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language and time the tales form a common tradition and mythology the introduction is very lengthy and talks in detail about bushman society lifestyle traditions and the collection process the nharo stories were collected from 14 men female storytellers refused to talk to the male collector and he notes that this probably skewed the contents of the repertoire in the book as well the introduction talks about each storyteller in detail as well as san mythology and religion and the main characters in the stories on top of this each story comes with extensive notes and comments often longer than the story text itself even with all this extra information however most of the stories were a very difficult read for the european reader highlights it was fascinating to read the variants of the hare and the moon one after another they were all basically the same story but the details only formed the full picture together first the fragments only talked about how moon wanted to make people immortal but hare repeated his message wrong and people became mortal instead next we found out that hare was not moon s intended messenger she derailed the real one and gave the false message on purpose finally a longer version revealed that the moon lured hare into his hut and assaulted her which is why she took revenge by distorting his message of immortality the story of the ostrich and the gemsbok was the reverse of many wife kidnapping tales here an old ostrich woman kidnapped herself a handsome gembsok man and other young women had to figure out a way to steal him back connections it was very interesting that the collector included stories that were from the bible retold with local nharo colors and sentiments for example in the myth of adam and eve when god found them hiding in shame after eating the apple he said come out i didn t say i m going to kill you i just told you not to eat the apple because it s bad and he allowed them back home there were also some folktales locals learned from european settlers such as the story of wren and eagle from grimm here with local bird species once again there was an animal race folktale here between ostrich and tortoise one variant even stated that ostrich s legs got skinny from all the hard running tricksters got their own chapter in the book one of them was a small flat headed person named bi he was responsible for stealing fire from ostrich while in some other versions ostrich women stole the fire from an ostrich man animal tricksters were represented by hare and jackal the latter did the horseback riding trick with lion stuck to the tar baby while stealing vegetables and decided the dilemma of the ungrateful rescued snake to save fox s life human tricksters next to bi included the khoisan eyes on the feet pate his whole body covered in toes and the very rowdy and crude pisamboro where to next zimbabwe posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels africa botswana folktales following folktales trickster sunday november 24 2019 spin the globe tell a story come sit next to me spin the globe and stop it by pointing somewhere i will tell you a story from whichever country your finger lands on i have been developing and testing this storytelling program for years i started the following folktales around the world blog series because of it it took lot of waiting and hoping but it finally happened a local library ordered the program i got to go and see if i really can tell a story on the spot from anywhere the kids point at on the globe it appears that i can the library was a lovely setting for the program i was asked to sign my books i got tea and i was surrounded by an art exhibit i brought my own globe the first one i found at home still had the soviet union on it but i managed to rustle up another one that can be dated to the mid 1990s when the kids and families arrived i told them they could come up in pairs one kid to spin the globe and the other to point the program i prepared has one story for every country plus a couple of extras for outlying territories such as greenland or hawaii and at least one for each ocean and larger body of water i also had a few joker tales i could resort to if i drew a blank tricksters for example cover admirable stretches of land i held my breath waiting to see what place the kids would land on even though i was prepared that they would end up pointing at the 97 water surface the kids specifically made sure to aim at dry land instead the first little girl pointed at india which is a pretty easy start in storytelling terms in order to cater to the younger audience as well as pick a shorter story so that we had more time to spin i told the tale about how once upon a time the elephants could fly and how they lost their wings this story allows for a lot of humor and a lot of speculation what problems can flying elephants present and it was a great way to kick off the show next a girl s finger landed on one of the triple borders of central asia which after some hesitation was decided was closest to tajikistan i owe great gratitude to dana sherry at the berkeley silk road house for sharing so many central asian tales with us over the years i ended up telling a goldilocks like tale about an old couple who end up sneaking into the home of some bears in the winter it was a fun story and perfect for the age group the globe continued spinning and next we landed on the korean peninsula the tiny hand covered both koreas i chose to tell the folktale of the story spirits that vow to take revenge on a prince who wouldn t allow them to travel it is not only an old favorite of mine and a fun story to tell but it also conveyed a message about storytelling which the kids easily picked up on so this is why you are telling us stories after this old favorite i got to premiere a new one a girl pointed at uganda and i just happened to have a brand new favorite folktale from there that i discovered the other day it s about a king who has a private zoo he is proud of but the animals suffer in it at this point we had a great conversation about what makes a zoo good for the animals and the kids had a lot of smart things to say they get good food they have enough space there are not too many people or their essential sustenance needs are properly met hello there hermione granger the king in the tale eventually learns to appreciate open nature and lets his animals go home it s a beautiful tale to tell and i m definitely keeping it in the last round a boy landed on the usa florida to be more specific it s lucky that one of my favorite american folktales mockingbirds on fridays just happens to be from florida it s a fun but also touching tale about friendship and about seeing a glimmer of good in everyone the spinning and pointing was completely random and yet it ended up creating a wonderful lineup of stories the kids were engaged enthusiastic and wicked smart i had a great time spending the hour traveling around the globe with them this is definitely one of y favorite storytelling programs to do can t wait for the next invitation posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 11 05 am 1 comment labels children geography libraries performances storytelling monday november 18 2019 many kinds of transformations following folktales around the