Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Reading Diary B: Nigerian Folktales

The Story of the Lightening  and the Thunder

  • The story is about a mother sheep (thunder) and her son ram (lightening).
  • The story goes that lightening would get mad and go burn houses and knock down trees and sometimes even kill people
  • Lightening's mother thunder would always call out to lightning to make him stop 
  • One day the people got tired of the destruction and went to the king to make it stop
  • The king cast them out to another bush and made them live in the sky where they now remain
  • Sometimes Lighting still causes damage and you can still hear its mother thunder calling.
  • This story is about two brothers with one of them owning a pet cock
  • Soon after a poor local who pretended to be their friend
  • The poor local eventually started telling lies to each brother about what was happening with the cock which eventually started a war
  • At the end of the war it was realized that poor local and the cock had started so both were killed

Lightening 


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