moral lessons in folklore

Father hiding in basket, daughters in tree, old woman approaching, Mossi village folklore illustration.

The Witch: A Mossi Folktale That Teaches Lessons on Caution and Vigilance

African Folktales·Burkinabe Folktales·West African Folktales

Once upon a time, there lived a man who had several daughters. Each day, when he returned home from his work in the fields, he would notice with increasing alarm that one of his daughters had disappeared. Puzzled and worried, he would ask the others what had happened, and they would reply in fearful voices, “When you left, an old

The Giant Goat of Njambe: A Fang Folktale of Cunning and Greed

Long ago, in the time when animals built towns and shared the earth with gifts from the Creator, two unlikely companions, Tortoise and Leopard, lived together in peace. They had built a thriving settlement, cleared plantations, and survived on vegetables alone. But the hunger for meat weighed heavily on them,

The Witch: A Mossi Folktale That Teaches Lessons on Caution and Vigilance

The Giant Goat of Njambe: A Fang Folktale of Cunning and Greed

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