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Dayrell, Elphinstone

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9.x - 10.x

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

1910

published by Longmans, Green and

Col_2:1-23 -Contents

CONTENTS

Introduction

I. The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter

II. How a Hunter obtained Money from his Friends the Leopard, Goat, Bush Cat, and

Cock, and how he got out of repaying them

III. The Woman with two Skins.

IV. The King's Magic Drum

V. Ituen and the King's Wife

VI. Of the Pretty Stranger who Killed the King

VII. Why the Bat flies by Night

VIII. The Disobedient Daughter who Married a Skull

IX. The King who Married the Cock's Daughter

X. Concerning the Woman, the Ape, and the Child

XI. The Fish and The Leopard's Wife; or, Why the Fish lives in the Water

XII. Why the Bat is Ashamed to be seen in the Daytime

XIII. Why the Worms live Underneath the Ground

XIV. The Elephant and the Tortoise; or, Why the Worms are Blind and the Elephant

XV. Why a Hawk kills Chickens

XVI. Why the Sun and the Moon live in the Sky

XVII. Why the Flies Bother the Cows

XVIII. Why the Cat kills Rats

XIX. The Story of the Lightning and the Thunder

XX. Why the Bush Cow and the Elephant are bad Friends

XXI. The Cock who caused a Fight between two Towns

XXII. The Affair of the Hippopotamus and the Tortoise; or, Why the Hippopotamus lives in the Water

XXIII. Why Dead People are Buried

XXIV. Of the Fat Woman who Melted Away

XXV. Concerning the Leopard, the Squirrel, and the Tortoise

XXVI. Why the Moon Waxes and Wanes

XXVII. The Story of the Leopard, the Tortoise and the Bush Rat

XXVIII. The King and the Ju Ju Tree

XXIX. How the Tortoise overcame the Elephant and the Hippopotamus

XXX. Of the Pretty Girl and the Seven jealous Women

XXXI. How the Cannibals drove the People from Insofan Mountain to the Cross River (Ikom)

XXXII. The Lucky Fisherman

XXXIII. The Orphan Boy and the Magic Stone

XXXIV. The Slave Girl who tried to Kill her Mistress

XXXV. The King and the 'Nsiat Bird

XXXVI. Concerning the Fate of Essido and his Evil Companions

XXXVII Concerning the Hawk and the Owl

XXXVIII. The Story of the Drummer and the Alligators

XXXIX. The 'Nsasak Bird and the Odudu Bird

XL. The Election of the King Bird (the black-and-white Fishing Eagle)

　

　