Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 26, 2024

In Category - Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Culture & Heritage Fiction

Authors: Rosetta Baskerville In Year : 1925

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda

Preface
The Flame Tree
The Buffalo Maiden
The Mpa Bana Bird
The Absentminded Bridegroom
The Singer
The Famine
The Quits of Gomba
The Dog and the Leopard
The Leopard, the Hare, and the Monkey
Musoke the Moon-Boy
The Elephant That Wanted to Dance
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Story of Nsangi and the Apes
Soliloquy of Old Age in a Banana Garden
The Law Concerning Fortune-tellers
The Holy Man
The Cheats of Kijongo
The Story of the Frog
The Hare Who Earned a Cow and a Chieftainship
Song of a Muhima Herding Cattle in Bugerere
The Lion-Girl
The Story of the Wonderful Goat
The River Fairy
The Royal Puff Adders of Budo

Rosetta Baskerville was the wife of George Baskerville, a missionary in Uganda. Some of the folktales in this book, published in 1925, are stories that Baskerville heard herself, while other stories she adapted from the Baganda folktales collected by Apollo Kaggwa [1864–1927]. You will find origin stories here, like the origin of the flame tree and of the flowers called "Nsangi's tears." There are fairy tales like "The Buffalo Maiden" and "The River Fairy." The main trickster character is the hare (rabbit), as in the story of "The Elephant That Wanted to Dance" and The Hare Who Earned a Cow and a Chieftainship." Some of the stories are connected with proverbs, like "The Absent-minded Bridegroom" and "The Quits of Gomba," and there are riddles in the story of "The Holy Man." This book is a follow-up to Baskerville's first collection of folktales from Uganda, The King of the Snakes and Other Folklore Stories from Uganda, published in 1922. (Summary by Laura Gibbs)