tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16242057181217348032024-02-19T04:03:08.601-05:00Spring 2021 Online Course DiaryA chronicle of my adventures in my last semester of teaching/colearning at the University of Oklahoma.Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comBlogger546125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-18680250898113348332021-04-25T23:51:00.003-04:002021-05-03T10:30:34.121-04:00Famous Last Words... a house!<p>So last week was totally overwhelming already (second Pfizer shot, doing a keynote for OERxDomains conference, among other adventures)... and then this weekend, my husband and I put in a bid on a house, and we just found out late on Sunday evening that the owners accepted our offer. So, I'm going to be starting my retirement in a new house, and it looks amazing. The best part is the woods around the house, which have walking trails:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZ6wLmNX_hS4OJwZU78hEHwcN5AqdL1wsejtvUIVGgY0SkToNcAtXDtjxZDMUyp2q08wFkwXxqggE00ffyYHbdNYVkhnUvNTLL_Fi5Dn8RNYRCVeU3hFY9cbGh1BqI0BQ1tT8LaHjKJo/s533/PXL_20210425_182518562.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZ6wLmNX_hS4OJwZU78hEHwcN5AqdL1wsejtvUIVGgY0SkToNcAtXDtjxZDMUyp2q08wFkwXxqggE00ffyYHbdNYVkhnUvNTLL_Fi5Dn8RNYRCVeU3hFY9cbGh1BqI0BQ1tT8LaHjKJo/s16000/PXL_20210425_182518562.jpg" /></a></div><p>The woods where we live now are beautiful too (we live about an hour away from the new house), but our woods are not like this: where we live now we have lots of undergrowth and bushes and so on, so that you can't just walk through the woods (at least, not without a machete, ha ha)... but this forest is like a movie set or something: woods perfect for walking in.</p><p>There are also wonderful built-in bookcases in the room that will be my study. I'm guessing this will be the first time in, uh... forever, when I will actually be able to have all my books out on bookshelves; right now I've got boxes of books in my closet. In fact, my closet is basically full of boxes of books. Now I'll have a study and there is also a guest room where I can put the bookcases that are in my study now (guests will have lots of things to read if they want, ha ha). This is the room that will be the study; it's a children's bedroom right now (the owners are still living in the house). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nUDU9ITGKlzOAenKz_2mcTCwq-SRNiy22ah_YvrbTfRQFhj4meMMvS3OpqGnWmC5iH3Fq1Kp3CKaXJClK9aB6WD1osjFWyZ_xLUBhuvDAXX_TfAgaZoCZcT07y99AGR52Ug2d4Uc8Gw/s1123/Screenshot+2021-04-25+11.40.46+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="1123" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nUDU9ITGKlzOAenKz_2mcTCwq-SRNiy22ah_YvrbTfRQFhj4meMMvS3OpqGnWmC5iH3Fq1Kp3CKaXJClK9aB6WD1osjFWyZ_xLUBhuvDAXX_TfAgaZoCZcT07y99AGR52Ug2d4Uc8Gw/w400-h206/Screenshot+2021-04-25+11.40.46+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>It gets good light and should be really nice and quiet too, even more quiet than where we live now because it is way way way off the main road down a gravel road through the woods. </p><p>Anyway, I still can't quite believe it is really happening, but this is the weekend when this new life adventure began. If all goes well, we'll close in a month and start moving in June. Our anniversary is in June: even if we are not moved in yet, we should be be able to celebrate our anniversary at the new house, whoo-hoo!</p><p><br /></p>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-12309705524318822962021-04-23T10:49:00.000-04:002021-04-23T10:49:21.532-04:00Week 12 Famous Last Words... 3 weeks to go!This week went really well! I prepared my talk for the OERxDomains conference, I'm honestly excited about it... I created randomized bingo cards! Plus I built a kind bingo generator that people can use to create their own cards with their own random words. When I was in college we used to make bingo cards for especially boring lectures, ha ha... and I'm still a believer in bingo as a way to pique people's curiosity and help them pay attention, even though of course I hope my talk won't be boring. The whole talk will be all about Storybooks over the years, and my goal is to inspire other teachers to think about how they might use websites in their classes. Here's a bingo card, and <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7Id7aHY82CVD2mhnD0pc3wT6bgV_lDlpDRzoj-DErA/edit#heading=h.x3w626ipdj4h">here's the generator</a>. :-)<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsM1H5pHbX2a_3LdVPQWFej8e0zQAZEvzl5_AWmCOcEtom7HOjGy6mBumoAaLjETbPShfrUJZaPeBidKoPO5aZSRny_G070kJ89sfPj0cUoIl0zsgEHAHefjmbyR725jQtTHnNEivuyyE/s1284/Screen+Shot+2021-04-17+at+4.08.03+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1272" data-original-width="1284" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsM1H5pHbX2a_3LdVPQWFej8e0zQAZEvzl5_AWmCOcEtom7HOjGy6mBumoAaLjETbPShfrUJZaPeBidKoPO5aZSRny_G070kJ89sfPj0cUoIl0zsgEHAHefjmbyR725jQtTHnNEivuyyE/w400-h396/Screen+Shot+2021-04-17+at+4.08.03+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And on Tuesday................. I get my second Pfizer shot! WHOO-HOO!</div><div><br /></div><div>Then the talk is on Wednesday, plus a follow-up <a href="http://virtuallyconnecting.org/blog/2021/04/16/missed-conversation-vconnecting-at-oer21xdomains-oer21/">VConnecting after the conference</a> too!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKL1R0DHTHZVBueUlmQsjG7HYMmsHa0V9JdpO9kbivTc5S5CIRJcPAEv4auHlGTe91NkJZoZrN47XeENVCu6OOr2F4qwRL14UBHDSB_c12r0eMykq_-DtVSUcmxYm20pHbY59-XOXPB0w/s678/oer21xdomains-VC-header-678x381.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="678" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKL1R0DHTHZVBueUlmQsjG7HYMmsHa0V9JdpO9kbivTc5S5CIRJcPAEv4auHlGTe91NkJZoZrN47XeENVCu6OOr2F4qwRL14UBHDSB_c12r0eMykq_-DtVSUcmxYm20pHbY59-XOXPB0w/w400-h225/oer21xdomains-VC-header-678x381.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And then it's just 19 days until the end of the semester (as of the time I'm writing this post), although I hope people will want to make a microfiction book together, and I'll probably be working on that during finals week. But anyway, the end is near, ha ha. And I am so excited about all the books I've got stacked up in heaps (heaps and heaps!) to read as soon as the semester is over. One of my latest discoveries is the writer and illustrator Ashley Bryan; I had bought a few of his books not even knowing who he was, and then I read his biography: what an amazing person! Here's his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Bryan">Wikipedia article</a>. And here's a website dedicated to his work: <a href="https://ashleybryancenter.org/">Ashley Bryan Center</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGufnmruBz8IiOebR-oNBaSADvbgqdJliZq-YuUte7zqkrEj9G-nliwBfzSi6lPs5nVFS8eIwIpmYYGb5_QAUepDa3pVMHbqriEmRXz4TDFasEUzF4H1jTkksT7lsKZQ6zgRCxJSDNyHI/s1529/Screenshot+2021-04-18+2.49.33+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1529" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGufnmruBz8IiOebR-oNBaSADvbgqdJliZq-YuUte7zqkrEj9G-nliwBfzSi6lPs5nVFS8eIwIpmYYGb5_QAUepDa3pVMHbqriEmRXz4TDFasEUzF4H1jTkksT7lsKZQ6zgRCxJSDNyHI/w400-h224/Screenshot+2021-04-18+2.49.33+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I'm also really excited about a book that I just learned about today; it's a new edition of <b><a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631497797">Apuleius's Golden Ass</a></b> edited by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer">Peter Singer</a></b>, the animal rights activist and philosopher, with an essay he's written for the book, plus illustrations. I had been thinking about doing a Tiny Tales versions of Apuleius, and seeing this book made me even more certain that I should try to do something like that.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRYTf0IHM4VKQa3KWRl5YDTi6JvlZjnSk-WBBFW-eLvFU2JKMeAk6wYCyK_PMQIc7jf_18bLUfuWSWSRP38GE68YzrdUFbbTFwNBpu8hVcZizAm14CO_07ULrl1ctzHbZE-MLcrRhGIdM/s639/Screenshot+2021-04-18+2.54.29+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRYTf0IHM4VKQa3KWRl5YDTi6JvlZjnSk-WBBFW-eLvFU2JKMeAk6wYCyK_PMQIc7jf_18bLUfuWSWSRP38GE68YzrdUFbbTFwNBpu8hVcZizAm14CO_07ULrl1ctzHbZE-MLcrRhGIdM/s16000/Screenshot+2021-04-18+2.54.29+PM.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-19769659411571833272021-04-18T14:59:00.001-04:002021-04-18T14:59:28.974-04:00Week 12 Story Lab: More Storybook ResearchI did some research already into the Spider (Gizzo) stories in two books by Arthur Tremearne, and now I am going to read through his <b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zYcMaiRKqQK-sPMfXa7eZHznKllpJXwR/view">50 Hausa folktales</a></b> series to see if there are any other stories there that I didn't catch already. A key feature here is that he gives credit to his sources! <div><br /></div><div><div>1 The Spider, the Hippopotamus, and the Elephant. SD: in book.</div><div>2 The Spider, the Hyena, and the Corn SD: in book.</div><div>3 The Malam, the Spider, and the Hyena SD: in book.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>4 How the Spider outwitted the Snake</b> BG. Spider paralyzes Snake so that he cannot bite Spider when he comes to collect a debt.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>5 The Snake and the Dove Outwit the Spider</b> BG. Spider fools Snake into thinking he is dead, but Dove tricks Spider into revealing himself.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>6 The Spider Has a Feast </b>BG. Great story about mock funeral where the goal is to startle the mourners so that they trample each other, and then Spider eats them.</div><div><br /></div><div>7 How the Spider Obtained a Feast M: in book.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>8 The Spider Outwitted by the Tortoise </b>BG. This shares a lot of motifs with the story about Hyena and Spider visiting the king, but with a more clear revenge plot and Tortoise triumphs in the end.</div><div><br /></div><div>9 The Spider and the Rubber Baby BG: in book (this also has the Half-Man).</div><div><br /></div><div><b>10 The Jackal's Revenge on the Spider</b> BG. Another good revenge story, this time with jackal triumphing in the end. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>11 The Lion, the Spider, and the Hyena </b>BG. Great story where Spider gets Hyena to take the blame for eating Lion's ram.</div><div><br /></div><div>12 The Cunning Spider and his Bride UG: in book.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>13 How Spiders Were Reproduced</b> BG. Great story where Spider tricks and kills Lamb, but Kid outwits him. In the end Spider is smashed so there are many Spiders.