
Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales
by Henry W. Ward Florence M. Cronise
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About This Book
Fiction, Tales, Children, folk-lore, fables, Fairy, AfricaPREFACEThis little volume is sent forth with many misgivings. It claims neither literary excellence nor an entrancing theme, but professes fidelity to truth, and a desire to call attention to certain quaint and interesting phases of the inner life of a much misunderstood race.In the compilation of these folk-lore tales, the one aim has been to make them accessible to English readers, and at the same time to retain as much as possible of their native grace and quaintness.To accomplish this aim, the stories have been told in the dialect u...
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- CUNNIE RABBIT, MR. SPIDER AND THE OTHER BEEF
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CUNNIE RABBIT
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I
- WHEN THE NIGHT HAS COME
- MR. SPIDER WINS A WIFE
- CHAPTER II
- WITH THE SPIRITS OF THE WOOD
- GORO, THE WONDERFUL WRESTLER.
- MR. SPIDER SOLD A VERY FINE DOG.
- MR. TURTLE MAKES A RIDING-HORSE OF MR. LEOPARD.
- CHAPTER III
- A BACK-YARD KITCHEN
- CUNNING RABBIT AND HIS WELL.
- GOATS OF THE WOOD AND OF THE TOWN.
- CHAPTER IV
- EVENING ON THE WATER
- SPIDER DISCOVERS THE WAX GIRL.
- MR. CHAMELEON IS TRANSFORMED INTO A BOAT.
- SPIDER, ELEPHAN' EN PAWPAWTÁMUS.
- CHAPTER V
- A PURRO INITIATION
- CUNNING RABBIT BECOMES A KING.
- MR. SPIDER INITIATES THE FOWLS.
- CHAPTER VI
- THE BURNING OF THE FARM
- SPIDER TRIES TO "BRUSH" THE DEVIL'S FARM.
- THE DEVIL TURNS PIGEON
- CHAPTER VII
- MAMMY MAMENAH AND HER FRIENDS
- A STONE THAT WORE A BEARD.
- THE GIRL THAT PLAITED THE DEVIL'S BEARD.
- MARRY THE DEVIL, THERE'S THE DEVIL TO PAY.
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHILDREN OF NATURE
- THE THREE TWINS.
- WHICH TWIN RESTORED HIS FATHER TO LIFE?
- WHICH ONE WAS MOST GREEDY?
- MR. SPIDER CREATES A FRIGHTFUL TORNADO.
- MR. LEOPARD SHOWS HIS HAND.
- MR. LEOPARD FOOLS THE OTHER ANIMALS.
- A CASE OF "TIT FOR TAT."
- DR. SPIDER'S FATAL PRESCRIPTIONS.
- MR. SPIDER "PULLS" A SUPPLY OF BEEF.
- CHAPTER IX
- AN AFTERNOON IN THE BARREH[56]
- THE DANCING BIRD.
- THE WICKED IS TAKEN IN HIS OWN SNARE.
- AN OLD MAN TURNS ELEPHANT.
- THE MAN WHO COULD NOT KEEP SECRETS.
- CHAPTER X
- KONAH TURNS STORY-TELLER
- THE DEVIL'S MAGIC EGGS.
- TOOTHACHE ENTAILED.
- WHY MR. SPIDER'S WAIST IS SMALL.
- CHAPTER XI
- WHILE THE BIRDS DID NOT COME
- MR. SPIDER SECURES A POWERFUL WITCH MEDICINE.
- MR. SPIDER GETS INTO TROUBLE AGAIN.
- A GHOST STORY.
- CHAPTER XII
- A HARVEST HOME IN TEMNE-LAND
- WATCH-POT AND GREEDY.
- THE ORIGIN OF THE AXE.
- CHAPTER XIII
- KONAH HAS A WONDERFUL DAY
- THE NEW VERSION OF EVE AND THE APPLE.
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