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The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda

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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

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The Flame Tree

6:25

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The Buffalo Maiden

9:52

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The Mpa Bana Bird

2:48

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The Absentminded Bridegroom

1:55

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The Singer

1:17

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The Famine

4:28

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The Quits of Gomba

2:07

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The Dog and the Leopard

3:17

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The Leopard, the Hare, and the Monkey

4:58

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Musoke the Moon-Boy

10:55

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The Elephant That Wanted to Dance

6:38

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

1:53

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The Story of Nsangi and the Apes

7:27

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Soliloquy of Old Age in a Banana Garden

1:38

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The Law Concerning Fortune-tellers

6:42

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The Holy Man

8:33

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The Cheats of Kijongo

2:20

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The Story of the Frog

4:05

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The Hare Who Earned a Cow and a Chieftainship

6:35

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Song of a Muhima Herding Cattle in Bugerere

1:34

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The Lion-Girl

4:57

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The Story of the Wonderful Goat

5:14

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The River Fairy

13:51

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The Royal Puff Adders of Budo

10:34

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