Bundy. Folktales from Liberia

Today's free book is Folktales from Liberia by Richard C. Bundy (Journal of American folklore v.32 1919). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).


Table of Contents

1. The good child and the bad
2. The origin of death
3. Why death stayed in the world
4. Tricky hosts
5. Nymo apportions
6. Nymo and hornbill
7. Leopard's spots
8. Nymo and Bat
9. Dancing at the spring
10. Reputation
11. Death, Disease, and Shame
12. Hunter takes Nymo's place
13. Impossible against impossible
14. Can you have a farm without a road to it?
15. Nymo seeks wisdom
16. Playing dead
17. Leopard and tortoise
18. Possum and palm-nut
19. Crow's coat of feathers
20. Dog and goat
21. Eagle and sparrow
22. Why cats kill rats
23. Why frogs croak
24. Fishing where the water people live
25. Dog and medicine-man
26. Grasshopper and Bush-King
27. How Hunger first got into belly
28. Why people have names
29. Why one grain of rice no longer fills the pot
30. The origin of thunder and lightning
31. Day and night
32. Sun and moon
33. King Hunger
34. Fox and rooster
35. Cockroach in fowl country
36. Premature
37. The wisdom of a little child
38. Mother crab and her children
39. Parable of the bullock
40. The death-grin
41. Opportunity
42. The war palaver
43. Learn the step