The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda
Rosetta Baskerville
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Rosetta Baskerville was the wife of George Baskerville, a missionary in Uganda. Some of the folktales in this book, published in 1925, are stories that Baskerville heard herself, while other stories she adapted from the Baganda folktales collected by Apollo Kaggwa [1864–1927]. You will find origin stories here, like the origin of the flame tree and of the flowers called "Nsangi's tears." There are fairy tales like "The Buffalo Maiden" and "The River Fairy." The main trickster character is the hare (rabbit), as in the story of "The Elephant That Wanted to Dance" and The Hare Who Earned a Cow and a Chieftainship." Some of the stories are connected with proverbs, like "The Absent-minded Bridegroom" and "The Quits of Gomba," and there are riddles in the story of "The Holy Man." This book is a follow-up to Baskerville's first collection of folktales from Uganda, The King of the Snakes and Other Folklore Stories from Uganda, published in 1922. (Summary by Laura Gibbs) (2 hr 11 min)
Chapters
Preface | 1:26 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Flame Tree | 6:25 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Buffalo Maiden | 9:52 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Mpa Bana Bird | 2:48 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Absentminded Bridegroom | 1:55 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Singer | 1:17 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Famine | 4:28 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Quits of Gomba | 2:07 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Dog and the Leopard | 3:17 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Leopard, the Hare, and the Monkey | 4:58 | Read by laurakgibbs |
Musoke the Moon-Boy | 10:55 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Elephant That Wanted to Dance | 6:38 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1:53 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Story of Nsangi and the Apes | 7:27 | Read by laurakgibbs |
Soliloquy of Old Age in a Banana Garden | 1:38 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Law Concerning Fortune-tellers | 6:42 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Holy Man | 8:33 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Cheats of Kijongo | 2:20 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Story of the Frog | 4:05 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Hare Who Earned a Cow and a Chieftainship | 6:35 | Read by laurakgibbs |
Song of a Muhima Herding Cattle in Bugerere | 1:34 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Lion-Girl | 4:57 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Story of the Wonderful Goat | 5:14 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The River Fairy | 13:51 | Read by laurakgibbs |
The Royal Puff Adders of Budo | 10:34 | Read by laurakgibbs |