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  2. The Child with a Moon on his Chest (Sotho) - Wikipedia

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    Africanist Sigrid Schmidt asserted that the tale type was particularly widespread in Southeast Africa. [9] In fact, according to her studies, the tale type 707, as well as types 706, Maiden Without Hands, and 510, Cinderella, "found a home in Southern Africa for many generations". [10] Schmidt provided the summary of two manuscript tales.

  3. Dog, and His Human Speech - Wikipedia

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    Dog, and His Human Speech is a Central African folktale collected by missionary Robert Hamill Nassau, from the Tanga people.According to scholars, the tale is related to the folkloric theme of the Calumniated Wife, and finds parallels with European variants of tale type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index.

  4. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears - Wikipedia

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    Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale is a 1975 children's picture book by Verna Aardema and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Published in hardcover by Dial Books for Young Readers it is told in the form of a cumulative tale written for young children , which tells an African legend.

  5. Category:African folklore - Wikipedia

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    South African folklore (4 C, 6 P) Superstitions of Africa (2 C, 8 P) U. UFO sightings in Africa (1 C, 4 P) V. Vazimba (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "African folklore"

  6. Afrikaans folklore - Wikipedia

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    Some of the best examples of Afrikaans folklore are stories recorded and written by Minnie Postma, [15] who grew up with and heard these tales told by Sotho people. Using these stories can give effect to a recommendation made by Robinson, [16] namely that the integration of culture in a language programme should be a synthesis between the learner's home culture, the target language's cultural ...

  7. Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky - Wikipedia

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    Why The Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky is a children's picture book written by Elphinstone Dayrell and illustrated by Blair Lent retelling an African folk tale about the origin of the world and its natural elements. [1] The book was published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1968. In 1969 it received the Caldecott Honor for Lent's illustrations.

  8. West African mythology - Wikipedia

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    West African mythology is the body of myths of the people of West Africa. It consists of tales of various deities, beings, legendary creatures , heroes and folktales from various ethnic groups. Some of these myths traveled across the Atlantic during the period of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to become part of Caribbean , African-American and ...

  9. The Black Cloth - Wikipedia

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    The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales. pp. xiii–xxxvi. ISBN 9780870235573. Irving, Evelyn Uhrhan (1987). "Reviewed Work(s): The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales by Bernard Binlin Dadié and Karen C. Hatch; The City Where No One Dies by Bernard Binlin Dadié and Jains A. Mayes". World Literature Today. 61 (3): 481.