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>14 How the Woman Taught the Spider Cunning </b>SD. VERY COOL story about the quest for wisdom but with a lot of twists and surprises, and in the end the woman does not grant spider more cunning.</div><div><br /></div><div>32 The Boy who Refused to Walk M: in book.</div><div>50 The Lucky Youngest Son SD: in book.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>One of the characters in the Jackal's Revenge story is the francolin bird, which is a new character for me. It's a bird found in Africa and also Asia; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francolin">Wikipedia</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpoW5QcuNlel8It0Q5YKUIHydhuCZWCWl87E_rvYc5ydvJEnLgDwuLOB2fpqeCm8aVylybzrPLcUxJo-VAGvVZ_GO0CVwODViKi80tjtB-hxtKy_YCNhRK9y9R29olRC5xwONsbDR28ls/s504/Yellowneckedspurfowl250.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpoW5QcuNlel8It0Q5YKUIHydhuCZWCWl87E_rvYc5ydvJEnLgDwuLOB2fpqeCm8aVylybzrPLcUxJo-VAGvVZ_GO0CVwODViKi80tjtB-hxtKy_YCNhRK9y9R29olRC5xwONsbDR28ls/s16000/Yellowneckedspurfowl250.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yellowneckedspurfowl250.JPG">francolin</a></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-77168643092798576822021-04-10T22:59:00.001-04:002021-04-10T22:59:31.815-04:00Week 11 Famous Last Words... 4 weeks to goI just spaced out last week and forgot to do the Famous Last Words for Week 10... so here we are: Week 11, and that means just four weeks to go. I've got my little "retirement countdown clock," and it says just 27 days from now. There are always a lot of graduating seniors in these classes, and I feel kind of like a graduating senior this semester, ha ha, since retirement really feels like graduation, moving on to something new. <div><br /></div><div>Working on the <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2021/02/comment-wall-trickster-tales-from-africa.html">African Trickster Storybook</a></b> (I'm basically done!!!) has really helped me to keep refining my focus for this new career to come, and I think I will be spending the whole next year working on African folktales, using that as the whole foundation to build on as I go forward. Reading a book today by the German folklorist Sigrid Schmidt really inspired me today. She did exactly the same kind of work that I want to do, gathering lots (LOTS) of stories and just paying very careful attention to what the stories say and what they do. I found three more of her books in English (all the rest are in German), and those will be such a perfect way to get things going in May. I will have four of her books to work with when summer gets going and I am ready to plunge myself into a world of African stories:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrdeEWyHwrF2SgPDAzFAbAGQuzue0dvOc77trOJTwdwRUfv2pTx9Y6U4cU7tBnWJmlRZ4Q18sb_ZffzFODya_gHvtXLnbzg3uMUBJ53AS-K9rGyu8e1QmVJ3v62PKsDNG0pod0Yn0hho/s150/a.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrdeEWyHwrF2SgPDAzFAbAGQuzue0dvOc77trOJTwdwRUfv2pTx9Y6U4cU7tBnWJmlRZ4Q18sb_ZffzFODya_gHvtXLnbzg3uMUBJ53AS-K9rGyu8e1QmVJ3v62PKsDNG0pod0Yn0hho/s0/a.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk-cen2b8MjWF6Co_f-xhpGfusHhF1Svfk2hb1p6qvetYWHnU4LHgqfu8-apKi3Qa4UzrKrnaqP5Edql-qA8NuGXTfS98-ft7iBHTM2yhjW2P3_CjQvydvvzMSqsKeJQtUShcVtVz4ols/s150/b.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk-cen2b8MjWF6Co_f-xhpGfusHhF1Svfk2hb1p6qvetYWHnU4LHgqfu8-apKi3Qa4UzrKrnaqP5Edql-qA8NuGXTfS98-ft7iBHTM2yhjW2P3_CjQvydvvzMSqsKeJQtUShcVtVz4ols/s0/b.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypUoV_88KOsL2y_X8YI9eACXCfvYp3MEXkW3olFAiGPs5O2Tx59muOD6c7iOcfdRoty6VyBZc_8MnWFK7MzUSKd8fM7RjBUnw3f4iuAuTlZxNLjUJd7xPw-zpuvJIK8ATzPArRnNyLwc/s150/c.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypUoV_88KOsL2y_X8YI9eACXCfvYp3MEXkW3olFAiGPs5O2Tx59muOD6c7iOcfdRoty6VyBZc_8MnWFK7MzUSKd8fM7RjBUnw3f4iuAuTlZxNLjUJd7xPw-zpuvJIK8ATzPArRnNyLwc/s0/c.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilBkTeoWKgLln7NlG7Mk-UaIOBM89cHx7sYKf2smyvQbkOKx7WKtzrwHpmzKgOiogbcu-UNDtwGq-thkvgGoJC3rqTBJKc-MdKLT0N-l3Uyf_3H1RgviBNhY3Ma6dKz3uoq8xP4hCZkxc/s150/d.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilBkTeoWKgLln7NlG7Mk-UaIOBM89cHx7sYKf2smyvQbkOKx7WKtzrwHpmzKgOiogbcu-UNDtwGq-thkvgGoJC3rqTBJKc-MdKLT0N-l3Uyf_3H1RgviBNhY3Ma6dKz3uoq8xP4hCZkxc/s0/d.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>Tomorrow I'm going to spend the day working on getting ready for the DomainsxOER conference presentation that I have week after next. My idea is to play a game of bingo, and then there will be Latin "victory" badges for the winners, women and men... I created a <a href="http://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2021/04/testing-out-victory-badge.html">Latin randomizer</a> with 1000 different combinations, and Bryan Mathers is going to create a graphic for me to use in the badge; he's doing all the graphics for the conference, so I had written to ask him if that might be possible, and he said yes! I did a Zoom with him on Friday (that was so cool: he is in London, and it was so nice to actually talk with him in person), and I am excited to see what he will make. Maybe it will be ready when I do my last words next week! Here is Bryan's website: I am such a fan of all his work:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTG4fU9IOwbjtilKknGi6MsgxwnyVS8Zj9V5F_8vwA8m02zbckviafHhuXSK08C_SNob1q5CkWOoV8v8Uvz6lsNT9cK-yaTcP8f6drCn7Fl8b7sD9V500EunauCwwfv2mLFgTYvX4wLg/s400/Screenshot+2021-04-10+10.31.10+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="400" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTG4fU9IOwbjtilKknGi6MsgxwnyVS8Zj9V5F_8vwA8m02zbckviafHhuXSK08C_SNob1q5CkWOoV8v8Uvz6lsNT9cK-yaTcP8f6drCn7Fl8b7sD9V500EunauCwwfv2mLFgTYvX4wLg/w400-h272/Screenshot+2021-04-10+10.31.10+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://visualthinkery.com/">Visual Thinkery</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I went to the Domains conference in 2017 in Oklahoma City (that was actually the last time I was in Oklahoma), and then again in 2019 in Durham (just down the road from where I live, so that was so easy!)... I will really miss getting to see all my Domains friends in person for this conference, but I'm really excited about getting to do this keynote. I'll have more to say about that next week. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The full interactive online programme is now available for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OERxDomains21?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OERxDomains21</a> registered participants to view at <a href="https://t.co/m3mv08vhSf">https://t.co/m3mv08vhSf</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OER21?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OER21</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Domains21?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Domains21</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OERxDomains?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OERxDomains</a> <a href="https://t.co/9ecDvTsmf1">pic.twitter.com/9ecDvTsmf1</a></p>— OER Open Education Conference (@OERConf) <a href="https://twitter.com/OERConf/status/1380521051143221250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2021</a></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">But for now: it's Saturday night and I'm just going to veg out and watch TV. My husband and I have been on a Bogart-binge lately (inspired by watching the Ken Burns Hemingway documentary last week). Tonight it's Casablanca. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7vThuwa5RZU" title="YouTube video player" width="400"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-3269994680076035362021-04-10T16:07:00.000-04:002021-04-10T16:07:34.827-04:00Week 11: Project ResearchWell, here I am again doing more research to gear up for writing the Mantis stories for Week 12. I did some <a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2021/03/week-10-project-research-notes.html">research in Week 10</a> by reading Jenny Seed's The Bushman's Dream, along with an index to the contents of Bleek's book of Mantis stories. Those are both books by women... it feels really good to be working in a content area where some of the most important work has been done by women, and the book I am going to write about today is also be a woman: Sigrid Schmidt. This is the book I mentioned having ordered in that last post; the book arrived this week, and it is even more excellent than I had expected. So, I'm going to paste in the table of contents here, and then take some notes specifically for the stories I think I might want to try to tell as 100-word stories for the Storybook.<div><br /></div><div>From <i>South African |Xam Bushman Traditions and Their Relationships to Further Khoisan Folklore </i>by Sigrid Schmidt. This is <a href="https://www.namibiana.de/namibia-information/lexikon/begriff/sigrid-schmidt.html">the only picture</a> I could find of her online; her work is absolutely remarkable. She was born in 1930, and as near as I can tell, she is still alive. I feel very lucky that she publishes extensively in English.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfRopYPtXxr6jBL7sPVwHye8-ubucA3iDGBiFbRAPYLlJEMAiXthyphenhyphendENs0r00RErvh3GpUWfPhftQaEHMEjjV1UUFRiuNTt6970Ev98RnYgKg4M4tmAIbt6giHQdVPqx-PRZzm3jnQCQ/s594/Screen+Shot+2021-04-10+at+12.23.31+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="478" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfRopYPtXxr6jBL7sPVwHye8-ubucA3iDGBiFbRAPYLlJEMAiXthyphenhyphendENs0r00RErvh3GpUWfPhftQaEHMEjjV1UUFRiuNTt6970Ev98RnYgKg4M4tmAIbt6giHQdVPqx-PRZzm3jnQCQ/w322-h400/Screen+Shot+2021-04-10+at+12.23.31+PM.png" width="322" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Of the sections in Schmidt's book, the most interesting for me is the part she labels as "IKaggen the Fool," and I think I will draw all my stories from that part, which will also be a fun way to illustrate the idea of theme and variation, since all the stories share a similar framework; Schmidt's discussion of that framework is so helpful for looking at tricksters in general, and I am really glad to have acquired this book.