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- Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 426 In this 426th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the European fairy tale of "THE THREE SOLDIERS”. A long, long time ago, a sergeant, a corporal and a private are returning home from war. One night they have made camp in a forest and have a roaring fire burning and the sergeant was on sentry duty. An old hag approaches and asks if she can warm herself by the fire. The sergeant readily agrees. In return the old hag gives him an empty purse. When he looks inside there is nothing. The sergeant thinks that this is the old hag’s one and only possession and offers to return it. The old woman is impressed with the sergeant’s empathy but says he must keep it. She also says to empty the contents of the purse into his hand. He is suspicious, but agrees to do so. When he does a number of gold coins fall into his hand. Needless to say he is astonished! What happened next you ask, and where does a castle and a beautiful princess fit into this story? Well, as you would expect in these circumstances, many things happened. To find the answers to this question, and any others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out! INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". BUY ANY of the BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES at https://goo.gl/65LXNM 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children’s stories, Childrens, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, Europe, imperial court, three soldiers, forest, old woman, old hag, roaring fire, request, granted, princess, sergeant, tablecloth, purse, magic, majic, corporal, horns, private, whistle, marry, palace, castle, white, black, upside down, comrades, wander, dinner, night, marm, gold, coins, disappear, sentry, appear, cover, brought, cheat, vittles, stream, mirror, mother, cards, trees, city, prosper, travel, beautiful, delicious, promise, borrow, drop, pour, march, throne, King, Queen, shiver, bones, love, game
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The Three Soldiers
A European Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
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Abela Publishing, London
2018
THE THREE SOLDIERS
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2018
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
ISSN 2397-9607
Issue 426
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Baba Indaba’s Children’s Stories
An Introduction to Baba Indaba
Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.
In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.
In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have to recite the story back to the Wenxoxi Indaba, word for word. In this manner he learned the stories of the Zulu nation.
In time the Wenxoxi Indaba grew old and when he could no longer see or hear, Baba Indaba became the next in a long line of Wenxoxi Indabas. So fond were the children of him that they continued to call him Baba Indaba – the Father of Stories.
When the British arrived in South Africa, he made it his job to also learn their stories. He did this by going to work at the docks at the Point in Port Natal at a place the Zulu people call Ethekwene (Eh-tek-weh-nee). Here he spoke to many sailors and ships captains. Captains of ships that sailed to the far reaches of the British Empire – Canada, Australia, India, Mauritius, the Caribbean and beyond.
He became so well known that ship’s crew would bring him a story every time they visited Port Natal. If they couldn’t, they would arrange to have someone bring it to him. This way his library of stories grew and grew until he was known far and wide as the keeper of stories – a true Wenxoxi Indaba of the world.
Baba Indaba believes the tale he is about to tell in this little book, and all the others he has learned, are the common property of Umntwana (Children) of every nation in the world - and so they are and have been ever since men and women began telling stories, thousands and thousands of years ago.
Location of KwaZulu-Natal (shaded in red)
Where in the World? Look it Up!
This next story was told to him by a traveller who hailed from the town of Gradiska. Can you find Gradiska on a map? What country is it in?
The Three Soldiers
A European Fairy Tale
A story, a story
Let it come, let it go
A story, a story
From long, long ago!
Umntwana Izwa! Children Listen!
Umntwana, these are stories from a long, long time ago and far, far away, from an expanse of land which is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It stretches from the Pillars of Hercules in the West, to the Don River in the East. Today we call this land Europe. Our story goes thus………
ONCE UPON A TIME a long, long time ago and far, far away, three soldiers returned from the wars; one was a sergeant, one was a corporal, and the third was a simple private. One night they were caught in a forest and made a fire up to sleep by; and the sergeant had to do sentry-go. While he was walking up and down an old woman, bent double, came up to him and said:
"Please, sir, may I warm myself by your fire?"
"Why, certainly, mother, you are welcome to all the warmth you can get."
So the old woman sat by the fire for a time, and when she had got thoroughly warmed she said to the sergeant:
"Thank you, soldier; here is something for your trouble." And she handed him a purse, which seemed to have nothing in it.
"Oh, thank you, marm," said the sergeant, "but I wouldn't deprive you of it, especially as there is nothing in it."
"That may be so now," said the old woman, "but take it in your hand and turn it upside-down and, while you hold it like that gold pieces will come pouring out of it."
He took it, and, sure enough, whenever he held it up out came the gold pieces. So he thanked her very much, and off she went.
Next night the corporal had to play sentry, and the old woman came up to him and asked to sit by the side of the fire.
