Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales

Nassau, Robert Hamill
158 pages · Folk-Lore & Mythology · free to read
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Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) WHERE ANIMALS TALK West African Folk Lore Tales By ROBERT H. NASSAU Author of "Fetichism in West Africa," "The Youngest King," etc. RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS BOSTON PREFACE The typical native African Ekano or legend is marked by repetition. The same incidents occur to a succession of individuals; monotony being prevented by a variation in the conduct of those individuals, as they reveal their weakness or stupidity, artifice or treachery. Narrators, while preserving the original plot and characters of a Tale, vary it…

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