world 131 eswatini 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 fairy tales from south africa e j bourhill j b drake macmillan co 1908 this book contains 20 stories out of which 12 are swazi folktales the others are from the zulu and other neighboring traditions it is more than a century old and it shows for one it consistently calls all black people kafir which is an outdated term and also uses eurocentric translations for many things among them referring to anything supernatural as fairy or ogre e g fairy bird instead of magic bird it is a book written for european children therefore the introduction is a short and easy read about local customs life and storytelling traditions the stories are enchanting and entertaining and they are accompanied by elegant illustrations highlights setuli king of the birds is an epic tale about a deaf boy who becomes the king of the birds through his own courage and curiosity with his bird army he discovers new lands fights monsters saves people from curses and settles in a new homeland in a journey that reminded me of european hero sagas transformed birds were also the protagonists of the cock s kraal in which warriors wandered into a village full of hens their chief a golden rooster revealed that they had been cursed into fowl until they can defeat a chief stronger than themselves later on when a chief heard about the hen village and thought it would be easy to conquer the rooster and his people soundly defeated his armies and won their human forms back transformation was also at the center of the enchanted buck in this story a bull slaughtered for a girl s wedding magically turned into a man and then a buck and ran away the girl got accused of witchcraft and sent home since no one wanted her as a wife anymore she eventually found the buck in the wilderness and helped him regain his human form for good the story of the unnatural mother despite the horrible title actually took a very nice turn a woman was chased away from home by her son because she secretly put on his clothes and ate his food he told her to bring water from which no animal had ever drunk but in the end it was the animals who helped her and saved her i also loved the ending of the three little eggs where a woman ran away from her abusive husband with her two little children and after going through various adventures she killed a monster and became queen the tale of semai mai the cannibal king was both dark and fascinating a cruel tyrant was turned into a supernatural dog by a fairy doomed to stay in that from until he loyally served someone he kept eating human flesh in a cannibal king s court until he actually became friends with a prince helped him escape but when he tried to start a new life semai mai became jealous and ate him at the end of the story a wise chief defeated the dog who lost all his supernatural powers became an ordinary canine and returned to the other cannibal king to live as a pet for the rest of his life connections the story of the fairy frog reminded me of the european tales of the frog prince except here the frog rescued the girl multiple times when her sisters and a later a monster tried to kill her he even carried her around in his stomach for a while to keep her safe the moss green princess reminded me of the frog bride folktale it was a lovely variant where a father got a monster skin to cover his unloved daughter in and where the two sisters were not rivals but friends and even the favorite daughter got her own happy ending there was once again a false bride folktale with a man eating monster with a carnivorous tail under her skirt where to next botswana posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 12 00 am no comments labels africa eswatini folktales following folktales swaziland sunday november 17 2019 mythoff budapest bestiary fall is here and it was time to have another mythoff in budapest we met at our usual place the premier kultcafé to tell myths to adults although this time we also had three very attentive children under parental supervision the evening was themed bestiary and we all brought stories that involved legendary animals and mythical creatures it seemed to be a popular idea we had more than seventy people in the audience the emcee of the evening was nagy enikő who made sure everything went smoothly and well here is the rundown round one beasts in the family this round featured myths where the creatures formed a part of the family varga fogarasi szilvia told the story of greek creation from chaos to the rise of the olympians hajós erika told a melancholy japanese story about a kitsune and her love for a moral man voting question which myth would you name your music band after winner japanese mythology and a theoretical punk band named fox fur smell round two female beasts this round had two myths were women turned into mythical creatures and both of them from greek mythology klitsie szabad boglárka brought us the story of medusa with wit and humor while bumberák maja told the lyrical touching story of arachne they made a great pair voting question which would you rather take on fighting medusa or competing with athena winner everyone would rather fight medusa go figure round three beasts in the wild this last round had myths where people crossed over into the wilderness first i told the myth of the boongurunguru umaroa s mythical boar from the solomon islands one of my favorite mythical creatures next stenszky cecília told a khanty story about a woman who died in the woods and was reborn as a bear raised by a bear family voting question what would you rather plant in your garden knathy pines of ferns growing on the back of the boongurunguru winner solomon islands the tellers of the winning myths received coffee cups painted with mythical creatures courtesy of enikő the fourth mug was raffled off to the audience the evening went great and we are already preparing for the next one telling love myths for valentine s day posted by a tarkabarka hölgy at 11 05 am 1 comment labels greece japan mythoff mythology performances siberia solomon islands monday november 11 2019 adventures are for girls following folktales around the world 130 lesotho 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 tales from the basotho minnie postma university of texas press 2014 the book contains 23 folktales translated from sesotho to afrikaans and then to english the translator s introduction talks about the culture of the country and the basotho storytelling tradition among many interesting things i learned that lesotho is the country sesotho is the language mosotho is the people of the country and basotho is both the plural of the people and the adjective the stories were collected by a white african woman minnie postma who heard them in her childhood and learned to tell them in their original language as an adult she became a teller and collector retaining the rhythm and language and life of the folktales they were written down from her oral telling which makes the texts exciting and enjoyable the book also contains a type and motif index for the tales and a bibliography highlights i knew in advance what my favorite story was going to be from this book nanabolele shines in the night is the tale of a girl raising her two brothers alone the 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