The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories

Amos Tutuola

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571311330
• Year: 2014

Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola's writing and the stories collected here are no exception. They feature characters from folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society, supernatural or magical happenings, acute human observation and often a moral point. Their very titles - from 'The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister' to 'Don't Pay Bad for Bad' - are evocative of a unique blend of tradition and imagination, which belongs to the same universal culture as Aesop and the Brothers Grimm.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• The Village Witch Doctor
• A Short Biography of Tortoise
• A Short Biography of Yanribo, Tortoise’s Wife
• Ajao and the Active Bone
• Don’t Pay Bad for Bad
• Akanke and the Jealous Pawnbroker
• Remember the Day After Tomorrow
• Ade, the Traitor
• Rere, the Disobedient Son
• The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister
• The Rich Husbandman and his Odd-looking Pawn
• The Greedy Tortoise and the Orisa-Oko
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright