[Inhoudsopgave]: Contents Volume One I. The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter 11 II. How a Hunter obtained Money from his Friends the Leopard, Goat, Bush Cat, and Cock, and how he got out of repaying them 16 III. The Woman with Two Skins 21 IV. The Kings Magic Drum 30 V. Ituen and the Kings Wife 39 VI. Of the Pretty Stranger who Killed the King 43 VII. Why the Bat flies by Night 46 VIII. The Disobedient Daughter who Married a Skull 48 IX. The King who Married the Cocks Daughter 52 X. The Woman, the Ape, and the Child 56 XI. The Fish and the Leopards Wife; or, Why the Fish lives in the Water 59 XII. Why the Bat is Ashamed to be seen in the Daytime 61 XIII. Why the Worms live Underneath the Ground 65 XIV. The Elephant and the Tortoise; or, Why the Worms are Blind and Why the Elephant has Small Eyes 67 XV. Why a Hawk kills Chickens 71 XVI. Why the Sun and the Moon live in the Sky 73 XVII. Why the Flies Bother the Cows 75 XVIII. Why the Cat kills Rats 77 XIX. The Story of the Lightning and the Thunder 79 XX. Why the Bush Cow and the Elephant are bad Friends 81 XXI. The Cock who caused a Fight between two Towns 85 XXII. The Affair of the Hippopotamus and the Tortoise; or, Why the Hippopotamus lives in the Water 88 XXIII. Why Dead People are Buried 90 XXIV. Of the Fat Woman who Melted Away 92 XXV. Concerning the Leopard, the Squirrel, and the Tortoise 95 XXVI. Why the Moon Waxes and Wanes 100 XXVII. The Story of the Leopard, the Tortoise, and the Bush Rat 102 XXVIII. The King and the Ju Ju Tree 107 XXIX. How the Tortoise overcame the Elephant and the Hippopotamus 113 XXX. Of the Pretty Girl and the Seven Jealous Women 116 XXXI. How the Cannibals drove the People from Insofan Mountain to the Cross River (Ikom) 124 XXXII. The Lucky Fisherman 128 XXXIII. The Orphan Boy and the Magic Stone 130 XXXIV. The Slave Girl who tried to Kill her Mistress 134 XXXV. The King and the Nsiat Bird 141 XXXVI. Concerning the Fate of Essido and his Evil Companions 143 XXXVII. Concerning the Hawk and the Owl 150 XXXVIII. The Story of the Drummer and the Alligators 153 XXXIX. The Nsasak Bird and the Odudu Bird 160 XL. The Election of the King Bird 163 Appendix 167 Contents Volume Two Preface 181 I. How an Inkum Woman Abandoned One of Her Twins in the Forest, and How it was Saved by the Hawk 193 II. The Cunning Hare; or, Why the Tortoise has a Patched Shell 198 III. The Story of Igiri and her husband Inkang, who brought up a Mushroom Baby Boy, and what became of Him 205 IV. How Elili of Inkum Died, and was Brought Back to Live Again 209 V. Concerning the Human Sacrifices which took Place on the Death of Chief Indoma 212 Vl. The Story of the Witch who tried to Kill her Husband; or, why Native Dogs refuse to Obey their Masters 216 VII. How Two Friends fell out: the Spider and the Grasshopper 220 VIII. How Ewa Abagi, an Inkum Woman, was Drowned in the Cross River, and how She was Rescued by the Young Men of Insofan 227 IX. The Story of the War between Inkum and Enfitop 232 X. How an Inkum Boy was Drowned by His Companions and How they were Punished 243 XI. How a Father Tried to Kill One of his Sons but Failed 251 XII. Concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism 259 XIII. Of Chief Amaza, his wife Achi and the Tortoise 269 XIV. The Fate of Agbor the Hunter, who killed his Wife and Children 274 XV. What happened at Okuni when anyone was killed by Accident 278 XVI. How Oghabi poisened his friend Okpa and family, or why a Host should Always eat First from the Food which he gives to his Guests 280 XVII. How Chief Alankor and all his Family were Killed by a Big Frog, or why the Cock Crows at Dawn 286 XVIII. How the River came into Existence; or, Why a Crab has no Head 291 XIX. Why the Mist rises from the Water 294 XX. How Ibanang Okpong and her Mother were Swallowed by a Man-eating Drum, and how they Escaped from its Inside 300 XXI. Why the Head of the Male Goat Smells so Strong 307 XXII. A Story of the Great Famine 312 XXIII. Why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover 318 XXIV. How Nyambi punished Chief Oga for trying to Commit Adultery with His Wife Obim 324 XXV. How Two Bendega Young Men changed their Skins 333 XXVI. Concerning the Ju-Ju against Elephantiasis, or How The Hares lost their Long Tails 338 XXVII. How a cruel Inkum Chief was Poisened by his Slaves, and How his Son Hanged Himself on account of the Expenses of his Brothers Funeral 350 XXVIII. How the Frog Beat the Bush Buck in a Race, and Won his Daughter as a Wife 360 XXIX. Why a Python never Swallows a Tortoise 364 XXX. The Game of Hide-and-Seek as Played by the Hawk and the Bush Cow 367 XXXI. Chief Kekongs Daughter Ndere who married a Python 372 XXXII. How Agbor Adam broke the Hunting Law of Okuni, and How He was Punished 383 XXXIII. How Essama Stole het Fathers Goat in the Fatting-house, and her Brother was Punished for it 391 Quomodo evenit ut Penis primum cum Vagina coiit 397 How it happened that the Penis first united with the Vagina 399 Post Scriptum about the author and book[Flaptekst]: A journey through Nigerias dark and spicy folklore In the early 20th century Elphinstone Dayrell, a district commissioner located in Ikom, Eastern Province, Nigeria, collected many folk tales from the Efik and Ibibio peoples of Southeastern Nigeria. The scope of these tales encompasses local mythology and stories suitable for children, to tales so cruel they will still shock a modern public. Dayrell authored two collections of folklore. The first was published as Folk stories from Southern Nigeria (1911), containing 40 stories. The second one he entitled Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, which was published by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1913. For the first time these works are brought together in one carefully revised volume: Nigerian Folk Stories Collected From The Efik, Ibibio& People of Ikom. This edition comes with a Post Scriptum that offers extra information about the Efik and Obibio and themes that reoccur in the Southern Nigerian folklore as the city of Calabar, the secret fraternity Ekbo or Ekpo and Juju, a centuries old West African tradition that covers a shamanistic and animistic religion as well as medicine, magic, witchcraft, the aura of objects and beings, and finally a fetisj or other magical objects.
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