The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
208 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 2004
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ISBN: 9780375423123
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Pantheon
Publication date: 7 December 2004
Description
Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new tales from the Setswana-speaking people of Botswana.
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs... When a child made of wax follows his curiosity outside into the heat of daylight and melts, his siblings shape him into a bird with feathers made of leaves that enable him to fly into the light.... Talking hyenas, milk-giving birds, clever cannibals who nonetheless get their comeuppance, and mysterious forces that reside in the landscape -- these wonderful fables bring us the wealth, the variety, and the particular magic of traditional African lore.
Letter from Mma Ramotswe --
Guinea fowl child --
Bad way to treat friends --
Girl who lived in a cave --
Hare fools the baboons --
Pumpkin --
Sister of bones --
Milk bird --
Beware of friends you cannot trust --
Children of wax --
Brave hunter --
Stone Hare --
Tree to sing to --
Blind man catches a bird --
Hare fools Lion, again --
Strange animal --
Bad uncles --
Why Elephant and Hyena live far from people --
Wife who could not work --
Bad blood --
Sad story of Tortoise and Snail --
Old man who saved some ungrateful people --
Lazy baboons --
Great snake --
Girl who married a lion --
Two bad friends --
How a strange creature took the place of a girl, and then fell into a hole --
Greater than Lion --
Head tree --
Grandmother who was kind to a smelly girl --
Baboons who went this way and that --
Two friends who met for dinner --
Thathana moratho tree --
Tremendously clever tricks are played, but to limited effect
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs... When a child made of wax follows his curiosity outside into the heat of daylight and melts, his siblings shape him into a bird with feathers made of leaves that enable him to fly into the light.... Talking hyenas, milk-giving birds, clever cannibals who nonetheless get their comeuppance, and mysterious forces that reside in the landscape -- these wonderful fables bring us the wealth, the variety, and the particular magic of traditional African lore.
Letter from Mma Ramotswe --
Guinea fowl child --
Bad way to treat friends --
Girl who lived in a cave --
Hare fools the baboons --
Pumpkin --
Sister of bones --
Milk bird --
Beware of friends you cannot trust --
Children of wax --
Brave hunter --
Stone Hare --
Tree to sing to --
Blind man catches a bird --
Hare fools Lion, again --
Strange animal --
Bad uncles --
Why Elephant and Hyena live far from people --
Wife who could not work --
Bad blood --
Sad story of Tortoise and Snail --
Old man who saved some ungrateful people --
Lazy baboons --
Great snake --
Girl who married a lion --
Two bad friends --
How a strange creature took the place of a girl, and then fell into a hole --
Greater than Lion --
Head tree --
Grandmother who was kind to a smelly girl --
Baboons who went this way and that --
Two friends who met for dinner --
Thathana moratho tree --
Tremendously clever tricks are played, but to limited effect
