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. African folklore, myths and legends illustrated by the students of Edgbarrow College. Suitable for ages 7 to 101 or to be read to younger audiences. Perfect Bound Paperback. 33% of the net profit is donated to the SOS Childrens village in Asiakwa, Ghana. Printed from Sustainable forests with Chain of Custody certification.. Yoruba Legends This book was especially republished to raise funds for these charities & many more...33% of the publisher's profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.AGREAT READ FOR KIDS!The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united by Geography, History, Religion and most importantly their Language. Many years ago, before the advent of the West African slave trade, the Yoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, all the way inward and down to Angola in South West Africa. Today this is not the case.The legends and fairy stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of Nature—Why Women have Long Hair, How the Leopard got his Spots, the Three Magicians, the Boa-Constrictor, How the Elephant got his Trunk and more. These stories grew from the imagination of the people. We read these folk-tales for their quaintness and humour, for their sympathy with Nature, and because we find in them the ideas and ideals, not just of one man, but of a race of people. IN modern times we have begun paying close attention to folklore - old tales, not invented by one man, but belonging to the whole people; not written down, but told by parents to their children, and so handed on for hundreds of years. The legends express primitive notions of right and wrong. As a rule, the wicked are punished and the good rewarded; and that, we feel, is as it should be. We may weep at the death of rascally Tortoise, but we may also feel that he somehow has deserved his fate! Illustrated by the students of Edbarrow School to raise funds for the SOS Children's village in Ghana. ABELA PUBLISHING - YESTERDAYS BOOKS raising funds for TODAYS CHARITIES Excerpt from Yoruba LegendsWHY WOMEN HAVE LONG HAIROnce Upon a Time two women quarrelled, and one of them went out secretly at night and dug a deep pit in the middle of the path leading from her enemy's house to the village well. Early next morning, when all were going to the well for water with jars balanced on their heads, this woman fell into the pit and cried loudly for help. Her friends ran to her and, seizing her by the hair, began to pull her out of the pit. To their surprise, her hair stretched as they pulled, and by the time she was safely on the path, her hair was as long as a man's arm. This made her very much ashamed, and she ran away and hid herself. But after a while she realized that her long hair was beautiful, and then she felt very proud and scorned all the short-haired women, jeering at them. When they saw this, they were consumed with jealousy, and began to be ashamed of their short hair. “We have men's hair,” they said to one another. “How beautiful it would be to have long hair!” So one by one they jumped into the pit, and their friends pulled them out by the hair.And in this way they, and all women after them, had long hair. Table of Contents for Yoruba LegendsI THE KINGDOM OF THE YORUBASII HOW TRIBAL MARKS CAME TO BE USEDIII AKITI THE HUNTERIV SONS OF STICKSV WHY WOMEN HAVE LONG HAIRVI WHY PEOPLE CRY “LONG LIVE THE KING!” WHEN THUNDER FOLLOWS LIGHTNINGVII THE OLOFIN AND THE MICEVIII THE IROKO TREEIX ORISA OKOX MOREMIXI THE BATXII THE LEOPARD-MANXIII THE WATER-BIRDXIV THE ANTS AND THE TREASUREXV THE VOICES OF BIRDSXVI THE THREE MAGICIANSXVII ISOKUN AND THE BABYXVIII THE TWIN BROTHERS XIX HOW LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTSXX ANOTHER STORY OF LEOPARD'S SPOTSXXI THE HEADXXII OLE AND THE ANTSXXIII THE BOA-CONSTRICTORXXIV OLURONBIXXV THE STAFF OF ORANYANXXVI THE ELEPHANT'S TRUNKXXVII THE SECRET OF THE FISHING-BASKETS…..XXVIII THE TEN GOLDSMITHSXXIX THE COOKING-POTXXX THE PARROTXXXI THE GHOST-CATCHER.STORIES OF TORTOISEXXXII TORTOISE AND THE KINGXXXIII TORTOISE AND MR. FLYXXXIV ERIN AND ERINOMI (THE LAND- AND WATER-ELEPHANTS) XXXV THE THREE DEATHS OF TORTOISEXXXVI TORTOISE AND THE COCKXXXVII TORTOISE AND CRABXXXVIII TORTOISE AND PIGEONXXXIX TORTOISE AND THE WHIP-TREEXL TORTOISE AND THE RAIN