Congo Life and Folklore
by John H. Weeks
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About this eBook
- Author
- Weeks, John H., 1860-1924
- Title
- Congo life and folklore
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: The Religious tract society,1911.
- Credits
- Peter Becker, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa
- Subject
- Ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 69558
- Release Date
- December 17, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.CONGO LIFE AND FOLKLORE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.PART I Life on the Congo AS DESCRIBED BY A BRASS ROD — Chapter I En Route to Congo — Chapter II My Journey up the Congo — Chapter III My Overland Journey Begins — Chapter IV We reach the Town of my Owner — Chapter V A Funeral Orgy — Chapter VI Our Town Life — Chapter VII The Search for the Witch — Chapter VIII Visitors Arrive — Chapter IX Some Customs, Games, and a Journey — Chapter X Our Reception and Entertainment — Chapter XI Satu visits the White Man — Chapter XII Native Games and Pastimes — Chapter XIII Bakula accompanies an Embassy — Chapter XIV Bakula stays with the White Man — Chapter XV Satu receives a Title — Chapter XVI Hunting and Bush-burning — Chapter XVII Satu and his People go to War — Chapter XVIII Governing, Marketing, and Trading Customs — Chapter XIX An Accusation and the Ordeal — Chapter XX Bakula at School — Chapter XXI Bakula’s Work checked — Chapter XXII Bakula Falsely Accused and Murdered — Chapter XXIII I Find many Changes — Chapter XXIV A Marriage and a Harvest Festival — Chapter XXV Mikula at the Christmas Festival — NOTES TO PART I
- 6.PART II Congo Folklore Tales or Stories told round the Congo Fire — INTRODUCTION TO THE FOLKLORE TALES — I How the Fowl evaded his Debt — II Why the Small-ant was the Winner — III How the Animals imitated the Gazelle and brought Trouble upon Themselves — IV Why the Fowls never shut their Doors — V Why the Dog and the Palm-rat hate each other — VI The Leopard boils his Mother’s Teeth — VII How the Ants saved the Partridge’s Eggs — VIII The Leopard sticks to the Nkondi (Wooden Image) — IX How the Mouse won his Wife — X The Gazelle outwits the Leopard — XI The Gazelle punishes the Palm-rat for breaking his promise — XII How the Crow cheated the Dove and got into Difficulty through it — XXIX The Leopard tries to steal the Gazelle’s Wife — XXX The Gazelle kills the Flies and Mosquitoes, and outwits the Leopard — XXXI The Leopard is Badly Tricked by the Gazelle, Rat and Frog
- 7.INDEX (TO PART I)
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