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since spider was their leader he would have won a wife for the effort but the girl s father decided not to make her life miserable so he gave everyone money instead this was not the only wise decision in the book either a crafty woman overreached herself when she set a trap for someone in the hopes of demanding a payment for her stolen goods however the judges examining the case decided that her loss was intentional and thus the decision was not made in favor of the trickster even nzambi the creator mother goddess was called in front of judges once for stealing the world s first drum made by a small wagtail bird she claimed that as creator she had a right to everything but the judges declared that she did not create drums only creatures with free will who had a right to their own inventions therefore nzambi had to pay for the drum and also had to pay a fine for stealing it flora and fauna featured prominently into the stories in one true story a local man described a fight between a gorilla and a chimpanzee in which the latter lost another tale explained why crocodile doesn t eat chicken with the fact that chicken convinced him that they are related since they are both born from eggs connections i once again encountered the tale about the wives who saved their husband together dreamer guide and raiser of the dead brought the man back to life and then demanded to know which one of them was the most valuable the man chose the last one and the men of the village agreed but the women declared that he should have given each of his wives equal appreciation the story of the twin brothers is well known in europe and i have also seen it in africa before one brother sets out on an adventure and dies but the other saves him in this version there was an intriguing house full of mirrors that all showed different places including the forbidden village where the first brother perished sadly after the rescue the two brothers had an argument and they killed each other among the local beliefs there were mentions of people who could shapeshift into crocodiles or leopards the crocodile people even had their own village on a river island a nameless trickster started a fight between two friends by walking between them in a coat that was half red and half blue i knew this story with the yoruba trickster eshu another trickster tale featured rabbit secretly eating up the food he stored with antelope for which antelope captured with with the use of the classic tar baby trick where to next gabon posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels africa animals folktales following folktales republic of congo monday september 16 2019 genets and genesis following folktales around the world 122 democratic republic of congo today i continue the blog series titled following folktales around the world if you would like to know what the series is all about you can find the introduction post here you can find all posts here or you can follow the series on facebook tortoise and crocodile and other folktales from the komo people of the democratic republic of congo barbara thomas amazon kindle services 2011 the twenty tales in this book were collected from the komo people in the democratic republic of congo the collection is intended as a children s book but it does contain stories that might be sensitive for western readers these have been marked with parental guidance warnings the book notes the names of the original storytellers but doesn t assign them to the tales and the introduction is mostly just a foreword about sensitive content highlights i was fascinated by the tale of motondo the magic carpet in which sisters went fishing and wanted to leave their little brother behind he followed anyway and when at night father spider stole the eyes of the girls repeatedly he stole them back eventually he warned his sisters of danger and they wove a magic carpet and flew away to safety the same moral don t leave at home someone who wants to go with you showed up in some of the ashanti folktales in ghana as well i was delighted to find a tale featuring one of my favorite feline creatures the genet the story was fairy simple rooster tricked genet and genet died as a result so his children have been revenge hunting poultry ever since the tale of ingee s betrothal was one of the parental warning tales a man heading out to find a wife took a dump where he was not supposed to and his feces kept rolling after him everywhere as an ever present reminder of shame needless to say he did not get a wife tortoise the resident trickster appeared as a fairly questionable character in many of the stories in tortoise and his friends he invited animals along on a journey then tricked them out of their food and weapons framed them for theft and had them killed he did so with endo the red antelope a symbol for death and many others until mboko the white antelope turned the tricks against him in another tale tortoise pretended to be a midwife for crocodile s wife and ate up all her eggs that s why crocodiles have been hunting tortoises ever since connections i was reminded of adam and eve by the story of abha betombetombe father of the forest where he warned fisherwomen not to eat from his sacred plantains of course they did so he cursed them with monthly bleeding after last week i once again encountered the story about why hens scratch the ground looking for tasty morsels the tale of kaunga and tombai was an all devouring type folktale where a monster ate up everything and everyone until a wild man named kaunga had himself swallowed and rescued everyone by cutting the monster open from the inside and staring a new world as i said before the local trickster is tortoise i was reminded of anansi and his moss covered rock by the tale where tortoise tricked animals into climbing a tree and being eaten by leopard until mboko the white antelope once again came to the rescue there was also another trickster figure he spider who tried to copy elephants and got hurt in the process as tricksters sometimes do where to next the republic of congo posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 1 comment labels africa animals democratic republic of congo folktales following folktales trickster monday september 9 2019 animal friendships animal enemies following folktales around the world 121 central african republic today i continue the blog series titled following folktales around the world if you would like to know what the series is all about you can find the introduction post here you can find all posts here or you can follow the series on facebook central african folk tales an imaginative collection of wisdom for children thomas g schaefer xlibris us 2014 this book features twenty short folktales collected by a peace corps employee in the 1970s before violence broke out in the country the oral tradition was still uninterrupted and stories could be gathered schaefer used these tales to teach english and show children that their