Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa

About this eBook

Author

Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917

Credits

Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Suzanne Shell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore

Subject

Folklore -- Nigeria, Southern

Category

Text

eBook-No.

34655

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34655

Release Date

December 14, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FOLK STORIES — FROM — SOUTHERN NIGERIA WEST AFRICA — BY
2. 2.ELPHINSTONE DAYRELL, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I. — DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, SOUTHERN NIGERIA — WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
3. 3.ANDREW LANG — WITH FRONTISPIECE — LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. — 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON — NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA — 1910
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.INTRODUCTION — FOOTNOTES
6. 6.FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA
7. 7.I — The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter — FOOTNOTES
8. 8.II — How a Hunter obtained Money from his Friends the Leopard, Goat, Bush Cat, and Cock, and how he got out of repaying them
9. 9.III — The Woman with Two Skins
10. 10.IV — The King's Magic Drum
11. 11.V — Ituen and the King's Wife
12. 12.VI — Of the Pretty Stranger who Killed the King
13. 13.VII — Why the Bat flies by Night
14. 14.VIII — The Disobedient Daughter who Married a Skull
15. 15.IX — The King who Married the Cock's Daughter — FOOTNOTES
16. 16.X — The Woman, the Ape, and the Child
17. 17.XI — The Fish and the Leopard's Wife; or, Why the Fish lives in the Water
18. 18.XII — Why the Bat is Ashamed to be seen in the Daytime
19. 19.XIII — Why the Worms live Underneath the Ground
20. 20.XIV — The Elephant and the Tortoise; or, Why the Worms are Blind and Why the Elephant has Small Eyes
21. 21.XV — Why a Hawk kills Chickens
22. 22.XVI — Why the Sun and the Moon live in the Sky
23. 23.XVII — Why the Flies Bother the Cows
24. 24.XVIII — Why the Cat kills Rats
25. 25.XIX — The Story of the Lightning and the Thunder
26. 26.XX — Why the Bush Cow and the Elephant are bad Friends
27. 27.XXI — The Cock who caused a Fight between two Towns
28. 28.XXII — The Affair of the Hippopotamus and the Tortoise; or, Why the Hippopotamus lives in the Water
29. 29.XXIII — Why Dead People are Buried
30. 30.XXIV — Of the Fat Woman who Melted Away
31. 31.XXV — Concerning the Leopard, the Squirrel, and the Tortoise
32. 32.XXVI — Why the Moon Waxes and Wanes
33. 33.XXVII — The Story of the Leopard, the Tortoise, and the Bush Rat
34. 34.XXVIII — The King and the Ju Ju Tree — FOOTNOTES
35. 35.XXIX — How the Tortoise overcame the Elephant and the Hippopotamus
36. 36.XXX — Of the Pretty Girl and the Seven Jealous Women
37. 37.XXXI — How the Cannibals drove the People from Insofan Mountain to the Cross River (Ikom)
38. 38.XXXII — The Lucky Fisherman — FOOTNOTES
39. 39.XXXIII — The Orphan Boy and the Magic Stone — FOOTNOTES
40. 40.XXXIV — The Slave Girl who tried to Kill her Mistress
41. 41.XXXV — The King and the 'Nsiat Bird
42. 42.XXXVI — Concerning the Fate of Essido and his Evil Companions — FOOTNOTES
43. 43.XXXVII — Concerning the Hawk and the Owl
44. 44.XXXVIII — The Story of the Drummer and the Alligators
45. 45.XXXIX — The 'Nsasak Bird and the Odudu Bird
46. 46.XL — The Election of the King Bird (the black-and-white Fishing Eagle) — FOOTNOTES — THE END
47. 47.BY ANDREW LANG — LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. — LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA

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