Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Week 7 Reading Diary: Nigerian Folk Stories

Nigerian Folk Stories by Elphinstone Dayrell

Witch kills rival towns king by seducing him and then cutting off his head. King was a bad person, so witch is revered. Bats go do not come out during the daytime because one bat tricked a friend into boiling himself, so he had to hide from the whole town and kind who were coming for him. Fish cannot come onto land because he kept having sex with the leopards wife, betraying the leopard. So the kind banished the fish to the water. Ants and worms get into a fight, ants win by landslide. So, Kind banishes worms to the ground for the rest of existence. Hawks kill chickens to repay unpaid dowry. Water forced sun and moon into sky.


Calabar Nigeria 
Source: UnTextbook

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