SOUTH AFRICAN FOLK-TALES - 44 African Stories for Children E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

In this volume you will find forty-four uniquely South African tales. Stories of The Lost Message, The Monkey's Fiddle, The Leopard, The Ram and the Jackal, The Lion the Jackal and the Man, Tink-Tinkje, The Lioness and the Ostrich, Crocodile's Treason, The White Man and Snake, Tortoise Hunting Ostriches, The Judgment Of Baboon, When Lion Could Fly, The Origin Of Death and many more. It is with great thanks to James A. Honey that this volume was ever compiled. For there are few volumes currently available with these old and forgotten tales from across South Africa. In the days before the many languages of South Africa were first recorded and written, these are stories that were used by the Sangomas (medicine women) and the Umxoxi Wendaba (story tellers) to teach their children the moral lessons of life and orally pass their knowledge on to the next generation. So gather around the campfire and share the many stories in this book to the delight of young and old alike. Then when the hour grows late, when sparks from the fire have stopped ascending into the black night and young heads and eyelids have grown heavy; when the dying fire is making long shadows dance across the veld, close the book with the promise that another African story will be told on another day.

Leseprobe

SOUTH AFRICAN

FOLK TALES

BY

JAMES A. HONEŸ, M.D.

1910

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Originally published

1910

Resurrected by

Abela Publishing

London

2009

South African Folk Tales

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2009

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9560584-5-4

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to the teachers and storytellers

who keep folklore and history alive

through the telling and re-telling

of these tales

Philanthropy

33% percentage of the net

from the sale of this book

will be donated towards the education

of those South African children

most in need

Acknowledgements

The Publisher acknowledges the

work that James A. Honey did

in compiling this volume of

unique South African Folk Tales

in a time well before any

electronic media was in use

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ORIGIN OF THE DIFFERENCE IN MODES OF LIFE BETWEEN

HOTTENTOTS AND BUSHMEN

THE LOST MESSAGE

THE MONKEY'S FIDDLE

THE LEOPARD, THE RAM, AND THE JACKAL

THE JACKAL AND THE HYENA

A JACKAL AND A HYENA

THE LION, THE JACKAL, AND THE MAN

THE WORLD'S REWARD

THE LION AND THE JACKAL

TINK-TINKJE

THE LION AND JACKAL

LION AND JACKAL

THE HUNT OF LION AND JACKAL

THE STORY OF LION AND LITTLE JACKAL

THE LIONESS AND THE OSTRICH

CROCODILE'S TREASON

THE STORY OF A DAM

THE DANCE FOR WATER OR RABBITS' TRIUMPH

JACKAL AND MONKEY

LION'S SHARE

JACKAL'S BRIDE

THE STORY OF HARE

THE WHITE MAN AND SNAKE

ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME FABLE

CLOUD BATING

LION'S ILLNESS

JACKAL, DOVE, AND HERON

COCK AND JACKAL

ELEPHANT AND TORTOISE

ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME FABLE

TORTOISE HUNTING OSTRICHES

THE JUDGMENT OF BABOON

LION AND BABOON

THE ZEBRA STALLION

WHEN LION COULD FLY

LION WHO THOUGHT HIMSELF WISER THAN HIS MOTHER

LION WHO TOOK A WOMAN'S SHAPE

WHY HAS JACKAL A LONG BLACK STRIPE ON HIS BACK?

HORSE CURSED BY SUN

LION'S DEFEAT

THE ORIGIN OF DEATH

ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME FABLE

A THIRD VERSION OF THE SAME FABLE

A FOURTH VERSION OF THE SAME FABLE

A ZULU VERSION OF THE LEGEND OF THE

"ORIGIN OFDEATH"

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SOUTH-AFRICAN FOLK-TALES

INTRODUCTION

IN presenting these stories, which are of deep interest and value to South Africans, I hope they may prove of some value to those Americans, and people from other countries, who have either an interest in animals or who appreciate the folklore of other countries.

Many of these tales have appeared among English collections previous to 1880, others have been translated from the Dutch, and a few have been written from childhood remembrance. Consequently they do not pretend to be original or unique. Care has been taken not to spoil the ethnological value for the sake of form or structure; and in all cases they are as nearly like the original as a translation from one tongue to another will allow. They are all South-African folklore tales and mainly from the Bushmen. Some are perverted types from what were originally Bushmen tales, but have been taken over by Hottentots or Zulus; a few are from the Dutch. Most