</div><div><br /></div><div>The basic cycle is that Mantis goes out, does something audacious, and gets trounced. He then gets advice some someone (his son or another younger character), goes back and tries again and, victorious, brags that he actually knew how to do that all along. </div><div><br /></div><div>Schmidt also has some fascinating observations about mythical tricksters (of whom Mantis is certainly one) and more modern-day tricksters like the Jackal; for example, the mythical trickster stories are based on the trickster's actions, while the modern trickster stories often feature more dialogue because the modern trickster's power often resides in his use of language. When it comes to the mythical trickster-as-fool, Schmidt notes a kind of split between the story-trickster and the mythical trickster as a manifest power in the world: "They tell the tales of the old one without restraint, say his name aloud, howl and roll on the ground with laughter at his humiliations, whereas, when they speak of the great one, they whisper and avoid his name. yet they think that somehow in the rightness of things these two beings must be one, so one they are said to be." Schmidt notes that the Devil as medieval fool and the Devil as cosmic enemy can be seen as a similar development (I agree! very throught-provoking stuff). </div><div><br /></div><div>Schmidt lists all the variations on IKaggen the fool as "3b" in her index which is then subdivided as follows, with asterisks for the ones I think I will use:</div><div><div><br /></div><div><b>1 IKaggen and the Cat</b>. Since we don't know (?) what trick IKaggen used to defeat the cat, this story won't work, although I will check out the bibliographical references here later (Lewis-Williams sounds promising!) in order to see if we do perhaps know more about this story.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>**2 IKaggen and Eyes-on-his-Feet</b>. This is such a cool, weird story. It's in Seed's book, and I know I want to use this one. The man appears to be able to see but he has no eyes in his head. Mantis tries to deceive him (stealing the best meat in one version), but the man sees him and beats him. Then son-in-law Kwammanga-a (whom I guess I'll call Rainbow-Man) tells him the man has eyes between his big toe and the next toe, so Mantis should throw dust at the man's feet, and then he can win. "I let you beat me up just to see what you were capable of," he claims. There is also the motif of his possessions flying home separately, but I'll try to include that in another story; there aren't any tools or other possessions that are relevant here. Perhaps a connection here between sinister ogre who lures people at night with a big fire, and he then fries and eats them: Eyes-on-his-Feet becomes name for this ogre.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>3 IKaggen and the Meerkats (Suricates)</b>. This story goes better with the story of Mantis the creator, so I'm not going to try to use the trickster part here.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>*</b><b>4 IKaggen and the Ticks</b>. I really like this one! The version in Seed's book has the more mystical and epic ending, but there is also a more basic trickster version. Mantis went to steal sheep from the Tick people, but the Ticks saw him coming and hid in the wool. When he stole a sheep, the jumped out and beat him. He grabbed some feathers and flew away. Rainbow (or Ichnuemon) told him to avoid the Ticks, but if he really insisted on stealing from them, there is a trick for taking the sheep. This version does not say what the trick is! In the mystical version, Mantis then has a dream: he dreams that all the sheep come. In the morning, all the things were there, as he had dreamed. I could use this story as the final one, moving in the direction of Mantis not just as fool but as supernatural being.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>5 iKwammang-a Visited "the Other One"</b>. This is a weird one, and the woman antagonist is a human character apparently, not an animl, so I'll skip this one.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>*</b><b>6 IKaggen and Cagn</b>. These are Maluti Bushman tales (Cagn is Mantis's name). </div><div><b><i>a Cagn and the Eagle</i></b>. In this one Mantis transforms into a bull eland.</div><div><b><i>b Cagn, the Cagn-cagn and the Ants</i></b>. This one is pretty cool because Cagn actually gets killed and eaten and son Cogaz must restore him from bones; then he gives advice about how to defeat the dwarves (are they ants?). </div><div><b><i>c Cagn and the "Thing" in the River</i></b>. This is the best one, and there is a IXam tale where it is a tortoise in the river, so I could tel lthis one using the tortoise.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>**</b><b>7 IKaggen and Mother Proteles</b>. This is a great one where Rainbow goes to visit Aardwolf, but Mantis is not supposed to come. Mantis sneaks along, and sees Mother Aardwolf gives Rainbow a young aardwolf to eat. Mantis is greedy, comes back, asks for another; she holds one out, but then grabs him and throws him into the fire. He flew away into the water to save himself. Rainbow then explains to Mantis that this is what she does to those who are greedy. She is a Guardian of Nature. Mantis himself can act as Guardian of Nature with regard to the eland, but here it is a female Guardian. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEzau5ywmvft4GIsv_N61t9wrAOCwW6NGrDrmifpAFLddQfQ1D0AdKZ-gpFLnFwlE4pHZotnTk5eRhHCsIpzQh1pX7C93yWjy-INDMuT0GOWOGZJeQiia9x_j1jj3bCbpsdPdDmy6y1wI/s600/aardwolf-proteles-cristata-20121712.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEzau5ywmvft4GIsv_N61t9wrAOCwW6NGrDrmifpAFLddQfQ1D0AdKZ-gpFLnFwlE4pHZotnTk5eRhHCsIpzQh1pX7C93yWjy-INDMuT0GOWOGZJeQiia9x_j1jj3bCbpsdPdDmy6y1wI/w400-h225/aardwolf-proteles-cristata-20121712.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.mediastorehouse.co.uk/auscape/photographer-galleries/joe-mcdonald/aardwolf-proteles-cristata-20121712.html">proteles / aardwolf</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>**</b><b>8 iKaggen and the Magic Bird</b>. This is another one about greed. This magic bird is like an ostrich. Mantis shot her, but arrow bounced off. She agreed to let him have one egg, but he took all. Then the egg stuck to his mouth and the net stuck to his back, and his drinking brush (they use animal-hair brushes to drink instead of cups). Ichneumon gradnson explained that he can take one egg only. Mantis went back without everything stuck to his body. Everything dropped off his body, and he took the one egg allowed.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>**</b><b>9 IKaggen and the Korotwiten Bird</b>. This bird (perhaps the formicovora, ant-wren?) taught Mantis to dive into holes and get out ant larvae without digging. He annointed Mantis with sweat which gave him this power. Then Mantis threw away all his tools because he thought he would not need them. But Mantis refused to share with the bird as they had greed. Then the bird made the ground hard so Mantis broke his head when he tried to get the ant larvae. This one is in Seed's book also.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>10 IKaggen and Ku-te-gaua</b>. Another imitation story, this time about jumping through a fire to seize wildcat skins. Very similar to the preceding story, but instead of breaking his head, Mantis gets burned.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>11 A Visit to the Lions' House</b>. Rainbow and Ichneumon go to visit the lions; they don't want to take Mantis, but he hides in a bag. He flew home and said son-in-law and grandson eaten by lions, but they came home with meat and were very angry at Mantis for his bad behavior. </div><div><b><i>a Child Notices Eye of Person Hidden in Bag/Bundle</i></b>. </div><div><b><i>b iKaggen's Magic Flight</i></b>. </div><div>Schmidt explores these components of the story in great detail with lots of parallels from other African folktales. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>12 IKaggen and iKwammang-a Visited the Bees</b>. Complex story with lots of characters; this is the one that culminates with stones rolling down so that Mantis was badly hurt (very nice version of this one in Seed's book). Too many characters involved for my purposes.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-25173175048825843412021-04-10T12:17:00.001-04:002021-04-10T12:17:24.011-04:00Week 10 Project research notes: Mantis/IkaggenWell, I just have to say WOW about this. I had always known there was a mantis trickster among the San people (Bushman people)... but this project is my first time to work with these materials, and I am totally blown away. This mantis is definitely a trickster, but his stories take place in a world that is NOT our world (yet), and that gives it all such a different feeling.<div><br /></div><div>I'm thinking I want to do Mantis and the Elephants, and then maybe Mantis and Korotwiten. Those are more self-contained as stories... but the other cycles are so powerful! Anyway, here are my notes and resources for when I get ready to add the Mantis page in Week 11.<br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilKJpnIGMBcJujf4GQrGo2GEqAnz9PnuV35t2fiNU-GnVBtNNCfX6S40-LPewOKUP0U7jGOtADLZVxCfVu9WR9jH7o7ecLg-BRnWocwDs9Q8laIfUkQwbaW8LrFm1_0IeZByQBkVUEJPI/s601/30161119547.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilKJpnIGMBcJujf4GQrGo2GEqAnz9PnuV35t2fiNU-GnVBtNNCfX6S40-LPewOKUP0U7jGOtADLZVxCfVu9WR9jH7o7ecLg-BRnWocwDs9Q8laIfUkQwbaW8LrFm1_0IeZByQBkVUEJPI/s16000/30161119547.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Very glad I discovered this book by Jenny Seed: The Bushman's Dream: African Tales of the Creation, published in 1974. It takes the main line of Mantis stories and connects them in a continuous narrative. Each chapter focuses on a specific Mantis story, but there's also an arc from start to finish as the Mantis more and more clearly perceives what is happening: the First People, like Mantis and his family, and the other people like the Tick People, Frog, and so on, are becoming animals. Then we come, the Next People, and we share our world with these animals who were once people. She doesn't give the chapters titles, so I've provided titles here for future reference:</div><div><b>Chapter 1</b> (p. 4): Introduction: we meet Mantis and he goes off into the wilderness with his springbok.</div><div><div><b>Chapter 2</b> (p. 12): Elephant People steal the springbok; his one is amazing: I love how Mantis escapes through the trunk.</div><div><div><b>Chapter 3 </b>(p. 20): Korotwiten Bird teaches Mantis how to hunt ants but Mantis gets greedy. (This is also a great story about trickster greed and recklessness.)