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South African Folklore originates from an oral, historical tradition. [1] It is rooted in the region's landscape [2] with animals [3] – and the animal kingdom – playing a dominant role. [4] Some of the subjects covered include: plant life taking on a human form, women being married to gods, messages being delivered by thunder.
The boy tells the whole story and shows Bulane the moon birthmark. Bulane takes the boy to his village and places him in his hut, and summons a great meeting, with slaughtered oxen and beer. Before the assembled crowd, Bulane introduces the boy with the moon on the breast as his son, dresses his mother in fine clothes, appoints his son as his ...
ǀKaggen (more accurately ǀKágge̥n or ǀKaggən, [1] sometimes corrupted to Cagn [2] and sometimes called Mantis) is a demiurge and folk hero of the San people of southern Africa. [3] He is a trickster god who can shape shift , usually taking the form of a praying mantis but also a bull eland , a louse , a snake , and a caterpillar .
Pages in category "South African legendary creatures" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This theme, according to him, seemed "a popular subject in South African folklore", [18] with variants appearing in Xhosa and Zulu folklore. [19] L. Marillier, in an 1896 review of Jacottet's French language publication, had also noted that the story of Monyohe was a variation of plots about the marriage between a woman and a serpent. [20]
This is a list of African spirits as well as deities found within the traditional African religions.It also covers spirits as well as deities found within the African religions—which is mostly derived from traditional African religions.
The lightning bird or impundulu or thekwane (or izulu, [1] inyoni yezulu [2]) is a creature in the folklore of the Zulu people. [1] [2] [3]The impundulu (which translates as "lightning bird") takes the form of a black and white bird, the size of a person, which is said to summon thunder and lightning with its wings and talons.
The South African journalist and author Lawrence G. Green describes the Wonder Hole as being located three miles from the Orange River, near the Annisfontein spring, and that native folklore describes two white men as descending into the cave to retrieve "stones that sparkled like fire".