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McPherson. Native Fairy Tales of South Africa

Today's free book is Native Fairy Tales of South Africa by Ethel L. McPherson. This is a collection of stories from the Zulu and Sesuto (Sotho) peoples of South Africa; specifically, they are reworkings of stories you can find in Callaway's Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus and Jacottet's The Treasury of Basuto Lore.

For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at the Baldwin Project and Hathi Trust.

The illustrations are by Helen Jacobs, and I have made a Flickr collection.


The Magic Lute
Senkenpeng and Bulane
The Daughter of the Sword
The Queen of the Pigeons
The Tall Princess and the Haunted Pool
The Marriage of Untombinde
The Kingdome Above the Earth
The Moon-Child
The Princess and the Frog
The Two Brothers
The Childless Woman
The Daughter of the Ostrich Egg
The Kingdoms of the Dead
When the World was Young
Umnandi and the Goat-Girl
Zim the Cannibal
The Horns of Plenty
The Dumb Prince
The Girl with the Lute
The Lost Beads
The Snake with Five Heads
Tanga the Child of Night




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