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Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146551709X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1969 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MANY years ago a book on the Folk-Tales of the Eskimo was published, and the editor of The Academy (Dr. Appleton) told one of his minions to send it to me for revision. By mischance it was sent to an eminent expert in Political Economy, who, never suspecting any error, took the book for the text of an interesting essay on the economics of "the blameless Hyperboreans." Mr. Dayrell's "Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria" appeal to the anthropologist within me, no less than to the lover of what children and older people call "Fairy Tales." The stories are full of mentions of strange institutions, as well as of rare adventures. I may be permitted to offer some running notes and comments on this mass of African curiosities from the crowded lumber-room of the native mind. I. The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter.--The story, like the tales of the dark native tribes of Australia, rises from that state of fancy by which man draws (at least for purposes of fiction) no line between himself and the lower animals. Why should not the fair heroine, Adet, daughter of the tortoise, be the daughter of human parents? The tale would be none the less interesting, and a good deal more credible to the mature intelligence. But the ancient fashion of animal parentage is presented. It may have originated, like the stories of the Australians, at a time when men were totemists, when every person had a bestial or vegetable "family-name," and when, to account for these hereditary names, stories of descent from a supernatural, bestial, primeval race were invented. In the fables of the world, speaking animals, human in all but outward aspect, are the characters. The fashion is universal among savages; it descends to the Buddha's jataka, or parables, to sop and La Fontaine. There could be no such fashion if fables had originated among civilised human beings. The polity of the people who tell this story seems to be despotic. The king makes a law that any girl prettier than the prince's fifty wives shall be put to death, with her parents. Who is to be the Paris, and give the fatal apple to the most fair? Obviously the prince is the Paris. He falls in love with Miss Tortoise, guided to her as he is by the bird who is "entranced with her beauty." In this tribe, as in Homer's time, the lover offers a bride-price to the father of the girl. In Homer cattle are the current medium; in Nigeria pieces of cloth and brass rods are (or were) the currency. Observe the queen's interest in an affair of true love. Though she knows that her son's life is endangered by his honourable passion, she adds to the bride-price out of her privy purse. It is "a long courting"; four years pass, while pretty Adet is "ower young to marry yet." The king is very angry when the news of this breach of the royal marriage Act first comes to his ears. He summons the whole of his subjects, his throne, a stone, is set out in the market-place, and Adet is brought before him. He sees and is conquered.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Double 9 Books
ISBN 13 : 9789361424007
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa" is a Folk tales written by Elphinstone Dayrell. Elphinstone Dayrell, a British colonial administrator, collected and preserved conventional folks tales from Southern Nigeria. "Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa" is a complicated web of oral traditions that captures the spirit of Nigerian tradition. The paintings of literature contain a huge range of folks stories, myths, and legends handed down over ages in Nigeria.Dayrell's paintings are an exquisite useful resource for gaining knowledge of approximately Southern Nigeria's oral literature and cultural records.These human beings's recollections mirror the attitudes, behaviors, and values of numerous Nigerian groups. The testimonies have appealing characters consisting of foxy animals, supernatural beings, and courageous men. Morality, bravery, consciousness, and deception are key topics in these tales, which educate listeners and readers vital instructions. Dayrell efficaciously portrays Southern Nigeria's numerous landscapes and traditions. The work of literature preserves actual folklore, so assisting to preserve Nigeria's cultural historical history for future generations. Each narrative offers insight into the Nigerian humans's ideas and creativity, as well as their many cultural affects.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780243631001
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria, West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : ELPHINSTONE DAYRELL, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329807146
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (298 download)
Download or read book FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA WEST AFRICA written by ELPHINSTONE DAYRELL, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria" appeal to the anthropologist within me, no less than to the lover of what children and older people call "Fairy Tales." The stories are full of mentions of strange institutions, as well as of rare adventures. I may be permitted to offer some running notes and comments on this mass of African curiosities from the crowded lumber-room of the native mind.
