African+Folktales

== A folktale is a story that is handed down orally by people. Folktales were created by the comman people to explain the world around them. They used theses stories to make reasons for natural occurrences that they observed. ==

The Gift of a Cow tail switch.
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This poem is about a young warrior that wanted to save his father. His older magician brothers found ruined spears, and a hill of bones. Each son wanted the gift to give to his father. Each one of the sons thought they did the most to get the gift to save there father. But the youngest warrior got the gift because he saved his life!

Why turtles live in water.
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This poem is about hunters that caught a turtle. Turtles used to live on the land. Then a group hunters caught the turtle and started to argue about how to cook it. The turtle told them to drown him. The hunters were congratulating themselves when two eyes poked out of the water. The turtle laughed at them and swam away. He said that he thought he would stay safely in the water for the rest of his life.

One Good Meal Deserves Another []

This folktale is about Turtle and Anansi the spider. Anansi is very greedy and hates to share anything. When Turtle comes over to eat he does not share and eats all of the food before Turtle can get any. Then after that Turtle gets revenge on Anansi by playing a trick on him and make Anansi watch him eat all his food while he watches.