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West African folk-tales

West African folk-tales

by W. H. Barker

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Compiler
Sinclair, Cecilia
Title
West African Folk-Tales
Credits
Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject
Tales -- Africa, West
Category
Text
eBook-No.
66923
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66923
Release Date
December 11, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION
  5. 5.I. ANANSI, OR SPIDER, TALES
  6. 6.I. HOW WE GOT THE NAME ‘SPIDER TALES’
  7. 7.II. HOW WISDOM BECAME THE PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE
  8. 8.III. ANANSI AND NOTHING
  9. 9.IV. THUNDER AND ANANSI
  10. 10.V. WHY THE LIZARD CONTINUALLY MOVES HIS HEAD UP AND DOWN
  11. 11.VI. TIT FOR TAT
  12. 12.VII. WHY WHITE ANTS ALWAYS HARM MAN’S PROPERTY
  13. 13.VIII. THE SQUIRREL AND THE SPIDER
  14. 14.IX. WHY WE SEE ANTS CARRYING BUNDLES AS BIG AS THEMSELVES
  15. 15.X. WHY SPIDERS ARE ALWAYS FOUND IN THE CORNERS OF CEILINGS
  16. 16.XI. ANANSI THE BLIND FISHERMAN
  17. 17.XII. ADZANUMEE AND HER MOTHER
  18. 18.XIII. THE GRINDING-STONE THAT GROUND FLOUR BY ITSELF
  19. 19.XIV. “MORNING SUNRISE”
  20. 20.XV. WHY THE SEA-TURTLE WHEN CAUGHT BEATS ITS BREAST WITH ITS FORE-LEGS
  21. 21.XVI. HOW BEASTS AND SERPENTS FIRST CAME INTO THE WORLD
  22. 22.XVII. HONOURABLE MINŪ
  23. 23.XVIII. WHY THE MOON AND THE STARS RECEIVE THEIR LIGHT FROM THE SUN
  24. 24.II. MISCELLANEOUS TALES
  25. 25.XIX. OHIA AND THE THIEVING DEER
  26. 26.XX. HOW THE TORTOISE GOT ITS SHELL
  27. 27.XXI. THE HUNTER AND THE TORTOISE
  28. 28.XXII. THE TAIL OF THE PRINCESS ELEPHANT
  29. 29.XXIII. KWOFI AND THE GODS
  30. 30.XXIV. THE LION AND THE WOLF
  31. 31.‘I will die God’s death’ and ‘I will die the King’s death’
  32. 32.XXVI. THE ROBBER AND THE OLD MAN
  33. 33.XXVII. THE LEOPARD AND THE RAM
  34. 34.XXVIII. WHY THE LEOPARD CAN ONLY CATCH PREY ON ITS LEFT SIDE
  35. 35.( The Bad Boy )
  36. 36.XXX. KING CHAMELEON AND THE ANIMALS
  37. 37.XXXI. TO LOSE AN ELEPHANT FOR THE SAKE OF A WREN IS A VERY FOOLISH THING TO DO
  38. 38.XXXII. THE UNGRATEFUL MAN
  39. 39.XXXIII. WHY TIGERS NEVER ATTACK MEN UNLESS THEY ARE PROVOKED
  40. 40.XXXIV. THE OMANHENE WHO LIKED RIDDLES
  41. 41.XXXV. HOW MUSHROOMS FIRST GREW
  42. 42.XXXVI. FARMER MYBROW AND THE FAIRIES
  43. 43.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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