Reading Notes: Stories from Congo (Part B)

Bibliography: The following 'Stories from Congo' were in Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort by R.E. Dennett

The Turtle And The Man was a short but silly story about a turtle who swindled meat from animals that trusted him but got payback when one animal figured out his scheme and killed him instead. My favorite part, I think, was the ending, when the last animal met the man (friend of turtle) and explained what happened, and the man said he was 'quite right' to have killed the turtle. It was such a casual conversation, and that was funny to me.

The Fight Between The Two Fetishes reminds me of stories people (like myself) tend to tell where one takes a bunch of detours and includes irrelevant details only for the main point to have been so simple. All that fluff for the majority of it for the main story to be: one guy steals seashells and saltwater from another guy after being pushed into an ant hill, so the first guy cursing his items is why his land has no more of those things, and the latter cursing the ant hill is why there aren't any on his land.

Why The Crocodile Does Not Eat The Hen is the kind of story that puts life into a different perspective. Even though the hen is a completely different species and would normally be prey for the crocodile, she is only doing the same thing (laying eggs) that the crocodile does, as well as the croc's friend Mbambi the lizard. In that way, the hen considers him 'a brother.'

Rays of Helios