Today's free book is The Ila-speaking peoples of Northern Rhodesia by Edwin W. Smith and Andrew Murray Dale (1920). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image. I have transcribed the titles of the folktales only, which are found in Volume 2.
The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).
Table of Contents
Proverbs
Riddles
Conundrums
Folktales
Etiological or Explanatory Tales
1 How the Mason-Wasp Fetched Fire from God
2 The Blue-Jay who Married the Daughter of God
3 How God First Gave Men Grain and Fruits
4 Why Men Became Baboons
5 The Origin of Murder
6 How the Ringdove Came by Its Ring
7 How Ringdove Got Her Name: Giver-of-happiness-to-men-to-girls-not-so-much
8 How Honey-Guide Came to Have Authority over Honey
9 Why Honey-Guide Betrays the Bees to People
10 How Squirrel Robbed Coney of his Tail
11 How Squirrel and Jackal Became Distant
12 How Skunk Came to be a Helper of Men
13 Why Duiker has a Fine Coat and Parti-Colored Tail
14 How Elephant Lost his Clothing
15 Why the Elephant is Distinct from the Wart-Hog
16 Why the Wart-Hog Lives in a Burrow
17 Why Bushbuck Came to Have a Red Coat
18 Why Jackals Do not Got in Herds
19 Why Zebra Has no Horns
20 Why Leopard and Cheetah Became Distinct
21 Tortoise, Because of the Way She and Fish-Eagle Deceived Each Other, Does not Eat Meat
22 Why Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus Became Distinct
23 Why the Cracks in Tortoise's Shell
24 Why Hornbill Has Such a Big Beak and Tom-Tit a Small One
The Adventures of Sulwe, the Hare
1 Why Hare Had His Destiny Foretold by Tortoise
2 Hare Makes Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros Engage in a Tug-of-War
3 Hare Deceives Lion and Burns Him to Death
4 Hare Plays a Trick upon the Dragon
5 Hare Makes Himself Horns of Beeswax
6 Hare Plays a Trick on Ground Hornbill
7 Hare Scares Hyena
8 Hare Causes Lion to be Stung to Death by Bees
9 Hyena, Incited thereto by Hare, Wants to Wear a Lion Skin
10 How Hare and Crocodile Helped Each Other
11 Hare Kills Many Lions
12 Hare Deceives Jackal Three Times
13 Hare Breaks All Lion's Teeth and so Kills Him
14 Hare Eats Lion's Children
15 Hare is Outwitted by Mrs. Tortoise
16 How Hare Deceives the Animals and Drives Them Away from the Fruit
17 How Hare Made a Fool of Himself
18 Hare's Last Adventures and Death
Tales of People and Animals
1 The Man who Called Lions to his Aid
2 Kantanga and the Lions
3 The Woman who Married a Fish
Tales of People—Mostly Fools
1 The Little Old Woman who Changed into a Maiden
2 The Little Old Woman who Killed a Child
3 The Foolish Woman who Killed her CHild
4 The Fool that Hunted for his Axe
5 The Fool who Chopped Himself
6 The Fool who Lay Down and Slept in the Road
7 The Fools who Started Mourning when Promised Some Milk with their Bread
8 The Fools who Waited for Ground-Nuts to Fall from a Tree
9 How Two Men Had a Dispute
10 The Scold who Split her Mouth
11 The Man and the Mushrooms
12 The Bogle and his Child
13 Tales of an Expectant Mother's Fantasies
14 A Man and his Mother
15 The Child who Wanted to Sleep in the Middle
