Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort, by Richard Edward Dennett, [1898], at sacred-texts.com

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION, BY MISS KINGSLEY

1. THE FOLKLORE OF THE FJORT

II. HOW A NATIVE STORY IS TOLD

III. HOW THE WIVES RESTORED THEIR HUSBAND TO LIFE

IV. HOW NSASSI (GAZELLE) GOT MARRIED

V. THE VANISHING WIFE

VI. ANOTHER VANISHING WIFE

VII. THE JEALOUS WIFE

VIII. NGAMBA's BALLOON

IX. THE WICKED HUSBAND

X. THE WONDERFUL CHILD

XI. HOW KENGI LOST HER CHILD

XII. THE TWIN BROTHERS

XIII. THE YOUNGER BROTHER WHO KNEW MORE THAN THE ELDER

XIV. THE CHIMPANZEE AND GORILLA

XV. THE ANTELOPE AND THE LEOPARD

XVI. HOW THE SPIDER WON AND LOST NZAMBI'S DAUGHTER

XVII. THE TURTLE AND THE MAN

XVIII. KILLING A LEOPARD

XIX. THE GAZELLE AND THE LEOPARD

XX. THE WILD CAT AND THE GAZELLE

XXI. THE CRAFTY WOMAN OVERREACHES HERSELF

XXII. HOW THE FETISH SUNGA PUNISHED MY GREAT-UNCLE'S TWIN BROTHER, BASA

XXIII. THE RABB1T AND THE ANTELOPE

XXIV. THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE TWO FETISHES, LIFUMA AND CHIMPUKELA

XXV. THE FETISH OF CHILUNGA

XXVI. THE LEOPARD AND THE CROCODILE

XXVII. WHY SOME MEN ARE WHITE AND OTHERS BLACK

XXVIII. THE BIRD-MESSENGERS

XXIX. NZAMBI MPUNGU'S AMBASSADOR

XXX. WHY THE CROCODILE DOES NOT EAT THE HEN

XXXI. THE THREE BROTHERS

XXXII, DEATH AND BURIAL OF THE FJORT

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

INDEX