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Traditional folktales from Ethiopian (Ethiopia), passed down through generations in East African Folktales.

"Painting of an Ethiopian woman gently reaching toward a resting lion in a lush mountain landscape, illustrating a scene from the folktale The Lion’s Whiskers."

The Lion’s Whiskers

African Folktales·East African Folktales·Ethiopian Folktales

In the highlands of ancient Ethiopia, where the coffee plants first learned to bloom and the morning mist clings to mountain peaks like ancestral spirits, there lived a woman whose heart carried both joy and sorrow. She had recently married a kind man from her village, a widower whose gentle nature had drawn her love like honey draws bees. But

Parchment-style African folktale illustration of clever fox stealing food while two monkeys face lion’s cave.

African Folktales·East African Folktales·Ethiopian Folktales

The Cunning Fox and the Monkeys

In the vast African savanna, where acacia trees stretched their thorny branches toward the endless sky and the red earth baked under the scorching sun, there lived two monkeys who had been companions for many seasons. Their friendship had weathered countless adventures, from swinging through the baobab groves to sharing