MYTHS OF ORIGIN, DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE: The creation of the universe -- Obatala creates mankind -- The creation of man -- Huveane produces a child -- Olokun's revenge -- Agemo outwits Olokun -- The gods descend from the sky -- God abandons the earth -- The coming of darkness -- The sun and moon -- Why the sun and the moon live in the sky -- Why the moon waxes and wanes -- The prince who insisted on possessing the moon -- The girl of the early race, who made stars -- The story of the lightning and the thunder -- How death first entered the world -- Wanjiru, sacrificed by her family -- The chameleon (how death came into the world) -- How Ngunza defied death -- The man who would shoot Iruwa -- The thunder's bride -- The road to heaven -- The daughter of the sun and moon -- The tale of Murile -- Kwege and Bahati -- How a girl reached the land of the ghosts and came back -- Nunda the Slayer and the origin of the One-eyed -- Why dead people are buried -- The king and the ju ju tree -- How cannibals drove the people from Insofan -- Mountain to the Cross River (Ikom) -- ANIMAL STORIES & FABLES: How Anansi became a spider -- Anansi obtains the Sky-God's stories -- Anansi and the corn cob -- Tortoise and the wisdom of the world -- The tortoise and the baboon -- Tortoise and the hot-water test -- The tortoise and the elephant -- Elephant and tortoise -- Tortoises hunting ostriches -- The tortoise with a pretty daughter -- The leopard, the squirrel and the tortoise -- The leopard, the tortoise, and the bush rat -- The jackal and spring -- The name of the tree -- The tortoise and the monitor lizard -- How the tortoise overcame the elephant and the hippopotamus -- The elephant and the tortoise; or, Why worms are blind and why elephant has small eyes -- Why the worms live underneath the ground -- The king's magic drum -- How the leopard got his spots -- The donkey who sinned -- The two suns -- Gihilihili: the snake-man -- The story of the hunters and the big snake -- The sultan's snake-child -- Morongoe the snake -- How Ra-Molo became a snake -- The maid and her snake-lover -- The ape, the snake and the lion -- The physician's son and the king of the snakes -- The goat, the lion and the serpent -- The white man and snake -- How the dog came to live with man -- The story of Kitinda and her wise dog -- The legend of the leopardess and her two servants, dog and jackal -- The truth about cock's comb -- Chameleon wins a wife -- The chief and the tigers -- The tiger, the ram and the jackal -- The lion of Manda -- The trapper, the lion and the hare -- The hyaena [hyena] and the moonbeam -- The jackal, the hare and the cock -- The jackal and the wolf -- A jackal and a wolf -- The lion, the jackal and the man -- The lion and jackal -- The hunt of lion and jackal -- Jackal and monkey -- Jackal's bride -- The story of Hare -- Cloud eating -- Lion's illness -- Jackal, dove and heron -- Cock and jackal -- The lion, the hyena and the hare -- The hare and the lion -- The lion, the hyena and the rabbit -- How a hunter obtained money from his friend -- The leopard, goat, bush cat and cock, and how he got out of repaying them -- Why the bat flies by night -- Why the bat is ashamed to be seen in the daytime -- The woman, the ape and the child -- The fish and the leopard's wife; or, Why the fish lives in the water -- Why the flies bother the cows --Why the cat kills rats --Why the bush cow and the elephant are bad friends -- The affair of the hippopotamus and the tortoise; or, Why the Hippopotamus lives in the water -- Segu the honey guide -- Bata the duck -- Why a hawk kills chickens -- The king and the nsiat bird -- Concerning the hawk and the owl -- The nsasak bird and the odudu bird -- The election of the king bird -- The kites and the crows -- Tink-Kinkje -- The lost message -- The monkey's fiddle -- The world's reward -- The lioness and the ostrich -- Crocodile's treason -- The judgment of baboon -- Lion and baboon -- The zebra stallion -- When a lion could fly -- Lion who thought himself wiser than his mother -- Lion who took a woman's shape -- The man who found a lion in a cave -- The young man of the ancient race, who was carried off by a lion when asleep in the field -- Why has jackal a long black stripe on his back? -- Horse cursed by sun - Lion's defeat -- The elephant and the lion -- The monkey, the shark and the washerman's donkey -- The legend of the cunning terrapin and the crane -- The legend of Kibatti the little who conquered all the great animals -- The partnership of rabbit and elephant, and what came of it -- The boy Kinneneh and the gorilla -- A hospitable gorilla -- The city of elephants -- The animals and the well -- The hare, the hyena and the pot of beans -- The hare, the hyena and the roasted guinea fowl -- The hyena kills the hare's mother -- The hare overcomes both rhino and hippo -- The hare decides a case -- The hare's end -- The varanus in the tree -- The shrew-mouse helps the man -- The mantis assumes the form of a hartebeest -- Gaunu-tsaxau, the baboons and the mantis -- The mason wasp and his wife -- The vultures, their elder sister, and her husband --
STORIES OF WIT & WISDOM: The rich man and the poor man -- How Walukaga answered the king -- The young man and the skull -- The story of the glutton -- The feast -- The three tests -- The two rogues -- The girls who wanted new teeth -- The Kinyamkela's bananas -- The two brothers -- The tale of Nyengebule -- The story of Takane -- How Khosi chose a wife -- The village maiden and the cannibal -- Morena-Y-A-Letsatsi, or the Sun Chief -- Lelimo and the magic cap -- The famine -- Pemba Muhori -- The cat's tail -- The young thief -- The woodcutter and his donkey -- Kitangatanga of the sea -- The story of Kibaraka and the bird -- The story of the fools -- The poor man and his wife of wood -- Binti Ali the clever -- Lila and Fila -- Ali of the crooked arm -- Feeding the hungry -- Shani and Tabak -- A man and his mother-in-law -- The magic date trees -- Paka the cat -- The tale of the merchant and his bag of gold -- The Sultan's daughter -- The woman with two skins -- Ituen and the King's wife -- Of the pretty stranger who killed the king -- The disobedient daughter who married a skull -- The king who married the cock's daughter -- The cock who caused a fight between two towns -- Of the fat woman who melted away -- Of the pretty girl and the seven jealous women -- The lucky fisherman -- The orphan boy and the magic stone -- The slave girl who tried to kill her mistress -- The fate of Essido and his evil companions -- The story of the drummer and the alligators -- Goso, the teacher -- Haamdaanee -- Mkaaah Jeechonee, the boy hunter -- The magician and the sultan's son -- The queen of the pool -- King Gumbi and his lost daughter -- The story of Maranda -- How Kimyera became king of Uganda -- The adventures of Saruti -- The search for the home of the sun -- Out of the mouths of babes -- Ryangombe and Binego -- Sudika-Mbambi the Invincible -- Kachirambe of the Anyanja -- Mbega, a child of ill omen -- The 'Hadithi yar Liongo' -- Hlakanyana's precocious development and mischievous pranks -- The children and the Zimwi -- The magic flight -- The ogre huband -- The wee-wolf husband -- The girl who married a lion -- The hyena bridegroom -- Khodumodumo, or, Kammapa, the swallowing monster -- Untombinde and the squatting monster -- The devouring pumpkin.
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