Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa Papyras Classics

Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa

by Elphinstone Dayrell

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Contents

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

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