West African Folk Tales PDF Author: Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486427641
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Book Description
Presents twenty-one traditional tales from West Africa, including "The Greedy but Cunning Tortoise," "The Boy in the Drum," and "The Magic Cooking Pot."

West African Folk Tales

West African Folk Tales PDF Author: Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486427641
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Book Description
Presents twenty-one traditional tales from West Africa, including "The Greedy but Cunning Tortoise," "The Boy in the Drum," and "The Magic Cooking Pot."

How Stories Came Into the World

How Stories Came Into the World PDF Author: Joanna Troughton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780216926059
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Book Description
Once only Mouse knew, and kept to himself, the stories of how the world came to be until angry Lightning broke down Mouse's door and the stories escaped into the world.

West African Folktales

West African Folktales PDF Author: Steven H. Gale
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Book Description
Readers everywhere and of any age will be both entertained and instructed by these timeless stories--more than 40 tales of human foibles, magic, and nature--representing fifteen countries, including Angola, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Liberia, Ghana, and Senegal.

West African Folk-tales

West African Folk-tales PDF Author: William Henry Barker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Book Description
Thirty-six tales from Africa's Gold Coast, include several "Anansi tales" as well as stories about many African animals.

The Cow-Tail Switch

The Cow-Tail Switch PDF Author: Harold Courlander
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805002980
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Book Description
Contains seventeen stories gathered from the Ashantis of West Africa.

Where Animals Talk

Where Animals Talk PDF Author: Robert Hamill Nassau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky

Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky PDF Author: Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395539637
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.

Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa

Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa PDF Author: Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146551709X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Book Description
MANY years ago a book on the Folk-Tales of the Eskimo was published, and the editor of The Academy (Dr. Appleton) told one of his minions to send it to me for revision. By mischance it was sent to an eminent expert in Political Economy, who, never suspecting any error, took the book for the text of an interesting essay on the economics of "the blameless Hyperboreans." Mr. Dayrell's "Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria" appeal to the anthropologist within me, no less than to the lover of what children and older people call "Fairy Tales." The stories are full of mentions of strange institutions, as well as of rare adventures. I may be permitted to offer some running notes and comments on this mass of African curiosities from the crowded lumber-room of the native mind. I. The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter.--The story, like the tales of the dark native tribes of Australia, rises from that state of fancy by which man draws (at least for purposes of fiction) no line between himself and the lower animals. Why should not the fair heroine, Adet, daughter of the tortoise, be the daughter of human parents? The tale would be none the less interesting, and a good deal more credible to the mature intelligence. But the ancient fashion of animal parentage is presented. It may have originated, like the stories of the Australians, at a time when men were totemists, when every person had a bestial or vegetable "family-name," and when, to account for these hereditary names, stories of descent from a supernatural, bestial, primeval race were invented. In the fables of the world, speaking animals, human in all but outward aspect, are the characters. The fashion is universal among savages; it descends to the Buddha's jataka, or parables, to sop and La Fontaine. There could be no such fashion if fables had originated among civilised human beings. The polity of the people who tell this story seems to be despotic. The king makes a law that any girl prettier than the prince's fifty wives shall be put to death, with her parents. Who is to be the Paris, and give the fatal apple to the most fair? Obviously the prince is the Paris. He falls in love with Miss Tortoise, guided to her as he is by the bird who is "entranced with her beauty." In this tribe, as in Homer's time, the lover offers a bride-price to the father of the girl. In Homer cattle are the current medium; in Nigeria pieces of cloth and brass rods are (or were) the currency. Observe the queen's interest in an affair of true love. Though she knows that her son's life is endangered by his honourable passion, she adds to the bride-price out of her privy purse. It is "a long courting"; four years pass, while pretty Adet is "ower young to marry yet." The king is very angry when the news of this breach of the royal marriage Act first comes to his ears. He summons the whole of his subjects, his throne, a stone, is set out in the market-place, and Adet is brought before him. He sees and is conquered.

A Pride of African Tales

A Pride of African Tales PDF Author: Donna L. Washington
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060249293
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Book Description
A collection of African folktales originating in the storytelling tradition.

African Folk Tales

African Folk Tales PDF Author: Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Book Description
Entertaining stories handed down from generation to generation among tribal cultures include "The Magic Crocodile," "The Hare and the Crownbird," "The Boy in the Drum," 15 others. 19 illustrations.