own stories were just as valuable as the foreign literature used to teach french he published a larger collection for educational purposes this current ebook is a short selection from those stories all tales are included in english and french and accompanied by cute little drawings highlights out of the origin stories the one about the origin of rivers was the most intriguing it claimed that in the beginning people lived without water drinking juices of fruit and animal blood until a hunter found a well and released the first rivers into the world the strange and eerie tale of birds birs and more birds was included in the book in two slightly different versions this story said that originally there was only one bird in the world the bird of god a hunter trapped it and ate it despite the warnings of his wife and was punished in one story his stomach burst and birds flew out in another he himself transformed into thousands of birds among the animal tales my favorite was the story of pig and tortoise tortoise lent his shell to pig who forgot where he put it and has been rooting around in shame ever since trying to find it and give it back the scratching of hens was similarly explained in a tale where dog and hen shared a meal but the impatient hen ate the top of the rice and left the choice parts in the bottom of the dish she has been scratching ever since to make sure she gets the best bits of food connections image from here animals sometimes helped and sometimes tried to outdo each other in the stories bee and pigeon saved each other elephant and hen had an eating contest which hen won on account of number of items consumed and lion and mosquito fought for the throne of the jungle mosquito won there was also once again a tale where a hunter was rescued from a lion by a mouse that pretended to be a lion hungry monster i was reminded of all the sky raising myths by the tale that explain why there is rainfall it was a story of war between earth and sky earth tried to shatter sky with mountains while sky tried to melt earth with rain even though the moon tried to bring them to peace there is not one famous trickster in residence here according to the collector but rather many tricky animal characters still there was a mention of a mischievous character named tere but only in one tiny story where to next the democratic republic of kongo posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am 1 comment labels africa animals central african republic folktales following folktales monday september 2 2019 the story door following folktales around the world 120 cameroon today i continue the blog series titled following folktales around the world if you would like to know what the series is all about you can find the introduction post here you can find all posts here or you can follow the series on facebook the sacred door and other stories cameroon folktales of the beba makuchi ohio university press 2007 the thirty six tales in this book were recorded between 1979 and 1989 by a lady from cameroon who emigrated into the usa makuchi is beba and she grew up in a living oral tradition with regular storytelling in the evenings children were told that if they told stories in the daylight the ghosts would take their voice she also wrote her master s thesis on folktales she collected and translated but she only started working on this book when she began sharing the stories with american children to bring beba culture closer to them each story comes with useful footnotes and they are peppered with proverbs and wisdom from the afterword we can learn about the history of cameroon and the beba as well as the beba oral tradition and we even find a collection of riddles to open storytelling sessions with highlights i really enjoyed the story of the curious and brave little girl who saved herself from a man eating lion i also encountered women who turned down all suitors in favor of a handsome stranger who turned out to be a cannibal spirit this should be under the connections category but all of them were so unique that i wanted to mention them here in one of them a bunch of fish disguised themselves as suitors they even borrowed a car while in another the girl was rescued from the spirit world inside the belly of a toad with a straw in her mouth so that she could breathe the storyteller explains that these stories were supposed to warn young people that a marriage unites two families and you should not run off and marry strangers i was also thoroughly entertained by the most r rated story of the book about the friendship of penis testicles and vagina or rather the friendship of penis and vagina because testicles offended vagina and she has been refusing to have anything to do with them ever since connections there was yet another story about why bats fly at night in this case due to their quarrel with the sun because the latter did not shine long enough for bat s mother s funeral the story of the feast in the sky was also familiar from both sides of the ocean tortoise joined in with the help of borrowed feathers but when he ate up all the food his bird friends took the feathers back and he had to jump and crack his shell another traveling story motif that made an appearance is a bundle of sticks is harder to break than a single one i was reminded of aesop s tales by the story of the monkey and the bee whose friendship was tested when they tricked each other out of shared meals in this case however they made up in the end and became friends again there are also aesopic parallels to the story of the flutes where a boy lost her flute and the spirits offered him a golden one instead that he humbly refused earning a reward another boy was not so humble and got punished these kind and unkind type tales appeared in quite a few versions in the book both with boys and girls out of the latter kind the best one was the story where the two sisters were hosted and tested by a mysterious drum maker who did everything talking cooking with his buttocks cameroon has a good football team the story of sense pass king was a variant on the clever maid story with a male hero while the unhappy stepchild was a straight up male cinderella story where they even tried the shoe on his foot it was accompanied by a female cinderella as well called dance in the sky where the girl had crocodile skin and wings in her armpits mbaka and the magic ring was a classic dog and cat aladdin type tale except here the magic ring brought success to the hero s soccer career the evil predator that got tricked back into the trap was leopard defeated by monkey and cow the trickster in residence is torokee the tortoise he did the tug o war trick with elephant and hippo and ran the infamous race against hare with the help of his family where to next the central african republic posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels africa cameroon folktales following folktales newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom the 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