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The Child with a Moon on his Chest is a South African folktale from the Sotho people. It is related to the cycle of the Calumniated Wife, and is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children".
Many folktales are unique to African-American culture, while African, European, and Native American tales influenced others. [8] In the present, the impact of African American folklore is apparent in Hip-Hop music, where themes like gangsters and pimps draw heavily from the “badman” and “trickster” archetypes.
A folktale that calls to mind the European fairy tale The Beauty and the Beast on the one hand, yet fits Miruka's description [4] of a tale involving African ogre characters, is Brolloks en Bittergal by C.J. Langenhoven. [26] It was first published in 1925, and has kept Afrikaans-speaking listeners spellbound from one generation to the next ...
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.
Folklore of Africa. For ancient folklore and myths of Africa, see Category:African mythology. Subcategories.
The English rock band Skunk Anansie (1994–2001, 2009–present) took the name of the spider-man of the West African folk tales, but with a slightly different spelling, and added "Skunk" to the name, to make the name nastier. [52] Children's singer Raffi wrote and recorded the song "Anansi" for his 1979 Corner Grocery Store album. The song ...
In one aetiological tale Mbekwu gets taken by the birds to a feast in the sky. When he eats all the food, the birds stop him from flying back to the earth, and he falls, which is how the tortoises got the patterns on their shells.
Dog, and His Human Speech is a Central African folktale collected by missionary Robert Hamill Nassau, from the Tanga people.According to scholars, the tale is related to the folkloric theme of the Calumniated Wife, and finds parallels with European variants of tale type ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index.