Family stories

A traditional folktale illustration in warm earthy tones shows a lifeless old woman lying on the floor of a rustic room, surrounded by scattered bones. A sinister hyena looms over her, snarling. Outside the open door, two grieving daughters react in horror one covering her mouth, the other clutching her head. The background features a lone tree and rolling hills under a parchment-toned sky. The only text is “OldFolktales.com” in the top right corner.

The Old Woman and the Hyena

African Folktales·Senegalese Folktales·West African Folktales·Wolof Folktales

In the sunbaked villages of Senegal, where the ancient Wolof people have passed down their wisdom through countless generations, there lived a family touched by both love and misfortune. At the heart of this household was an elderly mother whose gentle spirit had nurtured her children through many seasons, but who now found herself afflicted by a painful ailment that

The Old Woman and the Hyena

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