Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa
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Chapters (269)
- FOLK STORIES
- FROM
- SOUTHERN NIGERIA WEST AFRICA
- ELPHINSTONE DAYRELL, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I.
- DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, SOUTHERN NIGERIA
- WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
- ANDREW LANG
- WITH FRONTISPIECE
- LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
- 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
- 1910
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- FOOTNOTES
- FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA
- I
- The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter
- FOOTNOTES
- II
- How a Hunter obtained Money from his Friends the Leopard, Goat, Bush Cat, and Cock, and how he got out of repaying them
- III
- The Woman with Two Skins
- IV
- The King's Magic Drum
- V
- Ituen and the King's Wife
- VI
- Of the Pretty Stranger who Killed the King
- VII
- Why the Bat flies by Night
- VIII
- The Disobedient Daughter who Married a Skull
- IX
- The King who Married the Cock's Daughter
- FOOTNOTES
- X
- The Woman, the Ape, and the Child
- XI
- The Fish and the Leopard's Wife; or, Why the Fish lives in the Water
- XII
- Why the Bat is Ashamed to be seen in the Daytime
- XIII
- Why the Worms live Underneath the Ground
- XIV
- The Elephant and the Tortoise; or, Why the Worms are Blind and Why the Elephant has Small Eyes
- XV
- Why a Hawk kills Chickens
- XVI
- Why the Sun and the Moon live in the Sky
- XVII
- Why the Flies Bother the Cows
- XVIII
- Why the Cat kills Rats
- XIX
- The Story of the Lightning and the Thunder
- XX
- Why the Bush Cow and the Elephant are bad Friends
- XXI
- The Cock who caused a Fight between two Towns
- XXII
- The Affair of the Hippopotamus and the Tortoise; or, Why the Hippopotamus lives in the Water
- XXIII
- Why Dead People are Buried
- XXIV
- Of the Fat Woman who Melted Away
- XXV
- Concerning the Leopard, the Squirrel, and the Tortoise
- XXVI
- Why the Moon Waxes and Wanes
- XXVII
- The Story of the Leopard, the Tortoise, and the Bush Rat
- XXVIII
- The King and the Ju Ju Tree
- FOOTNOTES
- XXIX
- How the Tortoise overcame the Elephant and the Hippopotamus
- XXX
- Of the Pretty Girl and the Seven Jealous Women
- XXXI
- How the Cannibals drove the People from Insofan Mountain to the Cross River (Ikom)
- XXXII
- The Lucky Fisherman
- FOOTNOTES
- XXXIII
- The Orphan Boy and the Magic Stone
- FOOTNOTES
- XXXIV
- The Slave Girl who tried to Kill her Mistress
- XXXV
- The King and the 'Nsiat Bird
- XXXVI
- Concerning the Fate of Essido and his Evil Companions
- FOOTNOTES
- XXXVII
- Concerning the Hawk and the Owl
- XXXVIII
- The Story of the Drummer and the Alligators
- XXXIX
- The 'Nsasak Bird and the Odudu Bird
- XL
- The Election of the King Bird (the black-and-white Fishing Eagle)
- FOOTNOTES
- THE END
- LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
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