African Folk Tales, Introduction

Traditionally, stories from Africa have been communicated by word of mouth. After a long day's work they are often told by the moonlight around the fire of the village. When our parents tell us about sleeping story, these stories rarely end with the words of children we often hear - and "they have been living a happy life ever since ". Since then, most stories have not been enjoyable. Usually these stories teach lessons, and selfish people often learn lessons in a difficult way.

This includes three folk stories collected in Liberia. The first, spider and honey tree, deals with one of the most popular animals in West Africa. Spiders are known for their skillful skills, but they do not always act according to his intentions. In the second episode, Black Snake and Egg, Black Snake designed a way to live happily ever after. Unfortunately, this usually does not happen in Africa's story. In the last story, "It is not the fool's chief" there is a wise leader. His wisdom meets a very intellectual wife.

There is nothing better than reading the Arabian Nights, Norse myths, or the story of African folklore that allows children to understand a specific culture. In particular, there are similar stories such as "Lon Po Po" and "Red Riding Hood", each story has its own narrator's culture and tradition. Like life, many fairy tales do not have a happy ending. A bad thing happened. Read the story and talk about them with your children. C. S. Lewis thinks that "sometimes fairy tales can best communicate what they need to say." After reading, "Does this story tell you the truth about the world?"

According to scholars, the original story is close to the verbal tradition and is "more rude, energetic, and shining." In the introduction of Brother Grim brothers' original brothers and fairy tales, Marina Warner said "We have redrawn the map I believe is known" and said that the stories of Brother Grimm "changed very strangely again" did. The original holds "a painful and innocent taste of oral tradition" and they are "exactly that amazing story, because they are so dull and unpretentious", Grimes said their "sentimental Ideology without adding Christian and Puritan

In the south of the United States, Trixter's story comes from European settlers, and slave African Americans and Native Americans are gradually integrated into a new generation of folklore. The most famous of these stories is the witty rabbit Br'er Rabbit with extraordinary talent to get out of trouble. Trickster gods and animals are mostly historical books, but the character of Trickster is still very good and still exists. They are even thought to be Joseph Campbell's theory of 'hero's journey', a key figure of the basic level theory that all literary works follow the same plot and contain the same letters. When doing the inspection