TITLE

Animal folktales

PUB. DATE

March 1985

SOURCE

International Wildlife;Mar/Apr85, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p24

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Animal folktales are part of a nation's heritage, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where stories have been handed down by word of mouth generation after generation. Four such stories are told: Why the zebra has no horns; Kalulu and the tug of war; Kalulu and the lion; and How the tortoise got his shell.

ACCESSION #

8500013380

Tags: FOLKLORE

 

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