Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
PAGE 1. The Lion’s Defeat 1 2. The Hunt of the Lion and Jackal 3 3. The Lion’s Share 5 4. The Jackal’s Bride 9 5. The White Man and the Snake 11 6. Another Version of the same Fable 13 7. Cloud-Eating 14 8. Fish-Stealing 16 9. Which was the Thief? 18 10. The Lion’s Illness 19...
PAGE 1. The Lion’s Defeat 1 2. The Hunt of the Lion and Jackal 3 3. The Lion’s Share 5 4. The Jackal’s Bride 9 5. The White Man and the Snake 11 6. Another Version of the same F...
2. Part 2The Lion and the Jackal, it is said, were one day lying in wait for elands. The Lion shot (with the bow) and missed, but the Jackal hit and sang out, “Hah! Hah!” The Lion said,...
3. Part 3When the Giraffe was dead, the Tortoise crawled out and went to the Crab (who is considered as the mother of the Tortoise), and told her what had happened. Then the Crab said—
4. Part 4A Bushman was, on one occasion, following a troop of zebras, and had just succeeded in wounding one with his arrows, when a Lion sprang out from a thicket opposite, and showed e...
5. Part 5There was a little girl who had an eïngi (pronounced a-inghi, some kind of fruit). She said to her Mother, “Mother, why is it that you do not say, ‘My first-born, give me the eï...