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Parchment-style illustration of five Somali sisters abandoned in the bush, meeting shepherd girl with goats at dusk.

Degder and the Five Sisters: A Somali Folktale that Teaches Forgiveness

Long ago, in the wide sun-baked lands of Somalia where acacia trees cast their thin shadows and camels groaned in the thorny bush, there lived two brothers. One had five sons, the other five daughters. Both men were widowers, and in time they married again. The second brother’s new wife, however, grew bitter. She despised her husband’s daughters, quarreled endlessly,

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