</div><div><div><b>Chapter 4 </b>(p. 30): Blue Crane protects the Tortoise from Foulmouth the Ogre. (She is Mantis's sister, and this story is not really about Mantis but about her heroism.)</div><div><div><b>Chapter 5</b> (p. 38): Manti smakes an eland from Kwammanga's shoe (Rainbow Man, who is his son-in-law). The people kill the eland for meat. Angry, Mantis tells the sun not to shine. Then Mantis regrets the darkness, and makes the moon.</div><div><div><b>Chapter 6 </b>(p. 50): Mantis confronts Old Smooth Head, who has eyes in his toes.</div><div><div><b>Chapter 7</b> (p. 58): Mantis offends the Bee People and Rock Rabbit People with his bad behavior; Kwammanga is well behaved. There is a rockfall, and the hosts protect Kwammanga, but Mantis gets hurt. </div><div><div><b>Chapter 8</b> (p. 68): The Baboon People kill Mantis's son. Mantis fights the Baboons and brings his son back to life. </div><div><div><b>Chapter 9</b> (p. 80): Frog Man and Frog Woman quarrel. Frog Man goes away and becomes a frog. Looking for Frog Man, Blue Crane becomes a crane.</div><div><div><b>Chapter 10</b> (p. 88): Mantis tries to steal food from the Tick People. They beat Mantis, but he uses his magic to take their sheep and their houses; they become ticks. </div><div><div><b>Chapter 11</b> (p. 100): Mantis gets sick from eating too much sheep and decides to invite the All-Devourer, the father of his foster-daughter Porcupine to come eat with them. Everyone warns him not to do this, and it is a disaster: All-Devourer eats everything. He even eats Mantis and Kwammanga.</div><div><div><b>Chapter 12 </b>(p. 112): Young Mantis and Young Kwammanga (his other son, not the Mongoose) battle the All-Devourer; everything comes back out that All-Devourer had eaten. Then Mantis says it is time to go away, and he becomes a mantis. </div><div><br /></div></div></div><div>These stories are all so good; I don't know how I will choose what to include in the Storybook! Here are links to the materials in <a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001287035">Mantis and his Friends</a>, which is one of the books online:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=17">Mantis Makes an Eland</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=27">Mantis Gives the Bucks their Colors</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=27">Hartebeest and Eland</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=29">Mantis and Will-o-the-Wisp</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=31">The Lion's House</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=35">Mantis and Cat</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=37">Mantis and Proteles</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=39">Foulmouth, Blue Crane, and the Girls</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=43">Blue Crane's Story</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=45">Mantis and the Magic Bird</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=47">Mantis Takes Away the Ticks' Sheep</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=51">Mantis and the All-Devourer</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=57">Mantis and the Elephants</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=61">The Kwai-Kwai, Mantis, and the Children</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=63">Dasse and Crow</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=67">Mantis and Korotwiten</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=71">Ku-te-gaua and Mantis</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=75">Why Wildebeest Has a Light Tail</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=77">Lizard, Mice, and Mantis</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=81">Striped Mouse and Beetle</a><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008273248&view=2up&seq=83">Colors in the Rainbow</a><br />
</div><div><br /></div><div>These stories are a more reader-friendly presentation of materials in <a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924029904830">Specimens of Bushman Folklore</a> (see also this <a href="https://freebookapalooza.blogspot.com/2016/06/bleek-lloyd-bushman-folklore.html">table of contents</a>).</div><div><br /></div><div>I also found this amazing archive of their work: <a href="http://lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za/">Bleek and Lloyd Archive</a>, including scans of the artwork, <a href="http://lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za/stow/STOW_126.html">like this</a>: <i>These are sorcery’s things. I think that one man, to the right of the spectator, having killed a hartebeest, becomes like it with his companions. The Mantis is going with them. The others had helped him. They become Mantises. The Mantis is not there.’ The Mantis was the protector of the bucks, particularly of the eland and the hartebeest; the latter was said to resemble him, as its horns turn back like his antennae. Bushmen say, ‘The Mantis is used to go with the hartebeest when he walks about.’</i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5lXK3suG-isjr8OkOlYKshsikZ6vCiURniLXoLuj8nAICyj3wph3tX1zMuhBJL9XKGO_gxrSu1I7raOvD4fgYvwOnb3ivsUlVsb8cmDxJRexb6KFtOFIGh6W5ifBGnb6z_OPhqifc2VA/s1065/STOW_126.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="1065" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5lXK3suG-isjr8OkOlYKshsikZ6vCiURniLXoLuj8nAICyj3wph3tX1zMuhBJL9XKGO_gxrSu1I7raOvD4fgYvwOnb3ivsUlVsb8cmDxJRexb6KFtOFIGh6W5ifBGnb6z_OPhqifc2VA/w400-h294/STOW_126.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Plus, I splurged (really splurged) and ordered a very expensive new book from a German publisher which covers both the material in the books and in the archive; I've pasted in the table of contents below (it covers all the story cycles; these are just screenshots of the Mantis materials):</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xi7Sy2I24SfKMPnJceOEx7mi06VouS9rC5HnhO4wnNFVAyDT-1WLd5xH2jDEym0pRfdrszXLzLStFvka9yXedY8vNOdSKKZzsGlHOjMp06LfRwzV7kdBTHKQPyE4U0rHgkWsoJGObLQ/s1264/Screen+Shot+2021-03-21+at+12.11.02+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="1264" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xi7Sy2I24SfKMPnJceOEx7mi06VouS9rC5HnhO4wnNFVAyDT-1WLd5xH2jDEym0pRfdrszXLzLStFvka9yXedY8vNOdSKKZzsGlHOjMp06LfRwzV7kdBTHKQPyE4U0rHgkWsoJGObLQ/w400-h217/Screen+Shot+2021-03-21+at+12.11.02+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59x21BYoe0F9BOqSPzPtf_on6u1S_YZOMlhVgbNBAKiXji7fXs5br4EgKVFtHq180EuWx_dxY4r2U1mMxl4odoG1gWQxF3xlYKYedSYB18gVRlzvEgFMTYolMUKoJzgAH8vmQwAWydg0/s1248/Screen+Shot+2021-03-21+at+12.11.13+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="1248" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59x21BYoe0F9BOqSPzPtf_on6u1S_YZOMlhVgbNBAKiXji7fXs5br4EgKVFtHq180EuWx_dxY4r2U1mMxl4odoG1gWQxF3xlYKYedSYB18gVRlzvEgFMTYolMUKoJzgAH8vmQwAWydg0/w400-h335/Screen+Shot+2021-03-21+at+12.11.13+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-77559628429970831822021-04-10T12:17:00.000-04:002021-04-10T12:17:11.870-04:00Week 10 Story: Rabbit and Terrapin, Two Tricksters<div><i style="font-weight: bold;">Author's Note</i>. The African American folktales collected by Joel Chandler Harris in the late 19th century are one of our most important sources for African folktales told in the United States, specifically in Georgia, where Harris collected stories from former slaves. Although slave owners did their best to eradicate African cultural traditions among the slaves, the stories persisted. Stories from many different African cultures came together in new ways, and there was also back-and-forth sharing of stories with Native American storytellers. The trickster "Brer Rabbit" is the main character in the stories Harris collected, but the trickster "Brer Terrapin" (turtle) also appears in many stories; the word terrapin is itself a Native American name for the turtle (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terrapin">Wiktionary</a>). For this experiment, I decided to look at the stories that features both Rabbit and Turtle to see what happens. Most of the time, they cooperate! Although in one famous story, they compete. Here are some of those stories told in 100 words.</div><div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Turtle in the Sack</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Fox caught Turtle and put him in a sack. "Turtle-soup for supper tonight!" he sang.</div><div>Turtle kicked and squirmed. "Turn me loose!" he shouted.</div><div>Rabbit ran up. "Folks are raiding your watermelon-patch!" he told Fox. "I'll hold that sack. Run quick!"</div><div>Fox ran off, and Rabbit let Turtle out. Then Rabbit fetched a hornet-nest and put it inside the sack.</div><div>Rabbit and Turtle waited near Fox's house. Finally Fox arrived, toting the sack. "Rabbit thought he'd fool me, but I've still got Turtle." Then Fox opened the sack and the furious hornets bit Fox all over.</div><div>Rabbit and Turtle laughed.</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc3VOygkrcp2cUQ6PwKun0W98RbA3AVSo1Ix3JTvKhB38Jp0Lm5sKtf_XGWas8SHxCtYPigAMFoEI2iIFLeABR4sl28kBKDONhCXk5f3FCYO0zEgdxw43w23QENmcqQVm4HhFb2Zat61E/s1600/FoxRabbit_125.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; color: #7d1752; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Moon in the Mill-Pond</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Rabbit and Turtle decided to have some fun.</div><div>"Let's go fishing!" they said to Bear, Wolf, and Fox. "Meet us at the mill-pond tonight."</div><div>When everyone had arrived, Rabbit yelled, "Moon's in the water! Let's rescue her!"</div><div>"She carries a pot of gold," shouted Turtle. "We'll rescue Moon and get the gold!"</div><div>Bear rushed forward. "I'll go!" he said, plunging into the water.</div><div>"No, me first!" yelled Wolf, and Fox jumped in too.</div><div>Rabbit and Turtle stood on the bank and laughed at Bear, Wolf, and Fox all pushing each other under the water, trying to grab the Moon's reflection.</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUH0mXoCviQWXaCpo-LHFEUcTsSnD6g80KKb7KwqViju4CW3k52zFVpEVWWwFEerhKRGu09o5-w0kTunqNjksHQEgBPSoFLrfOUVYuuPKEgXLGv94XUBy3Edt-eGve44SfT2nTuB7nHbU/s1600/FoxRabbit_043.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; color: #7d1752; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Wolf under the Rock</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Rabbit heard someone shouting.</div><div>It was Wolf, trapped under a rock. "Help!"</div><div>"If I help you," said Rabbit, "you'll eat me."</div><div>"No, I swear!" said Wolf.