South-African Folk-Tales

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• Publisher: Sovereign
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781787365667
• Edition: 0

South-African Folk-Tales provides an invaluable contribution to the literature on cultural anthropology, providing a rich and varied exploration of traditional folk stories from the region. Through an analysis of narrative structures, motifs, characters, as well as relevant social and cultural context, Honey offers an in-depth look at the diverse myths and legends of South Africa.

Table of contents

• INTRODUCTION
• ORIGIN OF THE DIFFERENCE IN MODES OF LIFE BETWEEN HOTTENTOTS AND BUSHMEN
• THE LOST MESSAGE
• THE MONKEY’S FIDDLE
• THE TIGER, THE RAM, AND THE JACKAL
• THE JACKAL AND THE WOLF
• A JACKAL AND A WOLF
• THE LION, THE JACKAL, AND THE MAN
• THE WORLD’S REWARD
• THE LION AND JACKAL
• TINK-TINKJE
• THE LION AND JACKAL
• LION AND JACKAL
• THE HUNT OF LION AND JACKAL
• STORY OF LION AND LITTLE JACKAL
• THE LIONESS AND THE OSTRICH
• CROCODILE’S TREASON
• THE STORY OF A DAM
• THE DANCE FOR WATER OR RABBIT’S 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-EATING
• LION’S ILLNESS
• JACKAL, DOVE, AND HERON
• COCK AND JACKAL
• ELEPHANT AND TORTOISE
• ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME FABLE
• TORTOISES 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 OF DEATH”