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- Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 453 In this 453rd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Eastern Fairy Tale of “The White Snake.” A long, long time ago and far, far away, lived a king who had a secret, but no one knew what the secret was. One servant, curious about the secret plotted to find out what it was. One day the Queen last her wedding ring and using his new-found knowledge recovered it for her. The king decided to reward the young man and asked him what he wanted. The young man replied a horse and some money as he wished to travel the world. But then what happened you may ask? Was the servant’s wish granted? How far did he travel and was he kind to the people he met along the way. How did everything turn out in the end? Well, you’ll have to download and read this story to find out for yourself. INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA 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 450+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES at https://goo.gl/LXNM 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, myths, happiness, laughter, The White snake, King, Queen, Princess, servant, , Ant-King, Apple, beautiful, chatter, conquer, creatures, Daughter, dish, feathers, fish, fishes, forfeit, garden, gold, Golden, good, good-for-nothing, great, heard, heart, hop, horse, horseback, innocent, King, kingdom, lament, Life, listen, millet-seed, overcome, Princess, Prince. Queen, ravens, ring, rustle, sacks, sea, Snake, sparrows, succeed, swim, three, tomorrow, travel, whisper, window, woods, young, youth, journey, secret, hear
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The White Snake
A Dutch Fairy Tale
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
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Abela Publishing, London
2018
THE WHITE SNAKE
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Abela Publishing,
London, United Kingdom
2018
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
ISSN 2397-9607
Issue 453
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Website: Baba Indaba 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 village of Zoutelande. Can you find Zoutelande on a map? What country is it in?
HINT: use Google Maps - https://www.google.com/maps
The White Snake
A Dutch Fairy Tale
Umntwana Izwa! Children Listen!
A story, a story
Let it come, let it go
A story, a story
From long, long ago!
Umntwana, children, these are stories from a long, long time ago and far, far away, from an expanse of land with sea on one side and land on the others. In ancient times it was ruled by the Holy Roman Empire, the Carolingians and the Kingdom of Spain before it established its own monarchy which has lasted until this day. It is bordered to the West by the Oceanus Gallicus and on the North by the Morimaru. To the East it is bordered by ancient Ashkenaz and to the South by a land the Romans called Gallia Belgica. The Lek, the Waal and the Meuse Rivers flow through this country.
In ancient times it was a part of Lower Lotharingia. Today we know this land as the Netherlands, or Holland.
Our story goes thus………
ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago and far, far away, there lived a King who was famed for his wisdom through all the land. Nothing was hidden from him, and it seemed as if news of the most secret things was brought to him through the air.
But he had a strange custom. Every day after dinner, when the table was cleared, and no one else was present, a trusty servant had to bring him one more dish. It was covered and even the servant did not know what was in it. Neither did anyone know, for the King never took off the cover to eat of it, until he was quite alone.