</div><div>Rabbit helped roll the rock away.</div><div>Then Wolf grabbed Rabbit. "Now I'll eat you!"</div><div>"But you promised!" Rabbit shrieked. </div><div>Turtle heard the ruckus. "What's going on?"</div><div>Rabbit explained.</div><div>"I don't understand," said Turtle.</div><div>Wolf explained.</div><div>"I still don't understand," said Turtle. "Show me!"</div><div>"I was under this rock..." said Wolf, getting under the rock.</div><div>"NOW!" He and Rabbit slammed the rock down, killing Wolf.</div><div>"Best be more careful next time Rabbit," said Turtle, laughing.</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-i8s4pOQ5AF7vDIX01Bn1FGcW-k939YNmYGIeg1VL0rEtyq_ky7Lz-7bWkfYg8MrCHZDFDCcqSGVhfw7dqJZ1su0ry6mvq54m9DODip3zSc8bdD6SptiP8-iY2YeA6guDukdCNBh1Yis/s1600/nightswithuncler00harr_0_0363.jpg" style="color: #7d1752; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-i8s4pOQ5AF7vDIX01Bn1FGcW-k939YNmYGIeg1VL0rEtyq_ky7Lz-7bWkfYg8MrCHZDFDCcqSGVhfw7dqJZ1su0ry6mvq54m9DODip3zSc8bdD6SptiP8-iY2YeA6guDukdCNBh1Yis/s1600/nightswithuncler00harr_0_0363.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Rabbit Races Turtle</i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><div>"You're smart," Rabbit said, "but I'm fast!"</div><div>"I'm faster than you!" shouted Turtle. "Let's race! You take the road, I'll take the roadside."</div><div>They marked out a five-mile race. "One-two-three-GO!" said Buzzard, who was the judge.</div><div>Rabbit ran a mile. Turtle popped his head out of the bushes. "Best hurry, Rabbit!" he said.</div><div>Two miles. Three miles. Four miles. Turtle popped out in front every time!</div><div>Rabbit dashed to the finish-line, but Turtle was already there, doing his victory dance.</div><div>Rabbit never figured out those were Turtle's brothers and sisters. To Rabbit, they all looked alike.</div><div>Turtle won without running!</div></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSJBmwy6zhwBHetcPzkRIktcyEsuHjiIws74Iap4W0IKLrYz_3mreXwrXnIOrOtws0aDwNHfIxjHHzjeYIHVHGnPwJBoyDzTVP67I_jJjcSFX8wI_NnI23aJrT_4ZmLsbOU_HfHggdG1Q/s1600/033.jpeg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; color: #7d1752; font-family: Tinos; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: start;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div><b style="font-style: italic;">Additional Notes. </b>Harris's versions are long and full of all kinds of charming detail; I had to leave all that out when creating these tiny versions. In the story of Rabbit rescuing Turtle, for example, Rabbit gets the hornets all riled up by banging the sack against a rock a few times. In the story about going fishing, Turtle and Rabbit make sure "Miss Meadows and the gals" are watching, so that Wolf, Bear, and Fox are humiliated in front of the ladies, and the same is true in the story of the race, where Turtle humiliates Rabbit in front of the gals. The story of the wolf under the rock comes originally from India; you may remember the Indian version of the story with jackal as the trickster: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mythfolkloreanthology/tricksters">Tiger, Brahman, and Jackal</a>. You probably also know the famous Aesop's fable about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare">the Tortoise and the Hare</a>; I like the idea that maybe that Tortoise was a trickster too, and even Aesop was fooled! :-)</div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><i>Bibliography</i></b>. You can read Harris's stories online here:</div><div><a href="https://olebrerrabbit.blogspot.com/search/label/Chase104">Brother Rabbit Rescues Brother Terrapin</a>.</div><div><a href="https://olebrerrabbit.blogspot.com/search/label/Chase053">The Moon In the Mill-Pond</a>.</div><div><a href="https://olebrerrabbit.blogspot.com/search/label/Chase080">Brother Wolf Still in Trouble</a>.</div><div><a href="https://olebrerrabbit.blogspot.com/search/label/Chase018">Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match at Last</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>Image credits</b>.</i></div><div><a href="https://olebrerrabbit.blogspot.com/search/label/Chase104">Fox and the hornets</a>.</div></div><div><a href="https://olebrerrabbit.blogspot.com/search/label/Chase053">The moon in the water</a>.</div><div><a href="https://olebrerrabbit.blogspot.com/search/label/Chase080">Rabbit and Turtle, Wolf under the rock.</a></div><div><a href="https://olebrerrabbit.blogspot.com/search/label/Chase018">Turtle wins the race.</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-52745070621778364582021-03-21T13:26:00.003-04:002021-03-21T13:26:51.435-04:00Week 9 Famous Last Words: Walgreens Vaccine!So my big news is something that hasn't even happened yet, but is happening on Tuesday: I finally got an appointment for a vaccination (first shot) at Walgreens. My eligibility window here opened on Wednesday and I was banging away at their website day and night trying to get an appointment, and finally, just before shutting down for the night last night, I landed an appointment: March 23, and then April 20. I'm a little worried because that April 20 is the day before my OERxDomains keynote, so I hope I don't get sick with side effects as some people have... but even so, it's worth: I took the appointment slot without even hesitating. My husband has had both shots already (he's over 70), and our best friends here (also both over 70), have had their shots so I am the one who has been holding us back from getting into our routine of cooking together every week....... we haven't done that for over a year now, which just feels impossibly strange. But by the time May 7 rolls around, I'll be two weeks after my second shot, which means immunized, so we can have a big party for the end of the semester, my retirement, and life-back-to-more-or-less-normal for us at least, even though we won't be going out yet. Still, just being able to get together again like we used to is going to feel so good. <div><br /></div><div>I also made good progress on my Storybook with a TON of research on the San (Bushman) trickster who is Mantis, or Ikaggen. I'm now obsessed with this storytelling tradition, in fact, so I ordered some more books to read. I'm not sure these stories will lend themselves so well to being "tiny tales"... but that's okay: I still want to read and learn all I can about African storytelling traditions, and this is an absolutely beautiful tradition, and with gorgeous art also; this is from the <a href="http://lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za/stow/STOW_011.html">Bleek-Lloyd Archive</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCvMBShmJlZtZxLDzuxQt6Vd96Wj-ORIomuGbWD42ljec8_C_q7-aA7pt6nPXvTBLVO6qCU4Fri0CW8bHwnK7tHgZ0aLrN5TC56FufDaaF-yFRHJGEJBKSShSRd4q8XP74PULlWAZiEVY/s1306/STOW_011.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="1306" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCvMBShmJlZtZxLDzuxQt6Vd96Wj-ORIomuGbWD42ljec8_C_q7-aA7pt6nPXvTBLVO6qCU4Fri0CW8bHwnK7tHgZ0aLrN5TC56FufDaaF-yFRHJGEJBKSShSRd4q8XP74PULlWAZiEVY/w400-h283/STOW_011.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And since it's March 21 today, that means it is exactly one month until the keynote... I need to start working on that now since rushing it at the last minute would not be a good idea: I really want to do a good job with this, not just with the keynote but also some digital materials to go with it.</div><div><br /></div><div>But now........ it's SPRING. And it's even sort of warm outside, and it's definitely sunny. So I'm going to go walk and listen to music and think about the fact that I'm getting vaccinated next week................. I still can't believe I managed to snag that appointment at last, and I am so happy about that!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-59103420391265593052021-03-13T17:28:00.002-05:002021-03-21T13:27:09.739-04:00Week 8 Famous Last Words: Spider Stories!I do my work for the class on the weekend, and I was really excited for this weekend because I was going to start working on the Spider stories for my Storybook. I used one of the stories from the West African unit to actually do some writing (<a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2021/03/week-9-story-adventures-of-anansi.html">how the stories all became Anansi-stories</a>!), and I started taking <a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2021/03/week-8-project-storybook-research-hausa.html">notes on other Spider stories</a> I could use as sources. I focused on the Hausa stories published by Tremearne, and I also came across his obituary while I was doing research: he died fighting in the British army during World War I. Here is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_John_Newman_Tremearne.jpg">photo</a> of him in uniform: <div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj6pBsakMkiVgJ_zS0JA_L1bUHyG0Esg9XU498Y0PQkvV-bykpnhFb2yjAKc6roMwQ1O3GWpWrbVNByI5oUnDXjDnNOdzMJRSSx7y8pFhayys_Qrp7VUyejx3-mf2mbgeYBXdcYh63jSc/s275/Arthur_John_Newman_Tremearne.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj6pBsakMkiVgJ_zS0JA_L1bUHyG0Esg9XU498Y0PQkvV-bykpnhFb2yjAKc6roMwQ1O3GWpWrbVNByI5oUnDXjDnNOdzMJRSSx7y8pFhayys_Qrp7VUyejx3-mf2mbgeYBXdcYh63jSc/s16000/Arthur_John_Newman_Tremearne.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I had no idea... He was only 38 years old, but he did so much work and published so many books just in that short time. That is very sobering for me to see; when I was 38, I was just beginning to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. So, knowing that about him, I feel even more grateful for the books that he published, and I am glad I will be using his Spider stories for my project. I am sure if he could have known someone would be using his work 100 years later, he would have been pleased. