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Author : Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486149813
Collection of traditional folk tales introduces a host of interesting people and unusual animals — among them "The Cricket and the Toad," "The Tortoise and His Broken Shell," and "The Boy in the Drum."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0192750763
This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place 'where stories grow on trees'. Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the greatest of them all - Ananse the spider. The stories are full of larger-than-life characters and situations; and include the tale of how Ananse got his thin waist, how Crocodile learnt his lesson, and how Monkey managed not to get eaten by Shark.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000078222043
The Orphan Girl includes a fascinating introduction exploring the roots of the storytelling tradition in the history and culture of West Africa. Each country is represented by several stories, a map and brief information. To compile these tales, Kent State professor and storyteller Buchi Offodile searched villages for elders who remembered the old stories. These 41 tales are culled from a lifetime of listening, reading, and researching.
Author : Joanna Troughton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 021692605X
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.
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : IND:30000050862634
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.
Author : William Henry Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B4506177
Thirty-six tales from Africa's Gold Coast, include several "Anansi tales" as well as stories about many African animals.
Author : Hugh Vernon-Jackson,Yuko Green
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0486405532
Presents eighteen traditional tales from West Africa, including "The Tortoise and the Leopard, " "The Story of Muhammadu, " and "The Magic Crocodile."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Peter Bedrick Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015025190235
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 stoires escaped into the world.
Author : B. A. M. I. Ogumefu
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465517326
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395539633
Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465517098
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.
Author : Richard A. Spears
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810109933
Collection of West African folktales drawn from prose narratives, proverbs, riddles, and songs.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 0192741721
This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place "where stories grow on trees." Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the greatest of them all--Ananse the spider. The stories are full of larger-than-life characters and situations, and include the tale of how Ananse got his thin waist, how Crocodile learnt his lesson, and how Monkey managed not to get eaten by Shark.
Author : Harold Courlander,George Herzog
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805002987
Contains seventeen stories gathered from the Ashantis of West Africa.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:711381427
