African Legends

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Anansi and the chameleon	Cagn and the baboons
Death comes to mankind	How anansi became a spider
How anansi tricked god	How brothers and sisters first came to quarrel and hate each other
How the crocodile got its skin	How the heron got a bend in its neck
How the jackal got his black back	How the zebra got his stripes
King of the birds	Lions wings and lion's bones
Story of the bird that made milk	The lost message
The monkey's fiddle	The story of five heads.
The tiger, the ram, and the jackal	The antelope and the goat farm together
The bachelors and the python	The bad man
The crocodile and the dog	The curious monkey
The friendship of the tortoise and the eagle	The game board
The jackal's lawsuit	The lion and the hare go hunting
The marriage of the mouse	The origins of procreation
The rabbit grows a crop of money	The rabbit steals the elephant's dinner
The salt trader's justice	The servant who shot a bush goat
The squirrel mocks the gull	The squirrel and the hyena were neighbours
The three young men	The woodcutter of gura
The cleverness of the squirrel	The eagle and the buzzard
The elephant and his slaves	The frog and the mouse
The hunter and the lion	The lion and the leopard
The lion and the mouse	The monkey trial
The ram and his friend	The story of the boy and the old woman, and how the wasp got his small waist
The story of the slave by name 'the world'	The three slaves
The two friends	The wise little goat
To the blacksmith shop	True friendship
Tsakuramadu and his grandmother	Two men go on a journey
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