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm trying to get ahead on my work as a student in this class because there is a big crunch-week coming up, and I might not be able to do any student-work next weekend. So, I might try to add a page to my Storybook tomorrow too, but it's not due until March 28, so that will work out either way. Since I can't use Canvas to keep track of my progress like a regular student, I have a spreadsheet, which is actually so much better because i can color-code things and sort them and make my plan... and based on my current plan, this is all I have as the semester starts to wind down:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjylst9Z05QDrcMlBm3LfqXyF0Ws2Xza9K2TwFejAvvLdwYaWb7_oH5oAJFJ2PxDeicMna2ej0MZDad7QoHekS6gE3soCWYUeNLD4_lkbot0RLG98oGfBt_M4L_S7k7hFz56tk4AqO1nc/s874/Screen+Shot+2021-03-13+at+5.15.47+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="874" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjylst9Z05QDrcMlBm3LfqXyF0Ws2Xza9K2TwFejAvvLdwYaWb7_oH5oAJFJ2PxDeicMna2ej0MZDad7QoHekS6gE3soCWYUeNLD4_lkbot0RLG98oGfBt_M4L_S7k7hFz56tk4AqO1nc/w400-h371/Screen+Shot+2021-03-13+at+5.15.47+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And my countdown-to-retirement clock now says 55 days. That feels really weird, but also good to be honest: I am so ready to totally immerse myself in African folktales for the whole summer AND for the fall and beyond to see what I can learn. Before, I always had to limit the scope of any project to the weeks I had off during the summer. But now...... I can think BIG. And my ambitions for learning about African folktales are very big. I am really glad that I have this Storybook project to help organize some of my thoughts and get ready for the story adventures to come.<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-53815890522656367662021-03-13T16:39:00.005-05:002021-03-13T16:40:30.198-05:00Week 9 Story: The Adventures of AnansiFor this story, I took the story of Anansi and God and turned it into three short 100-word stories. "Anansi" means "Spider" in the <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ananse#Akan">Akan language</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_language">Ghana</a>, which is where this story comes from. Anansi is also famous in Jamaica and throughout the Caribbean because storytellers from Ghana and other west African cultures, kidnapped as slaves and taken to the Americas, brought their stories with them. You can read some microfiction Anansi stories from the Caribbean here: <a href="http://Anansi.LauraGibbs.net">Tiny Tales of Anansi</a>. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>God and Anansi Make a Bargain</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>"I want all stories to be Anansi-stories!" Anansi shouted.</div><div>"Agreed," said God, "provided you bring me Bees in a calabash, alive, and Snake, and also Leopard."</div><div>Anansi grabbed a calabash and went to where the Bees lived. He sat on the ground, shaking his head. "Yes!" he shouted. "No? Yes! No?"</div><div>"What's wrong?" they asked him.</div><div>"God says no, you cannot all fit into this calabash," said Anansi, "but I say yes, you can!"</div><div>"Yes!" buzzed the Bees. "Yes, we can!" Then they flew into the calabash.</div><div>Anansi sealed the calabash and brought it to God.</div><div>"Now Snake!" said God.</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXJ2qM4ZYg5OAVcKf9oIK7cpG1loVfMjdctivW6HffK1bzoKvOTxIBVUpnEOPYkuGvx_Ij65gI2_gmg3QNl7VH3tWtTl1YzHcfLdj8HYg_0Dex04ZJNny7sKGxhuthfxkcDyjXrDiyjq8/s533/calabash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXJ2qM4ZYg5OAVcKf9oIK7cpG1loVfMjdctivW6HffK1bzoKvOTxIBVUpnEOPYkuGvx_Ij65gI2_gmg3QNl7VH3tWtTl1YzHcfLdj8HYg_0Dex04ZJNny7sKGxhuthfxkcDyjXrDiyjq8/s16000/calabash.jpg" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyphenhyphen72oRvq5cgKP4CtqhOYXGFxzSaqoBzNwbZM4hJ0hPHkGB-5bpTJJUogEiOzRG-WvDx3F-yc0qA-8hD1KMF4D4pbl9tzkQA5XpTW9TzJmxk_tHd3lXL3EXEwe1LpgryYnAm5-xjfLqlI/s1280/snake-1937092_1280.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="1280" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyphenhyphen72oRvq5cgKP4CtqhOYXGFxzSaqoBzNwbZM4hJ0hPHkGB-5bpTJJUogEiOzRG-WvDx3F-yc0qA-8hD1KMF4D4pbl9tzkQA5XpTW9TzJmxk_tHd3lXL3EXEwe1LpgryYnAm5-xjfLqlI/w400-h184/snake-1937092_1280.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Anansi and Snake</i></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Anansi grabbed a long stick and sat down outside Snake's hole, muttering loudly. "He is! Or maybe he isn't? He is! Or maybe not?"</div><div>Snake slithered out of his hole and asked, "What'sssss wrong, Ananssssssssi?"</div><div>"God says you are not as long as this stick," Anansi replied, "but I say you are."</div><div>"Of coursssssse I am asssss long as that sssssstick," said Snake. "I'll prove it!"</div><div>Snake wiggled along the stick. Then Anansi grabbed Snake's head and tied it to the stick, and also his tail.</div><div>Laughing, Anansi ran back to God and gave him Snake.</div><div>"Now Leopard!" said God. </div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SXqslqbnOJPYflsEygx1qFr2ZxOJpBHiNXF8Xjy63Rb71mylgKtxw0uPl5VoSD6Ql_Bq86qAUW7KTIlRtTAifHo7YiBJGTNjztfl-vcaQ9AkEC-h0Ecp7j7oOZhDLRnwyL8Pb2lXpBE/s533/Leopard_africa.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SXqslqbnOJPYflsEygx1qFr2ZxOJpBHiNXF8Xjy63Rb71mylgKtxw0uPl5VoSD6Ql_Bq86qAUW7KTIlRtTAifHo7YiBJGTNjztfl-vcaQ9AkEC-h0Ecp7j7oOZhDLRnwyL8Pb2lXpBE/s16000/Leopard_africa.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Anansi and Leopard</i></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Anansi prepared a big cage. Then he sewed his eye shut and went to Leopard's den, singing and laughing.</div><div>"Why are you so happy?" asked Leopard.</div><div>"I sewed my eye shut," said Anansi, "and now I see the most beautiful things. It's magic!"</div><div>"Sew my eye shut too!" roared Leopard. "I want to see the beautiful things!"</div><div>Anansi sewed one of Leopard's eyes shut.</div><div>"It's not working," Leopard growled.</div><div>"I'll sew the other eye," said Anansi.</div><div>Now Leopard couldn't see anything. Anansi easily trapped him in the cage and took him to God.</div><div>That's how all the stories became Anansi-stories!</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><br /></div></div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><i>Author's Notes</i>. This quest is one of the most famous African trickster story types. Brer Rabbit goes on a similar quest: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/brerrabbitf19/the-witch-rabbit">Brer Rabbit's Smarts</a>. Sometimes the quest is for stories, like here, or for wisdom, or for a bride, etc.</div><div><br /></div><div>I added the part about Anansi sewing one eye first and then the other eye based on a similar story about Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit: <a href="https://microfables.blogspot.com/2021/01/rabbits-eyeball-candy.html">Rabbit's Eyeball Candy</a>. In the original story, Anansi gets "Tiger" to sew his eyes shut, but there are no tigers in Ghana; the word "Tiger" is used to refer to a big cat, kind of like the way "lion" is used in the phrsae "mountain lion" in English. One of the big cats of Ghana is the leopard, so I used Leopard for this story.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Bibliography</i>. "<a href="http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/west-africa-how-we-got-name-spider-tales.html">How We Got the Name Spider Tales</a>" in West African Folktales by William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Image sources</i>.</div><div><a href="https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1612074">Calabash</a>. </div><div><a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/snake-python-ball-python-1937092/">Python</a>.</div><div><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leopard_africa.jpg">Leopard.</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Here is an illustration by Cecilia Sinclair in the book; this depicts Anansi as a man. In the stories, Anansi has a shifting identity: sometimes a god, sometimes a spider, sometimes a man, and sometimes a mixture that is hard to define. This shows Anansi tricking the bees into getting into the jar:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhohuFPJPMbQY4sKqIpjckK3wJPPbZBlOr76YfjdPMtEowDLiv6cc__wTTW0yyT105VJ4bdsjE9ag17Vr7KVvUxqjKL2IhgPpzRErdKztO7u40hAnF7-DAbAUbomlHEufUopGd2Fk3i65s/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-12-31+at+4.34.08+PM.png" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #992211; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 21.78px; position: relative;" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-10388900551490225322021-03-13T15:00:00.000-05:002021-03-13T15:00:23.504-05:00Week 8 Project: Storybook Research / Hausa SpiderI've got some spider stories in the <a href="http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/myth-folklore-unit-west-african.html">West African (Ghana) folktales unit</a> of the UnTextbook, and I think I will supplement those with some Hausa folktales in one of the collections by Tremearne (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_John_Newman_Tremearne">Wikipedia</a>; <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1254844">obituary</a>) where Gizzo is the great hero spider.<div><br /></div><div>Stories from <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028086472/page/n17/mode/1up?q=spider">Fables and fairy tales for little folk; or, Uncle Remus in Hausaland</a></i> by Mary and Arthur Tremearne.<br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028086472/page/n17/mode/1up?q=spider">The Spider Deceives the Hippopotamus and the Elephant.</a> This is a tug of war story! AND it has a great sequel also: the Spider dresses in a dried-up rabbit skin and used that to scare Elephant and Hippo (like the rabbit-in-dried-up-deerskin story!).</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028086472/page/n25/mode/1up?q=spider">How the Hyena was Blamed for the Spider's Wickedness</a>. There is a subplot of Spider and Mrs. Spider (she dies), and Spider is able to pin the corn-theft on Hyena, but I don't think this is one I will use.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028086472/page/n33/mode/1up?q=spider">The Crafty Spider Replenishes his Larder</a>. Spider inviting animals to rebuild his burnt down house (he burnt it down!): Chicken, Wildcat, Dog, Hyena, Leopard, Lion. I could do this as a two-parter: the set-up and then the defeat of the animals one by one.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028086472/page/n49/mode/1up?q=spider">Hausatu and the Enchanted Spider</a>. Spider uses tricks to win a wife, and then sings a song to their baby confessing his tricks. (This could work as a series of tales, but probably not for my Storybook.)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028086472/page/n84/mode/1up?q=spider">How The Thieving Spider was Caught by the Half-Man</a>. Spider pretends to work, fooling Mrs. Spider. Then he steals corn from Half-Man's field, who makes a doll (tar baby).</div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028086472/page/n130/mode/1up?q=spider"><br /></a></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924028086472/page/n121/mode/1up?q=spider">The Boy Who Refused to Walk</a>. Long story in which Spider play sonly a minor role.