Author : Elphinstone Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522928577
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (285 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa written by Elphinstone Elphinstone Dayrell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MANY years ago a book on the Folk-Tales of the Eskimo was published, and the editor of The Academy (Dr. Appleton) told one of his minions to send it to me for revision. By mischance it was sent to an eminent expert in Political Economy, who, never suspecting any error, took the book for the text of an interesting essay on the economics of "the blameless Hyperboreans."Mr. Dayrell's "Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria" appeal to the anthropologist within me, no less than to the lover of what children and older people call "Fairy Tales." The stories are full of mentions of strange institutions, as well as of rare adventures. I may be permitted to offer some running notes and comments on this mass of African curiosities from the crowded lumber-room of the native mind.I. The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter.--The story, like the tales of the dark native tribes of Australia, rises from that state of fancy by which man draws (at least for purposes of fiction) no line between himself and the lower animals. Why should not the fair heroine, Adet, daughter of the tortoise, be the daughter of human parents? The tale would be none the less interesting, and a good deal more credible to the mature intelligence. But the ancient fashion of animal parentage is presented. It may have originated, like the stories of the Australians, at a time when men were totemists, when every person had a bestial or vegetable "family-name," and when, to account for these hereditary names, stories of descent from a supernatural, bestial, primeval race were invented. In the fables of the world, speaking animals, human in all but outward aspect, are the characters. The fashion is universal among savages; it descends to the Buddha's jataka, or parables, to Æsop and La Fontaine. There could be no such fashion if fables had originated among civilised human beings.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was once a king who was very powerful. He had great influence over the wild beasts and animals. Now the tortoise was looked upon as the wisest of all beasts and men. This king had a son named Ekpenyon, to whom he gave fifty young girls as wives, but the prince did not like any of them. The king was very angry at this, and made a law that if any man had a daughter who was finer than the prince's wives, and who found favour in his son's eyes, the girl herself and her father and mother should be killed.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was once a king who was very powerful. He had great influence over the wild beasts and animals. Now the tortoise was looked upon as the wisest of all beasts and men. This king had a son named Ekpenyon, to whom he gave fifty young girls as wives, but the prince did not like any of them. The king was very angry at this, and made a law that if any man had a daughter who was finer than the prince's wives, and who found favour in his son's eyes, the girl herself and her father and mother should be killed.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781693610271
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria is a book published in 1910. The book contains forty folk stories and fairy tales from Southern Nigeria. The stories were collected by Elphinstone Dayrell, then the District Commissioner of the region. The book has an introduction by Andrew Lang, famous for his series of fairy books.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781298387073
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria West Africa - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
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ISBN 13 : 9781692752682
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria is a book published in 1910. The book contains forty folk stories and fairy tales from Southern Nigeria. The stories were collected by Elphinstone Dayrell, then the District Commissioner of the region. The book has an introduction by Andrew Lang, famous for his series of fairy books.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781071181539
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MANY years ago a book on the Folk-Tales of the Eskimo was published, and the editor of The Academy (Dr. Appleton) told one of his minions to send it to me for revision. By mischance it was sent to an eminent expert in Political Economy, who, never suspecting any error, took the book for the text of an interesting essay on the economics of the blameless Hyperboreans."Mr. Dayrell's "Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria" appeal to the anthropologist within me, no less than to the lover of what children and older people call "Fairy Tales." The stories are full of mentions of strange institutions, as well as of rare adventures. The most striking point in the tales is the combination of good humour and good feeling with horrible cruelties, and the reign of terror of the Egbos and lesser societies. European influences can scarcely do much harm, apart from whisky, in Nigeria. As to religion, we do not learn that the Creator receives any sacrifice: in savage and barbaric countries He usually gets none. Only Ju Jus, whether ghosts or fiends in general, are propitiated. The Other is 'too high and too far.'" -Andrew Lang
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395539637
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.
Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0871407566
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images
