Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus, in their own words, with a Translation into English, and Notes
Author | : Canon Callaway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Folk literature, Zulu |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Canon Callaway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Folk literature, Zulu |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Callaway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Children's stories, Zulu |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Callaway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Children's stories, Zulu |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Canon Callaway |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2022-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3375013760 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.
Author | : James A. Honey |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This collection of folktales from South Africa has been put together the author says, not for scholarship but for a love of the sunny country where he was born. Some stories originate from Dutch sources, and some have several versions. Most are tales told by the bushmen.
Author | : Folklore Society (Great Britain) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geo. Mc Call Theal |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465517359 |
Of late years a great deal of interest has been taken in the folklore of uncivilized tribes by those who have made it their business to study mankind. It has been found that a knowledge of the traditionary tales of a people is a key to their ideas and a standard of their powers of thought. These stories display their imaginative faculties; they are guides to the nature of the religious belief, of the form of government, of the marriage customs, in short, of much that relates to both the inner and the outer life of those by whom they are told. These tales also show the relationship between tribes and peoples of different countries and even of different languages. They are evidences that the same ideas are common to every branch of the human family at the same stage of progress. On this account, it is now generally recognised that in order to obtain correct information concerning an uncivilized race, a knowledge of their folklore is necessary. Without this a survey is no more complete than, for instance, a description of the English people would be if no notice of English literature were taken. It is with a view of letting the people we have chosen to call Kaffirs describe themselves in their own words, that these stories have been collected and printed. They form only a small portion of the folklore that is extant among them, but it is believed that they have been so selected as to leave no distinguishing feature unrepresented. Though these traditionary tales are very generally known, there are of course some persons who can relate them much better than others. The best narrators are almost invariably ancient dames, and the time chosen for story telling is always the evening. This is perhaps not so much on account of the evening being the most convenient time, as because such tales as these have most effect when told to an assemblage gathered round a fire circle, when night has spread her mantle over the earth, and when the belief in the supernatural is stronger than it is by day. Hence it may easily happen that persons may mix much with Kaffirs without even suspecting that they have in their possession a rich fund of legendary lore.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2020-07-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1839643102 |
Africa south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early written records, the continent possesses a rich body of folk tales and legends that have been passed down through the strong custom of storytelling and which often share similar elements, characters and ideas between peoples. So this collection offers a hefty selection of legends and tales – stories of the gods, creation and origins, trickster exploits, animal fables and stories which entertain and edify – from ‘Obatala Creates Mankind’, from the Yoruba people of west Africa, to ‘The Girl Of The Early Race, Who Made Stars’, from the San people of southern Africa, all collected in a gorgeous gold-foiled and embossed hardback to treasure.