</div><div><br /></div><div>Stories from <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n444/mode/1up?q=spider">Hausa superstitions and customs</a></i> by Arthur Tremearene:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n225/mode/1up?q=spider">The Spider, the Old Woman, and the Wonderful Bull</a>. Spider is not the main character here but it is a cool and weird story.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n249/mode/1up?q=spider">The Deceitful Spider, the Half-Man, and the Rubber-Girl</a>. See above.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n251/mode/1up?q=spider">The Rich Malam, the Thieving Spider, and the Hyena</a>. Spider sneakily steals from rich man. Rich man catches Spider, but Hyena takes Spider's place. Doing a take-my-place story would be good.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n253/mode/1up?q=spider">The Biter Bit</a>. Cute little story about fooling Spider by putting mud in sacks where there was meat.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n256/mode/1up?q=spider">How the Spider ate the Hyena Cubs' Food</a>. Spider says his name is For-You-All to get the food mother hyena brings cubs, "for you all." Then he runs off and throws blame on Dog by saying he was panting. This is a good one!</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n266/mode/1up?q=spider">The Spider, the Guinea-fowl, and the Francolin</a>. Spider sends Guinea-Fowl back for spoon and for grass, so he eats all the food. Then he tricks Guinea-Fowl into throwing herself in the fire. But then Francolin reverses all the Spider's tricks, and finally tricks Spider into killing his family (like Butterfly in Jamaica story)... this is a good one too!</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n272/mode/1up?q=spider">The camel and the rude monkey</a>. The spider is just one of the judges in this story, while it is the jackal who saves the monkey from the camel.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n298/mode/1up?q=spider">Bortorimi and the Spider</a>. Bortorimi is a giant, which is really cool, and this has an "early dawn" motif I've never seen before: greedy Spider burns down his own house! But the ending is not very good. Greedy Spider wants to go hunting for elephants with Bortorimi again, but Bortorimi says he has enough.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n302/mode/1up?q=spider">The Hyena and the Spider Visit the King of a Far City</a>. Spider replaces Hyena's honey with dirt, so the king is angry. He gives Hyena mats to sleep on, while Spider gets skins. Spider won't share skins with Hyena because greedy Hyena will eat them, but Spider finally relents, and Hyena eats skins. King gives Spider a Bull and Hyena only a goat, which Hyena eats bit by bit along the way. Spider tricked Hyena into going away, and he ate the Bull, then hid in a tree. Hyena brings Ostrich to get Spider out of the tree, and Hyena eats her eggs. An odd story, but with some good elements.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n306/mode/1up?q=spider">The Greedy Spider and the Birds</a>. Birds make wings for Spider so he can fly to island where there are mangos. He greedily ate all the mangos so they took back their feathers and he was trapped on the island. Trying to escape, he drowned.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n312/mode/1up?q=spider">The Spider which Bought a Dog as a Slave</a>. Dog doesn't help farm but he catches a rabbit, so Spider gets Monkey to make arrowheads to equip Dog. Dog attacks Monkey and finally even Spider and his wife must flee and Dog takes their house.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n385/mode/1up?q=spider">The Fighting Ram</a>. Story of a brave Ram who defies King's attempts to capture it. Spider is the King's helper. In the end, they finally kill the poor Ram who is very admirable.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n394/mode/1up?q=spider">The Lazy Boy</a>. Spider is incidental; see Boy Who Refused to Walk above.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n402/mode/1up?q=spider">Woman, Mouse, Cake</a>. Spider comes in at the end and eats both mouse and cake.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n412/mode/1up?q=spider">The Spider Passes on a Debt</a>. Chain tale of debt! Spider to Goat to Crab to Daughter to Slipperiness (!) to Ant to Bird to Boy to Mother to Blacksmith.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n420/mode/1up?q=spider">The Spider Pays his Debts</a>. See the larder story above. I love this story! This is a shorter version without the house-fire.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n427/mode/1up?q=spider">The Lucky Youngest Son</a>. Spider is just a minor character in this story. It opens with a marvelous chain tale! </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026472278/page/n444/mode/1up?q=spider">Sleepless Town</a>. Same way here; Spider is minor character.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Tremearne has also published some really valuable Hausa stories in a series in Folklore. I will write about those in a separate post but what I did for today was to combine them into a handy single PDF so that I will be ready to go! <a href="https://freebookapalooza.blogspot.com/2019/08/tremearne-fifty-hausa-folktales.html"><b>Fifty Hausa Folktales</b></a>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5biaKVghf3FmWbDfWqDEFPoEXXsVISC7zH3kh0DsM9bftwfEBXhaFjQ7ZGt4YVDkCG_BjGTq8ufegeV7zn226h5SF3q2rZNW-xD6ILaolO7U5ya50BtA3sFENs4mI_ZgB98gst8IQE0o/s1350/Flag_of_the_Hausa_people.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1350" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5biaKVghf3FmWbDfWqDEFPoEXXsVISC7zH3kh0DsM9bftwfEBXhaFjQ7ZGt4YVDkCG_BjGTq8ufegeV7zn226h5SF3q2rZNW-xD6ILaolO7U5ya50BtA3sFENs4mI_ZgB98gst8IQE0o/w400-h266/Flag_of_the_Hausa_people.svg.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Hausa_people.svg">Hausa flag</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-87734550506678967292021-03-06T20:11:00.003-05:002021-03-06T20:11:34.850-05:00Week 7: Famous last words... TORTOISE!It was good to get back a full week ahead now; this is my last Week 7 assignment, and it was also so cool to see my <a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2021/02/week-6-famous-last-words-69-days.html">famous last words</a> from last time where I embedded the countdown clock... it's still counting down.<div><br /></div><div>And I had so much fun with my Week 7 project which was adding the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/tortoise">Tortoise page</a> to my Trickster Storybook! </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT9JqxRmxPkvMRmRM9qzE6ljwJ0Q4oUq9sHvPDGBrUYv7JxhxoNrzI_zy3ubD2rAGhW3fFsKI1OkvIpxXa9kMTAhcJtJwq0t_0AyYjrAuITKKEmSQIbCgt62O79SWl5E2mn7ZHFfzq4KE/s400/Screen+Shot+2021-03-06+at+8.03.10+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="400" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT9JqxRmxPkvMRmRM9qzE6ljwJ0Q4oUq9sHvPDGBrUYv7JxhxoNrzI_zy3ubD2rAGhW3fFsKI1OkvIpxXa9kMTAhcJtJwq0t_0AyYjrAuITKKEmSQIbCgt62O79SWl5E2mn7ZHFfzq4KE/w400-h228/Screen+Shot+2021-03-06+at+8.03.10+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I have tortoise stories from different countries, but as it turned out all the stories I included were from Nigeria, so it was cool to include a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria">map of the languages of Nigeria</a>, where it's possible to see the Efik and Igbo regions to the south. What a lot of languages, though: it's amazing!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzJMmA59dxq6n9ktbwlE0N8DEzeOmBwK4uRCto9WBM1ttx3nZyFgSNq0G84rI2ifTbj2wOLO_z59rx5v6M-Pc6phm-jucRKQBfNg3cCgS4KxQy92PK9-Y69P1owfZ-R1vIIh4s_1cdoHs/s400/Screen+Shot+2021-03-06+at+8.03.20+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="400" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzJMmA59dxq6n9ktbwlE0N8DEzeOmBwK4uRCto9WBM1ttx3nZyFgSNq0G84rI2ifTbj2wOLO_z59rx5v6M-Pc6phm-jucRKQBfNg3cCgS4KxQy92PK9-Y69P1owfZ-R1vIIh4s_1cdoHs/w400-h228/Screen+Shot+2021-03-06+at+8.03.20+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And I just love these trickster stories so much... the more I read them, the more I want to read them. The current plan is that I'll be working on African and African American trickster stories for the whole rest of the 2021 calendar year. Plus I think I want to prepare a primary sources book too; that one will probably just be pdf and ebook since I won't want to deal with the hassle of formatting it for print. I've been thinking a lot about that and I am soooo tempted to start working on that now, but I know I really can't. This semester is seriously kicking my butt, and I don't have time. But soon: I will have time.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Last week I <a href="http://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2021/02/unleashing-student-voices-with-open.html">did a presentation</a> with a friend who teaches Gen. Ed. science about student web publishing in Gen. Ed. classes, and it went really well, and that made me more confident for the OERxDomains conference in April. It is the first time ever that I have been asked to give a keynote address, which is pretty overwhelming, but I am excited too. Anyway, no time for new projects... I should start working on that keynote project now and make it a whole website or something because of course I know I won't have time to say all the things I'd like to say. They're going to announce the other keynote speaker(s) next week. I am sooooo curious who it will be. <a href="https://twitter.com/OERConf/status/1367106327949037570">This is the tweet</a> where they made me official. :-)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">We are delighted to announce our first keynote speaker for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OERxDomains21?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OERxDomains21</a> - Laura Gibbs! <a href="https://twitter.com/OnlineCrsLady?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OnlineCrsLady</a> Early bird registration is still open. Register here from £99 - <a href="https://t.co/sjnuHukT0k">https://t.co/sjnuHukT0k</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/altc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#altc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OER21?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OER21</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Domains21?