Rattray. Hausa Folklore

Today's free book is Hausa folk-lore, customs, proverbs, etc.,  by R. Sutherland Rattray (1913). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust plus Internet Archive Vol. I and Vol 2 (I have not checked for other online sources).



Hausa Heroes and Heroines (Volume 1)

1. The story of the slave by name "The World"
2. How brothers and sisters first came to quarrel and hate each other 
3. The story of the boy and the old woman, and how the wasp got his small waist 
4. The story about a beautiful maiden, and how the hartebeest got the marks under its eyes like teardrops 
5. How the whip and the "mara" spoon (a broken bit of calabash) came to the haunts of men
6. A story about a chief, and how his sons observed his funeral, and the origin of the spider
7. A story about an orphan, showing that "he who sows evil, it comes forth in his own garden"
8. A story about a witch, and how the baby of the family outwitted her, and invented the first walled town
9. The doctor who went a pilgrimage to Mecca on a hyena
10. A story about a chief and his cook
11. A story about three youths all skilled in certain things, and how they used that skill to circumvent a difficulty
12. A story about a giant, and the cause of thunder
13. A story about an orphan which was the origin of the saying "The orphan with a coat of skin is hated, but when it is a metal one he is honoured"
14. A story of a jealous man and what befell him
15. A story of a great friendship and how it was put to the test
16. A story about a test of skill
17. A story about Miss Salt, Miss Pepper, &c.
18. The story of Mos (Moses) and how it came about thatbrothers and sisters do not marry each other
19. A story about a hunter and his son
20. A story about a maiden and the pumpkin
21. The Gawo-tree and the maiden, and the first person who ever went mad

Animal Stories (Volume 2)

22. The lion and the leopard
23. The water of Ladi and how the hyena was made to disgorge the maiden he had eaten
24. The lizard and the hyena
25. The he-goat and how he came to be a domestic animal
26. The beetle and how he got his thatching done for him
27. The spider and the lion
28. The spider and the crows
29. The spider and the dodo
30. The spider, and the hippo, and the elephant