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قراءة كتاب Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa

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Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa

Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa

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FOLK STORIES

FROM

SOUTHERN NIGERIA
WEST AFRICA

 

BY

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

Frontispiece from a Drawing in Colour by
Major G. M. de L. Dayrell

PAGE
Introduction vii
I.   The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter 1
II.   How a Hunter obtained Money from his Friends the Leopard, Goat, Bush Cat, and Cock, and how he got out of repaying them 6
III.   The Woman with two Skins 11
IV.   The King's Magic Drum 20
V.   Ituen and the King's Wife 29
VI.   Of the Pretty Stranger who Killed the King 33
VII.   Why the Bat flies by Night 36
VIII.   The Disobedient Daughter who Married a Skull 38
IX.   The King who Married the Cock's Daughter 42
X.   Concerning the Woman, the Ape, and the Child 46
XI.   The Fish and The Leopard's Wife; or, Why the Fish lives in the Water 49
XII.   Why the Bat is Ashamed to be seen in the Daytime 51
XIII.   Why the Worms live Underneath the Ground 56
XIV.   The Elephant and the Tortoise; or, Why the Worms are Blind and the Elephant has Small Eyes 58
XV.   Why a Hawk kills Chickens 62
XVI.   Why the Sun and the Moon live in the Sky 64

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