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Domains21</a> <a href="https://t.co/2HP2VIk33v">pic.twitter.com/2HP2VIk33v</a></p>— OER Open Education Conference (@OERConf) <a href="https://twitter.com/OERConf/status/1367106327949037570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">At the time, I thought last week really sucked (and, for various reasons, it really did suck), but looking back on it, everything worked out fine. And I am very happy with my tortoise stories! Next up will be SPIDER.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-70815123257130652852021-02-27T16:21:00.004-05:002021-02-27T16:25:47.592-05:00Week 6: Famous Last Words... 69 daysThe past couple of weeks have been busy with too much stuff, and the same is true for the weeks to come, so I made a big decision this week: I'm not going to try to keep working on the Brer Rabbit book during the semester, at least not doing the writing. For the writing, I'll just stick to my African Tricksters project in this class, and then I'll get back to writing for the Brer Rabbit book after the end of the semester. That was a hard decision, but I've got over 100 Brer Rabbit stories written, so I think it's safe to take a pause, and then I'll jump right back into it when the semester is over and still be able to finish the book in early July, and the African rabbit trickster book in early August, so that sounds good: a summer of rabbit tricksters!<div><br /></div><div>My countdown clocks says 69 days right now... so, that is how long till the end of my OU teaching career, but also the beginning of my new writing career. Yay for endings that are also beginnings! I decided to do one of the <b><a href="http://onlinecourselady.pbworks.com/w/page/128626506/countdown">Tech Tips</a></b> and put a countdown here in my blog post.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="tickcounter" data-id="2442323" data-type="countdown" style="height: 100px; margin: 0px auto; width: 400px;"><a href="//www.tickcounter.com/countdown/2442323/mission-accomplished" title="Mission Accomplished">Mission Accomplished</a><a href="//www.tickcounter.com/" title="Countdown">Countdown</a></div><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, pjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//www.tickcounter.com/static/js/loader.js"; pjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, pjs); }(document, "script", "tickcounter-sdk"));</script></div><div><br /></div><div>And I did some good writing today, even if it is just a short story-cycle: it's <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2021/02/week-7-story-trickster-tortoise-from.html">Tortoise and the King's Magic Drum</a></b> from Nigeria. It was really exciting to come to this material after having worked so much on African American stories in the U.S. and the Caribbean: now I feel so much more confident about recognizing distinctively African folktale motifs and seeing how they appear in both African and African American stories! </div><div><br /></div><div>And, of course, since I am currently learning to drum, it was exciting to have the magical food object be a drum! For an illustration, I found this whole<b><a href="https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/3328"> webpage about an iyaalu bata drum</a></b> which is an important drum in Yoruba musical performance and rituals, and the webpage also explains that the Yoruba people credit Eshu with the creation of drums, and Eshu is also associated with trickster traditions being a kind of trickster-god. So that was exciting to learn about!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSV-dHMJieWDjgqwI82ha1KLxAjqml9MKJ-RMK5o_sKywmBaXMUgGgka6c_gimaysJYxFMy3mtYbZUNdMlG2NltX6lgvGC5FYmEbq3wbr14UoTxCh4vI_J3THII5gV8tdLsAdwyZ7qQOc/s634/30e8a8467d236e9a467ff0c4a1fb2a17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSV-dHMJieWDjgqwI82ha1KLxAjqml9MKJ-RMK5o_sKywmBaXMUgGgka6c_gimaysJYxFMy3mtYbZUNdMlG2NltX6lgvGC5FYmEbq3wbr14UoTxCh4vI_J3THII5gV8tdLsAdwyZ7qQOc/s16000/30e8a8467d236e9a467ff0c4a1fb2a17.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">from the</div><div style="text-align: center;">Grinnell College</div><div style="text-align: center;">Musicial Instruments Collection</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/3328"><b>website</b></a></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-56833067378865951022021-02-27T15:29:00.010-05:002021-03-05T18:45:24.795-05:00Week 7 Story: Trickster Tortoise from Nigeria!My focus this semester is on African trickster stories, so the Africa reading units are great sources for me: there's trickster Anansi the spider in the West Africa unit, plus more Anansi in the Jamaica unit, plus Brer Rabbit, and... the trickster tortoise of Nigeria who I will be writing about in this post. Here is my version of "The King's Magic Drum" in Elphinstone Dayrell's book, <a href="https://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/index.htm">Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria</a>. The story is quite long (around 2500 words), and I have condensed it down to four 100-word stories.<div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9xD3tzKnn5OYgZwErDJGxzHhvd-jLq9cnuWnvnX3357FOBV2Cliz-tvfJBrMXX7IOUtRnrzj0srOqvI5MVTVsPr4Q7Hpyxbpfg3gwrHOSvnisIJamEOfR9E5R3DzEOnjrgIwlRqjzC4U/s800/325da7fdefdb1eaa9161e0b4424c3cff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9xD3tzKnn5OYgZwErDJGxzHhvd-jLq9cnuWnvnX3357FOBV2Cliz-tvfJBrMXX7IOUtRnrzj0srOqvI5MVTVsPr4Q7Hpyxbpfg3gwrHOSvnisIJamEOfR9E5R3DzEOnjrgIwlRqjzC4U/w400-h268/325da7fdefdb1eaa9161e0b4424c3cff.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Tortoise and the King's Drum</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>The King's magic drum produced unlimited food and drink. The King alone knew the drum's secret: if the drum's owner stepped over a stick, warriors would come out of the drum and attack him.</div><div>Tortoise, who was poor and lazy, wanted that drum. He climbed a palm-tree and waited. When the King walked by, Tortoise dropped a palm-nut.</div><div>The King picked it up.</div><div>"You stole my food!" Tortoise shouted. "I'm poor; you must pay!"</div><div>"Take whatever you want," said the King kindly.</div><div>"Give me the drum!" said Tortoise.</div><div>Smiling, the King agreed, but he didn't tell Tortoise the drum's secret.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Tortoise is Rich</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Tortoise rejoiced. "With this drum, I will have food and drink without working!"</div><div>Tortoise ate, and he was happy.</div><div>Tortoise fed his family, and they were happy.</div><div>Tortoise feasted the whole village, boasting about his wealth. Now everyone admired Tortoise.</div><div>One day Tortoise got drunk on palm-wine and started to dance. As he danced, he stepped over a stick. </div><div>He wanted more wine, but when he beat the drum, the warriors emerged, armed with whips and clubs, and they attacked Tortoise.</div><div>Tortoise was angry. "I should not be the only one to suffer!" he thought, and he made a plan.</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg42DRqBHGGWgM6X8vaL6uwpnaoRtCd8lLepPHJCg9HIelrTIM_LLkV7vosdPY2HmjkxNiVMlvGrwwKE6MKu0e82Term0EMNAtl7A9kzje-e16HRg09bY8GXtGQmlzGZZuueakzC2T2ZiQ/s1200/DsJGJyAXgAUWhKT.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1200" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg42DRqBHGGWgM6X8vaL6uwpnaoRtCd8lLepPHJCg9HIelrTIM_LLkV7vosdPY2HmjkxNiVMlvGrwwKE6MKu0e82Term0EMNAtl7A9kzje-e16HRg09bY8GXtGQmlzGZZuueakzC2T2ZiQ/w400-h284/DsJGJyAXgAUWhKT.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Tortoise's Revenge</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>"When I was poor, everyone mocked me," Tortoise thought. "Now they only pretend to like me, but I'll teach them a lesson."</div><div>Tortoise announced another feast. He invited all the men and animals, but he sent his own wife and children away.</div><div>Then, when everyone arrived, Tortoise beat the drum. The warriors appeared and attacked all the guests. Tortoise kept drumming, and the warriors kept attacking.</div><div>Tortoise didn't stop until all the guests were lying on the ground, groaning in agony.</div><div>Then Tortoise went to the King. "This drum is no good!" he said. "You must give me something else."</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjS-qhjRMr3Ft0GhS_C2HC5KMt3hrsG0irVVsj7k7BD1ajRRAlR1cllgDMyU48kLNJQ4ELbZso4r3V8n1tErdNFLA1935UOYWrO2jp5TExM8MLmQTkq2OqFxOt0rpqOh8zAHdp09ZDWkk/s960/7279ae7263845591b628778ec3e8c8eecc5ffbee_960px.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjS-qhjRMr3Ft0GhS_C2HC5KMt3hrsG0irVVsj7k7BD1ajRRAlR1cllgDMyU48kLNJQ4ELbZso4r3V8n1tErdNFLA1935UOYWrO2jp5TExM8MLmQTkq2OqFxOt0rpqOh8zAHdp09ZDWkk/w400-h360/7279ae7263845591b628778ec3e8c8eecc5ffbee_960px.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUR0Tb47ixXJGc3FnO2VKJqeJ0dCr7mxZhxE6vc_VH3XuZJAxf3a6X51ArOohG15P-bAdd0F3uCwAB7nlP6xs1vRf8IFwqtiux0tb5yumP4PtdV23h1Y-EznrNf0Pra7aOaPaCPd2e7zo/s363/240_F_99296929_XllBrRGHNeNxxpiOaQOHpkHNpcvkSXDq.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="363" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUR0Tb47ixXJGc3FnO2VKJqeJ0dCr7mxZhxE6vc_VH3XuZJAxf3a6X51ArOohG15P-bAdd0F3uCwAB7nlP6xs1vRf8IFwqtiux0tb5yumP4PtdV23h1Y-EznrNf0Pra7aOaPaCPd2e7zo/w400-h264/240_F_99296929_XllBrRGHNeNxxpiOaQOHpkHNpcvkSXDq.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Tortoise and the Breadfruit-Tree</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>The King showed Tortoise a magic breadfruit-tree. "Every morning, the tree produces breadfruit. Harvest only once each day, not twice."</div><div>Tortoise gathered breadfruit each morning, and his family ate happily.</div><div>Tortoise's son asked where the food came from, but Tortoise wouldn't say. So the son poked a hole in Tortoise's sack and filled it with ashes. After Tortoise returned with breadfruit, the greedy son followed the trail of ashes. But when he reached for a breadfruit, a thorn-bush sprang up and swallowed the tree.</div><div>When Tortoise came the next morning, there was no tree. </div><div>Just a thorn-bush.</div></div><div>No more magic.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIVVULFtUD7kICtAxOTcZWtyc4GLsU-8YgdJvKUFp8fTA0PRvHU6s8PRqUwInWJv9FmtxUnRZ_tJjySxluYWrIwvoxNQINkRb81sOzcHqEkBRiGVuYxUuOnAW9Iaz9nEJxAP4QFuURhho/s1599/1599px-Tortoise_movement.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1599" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIVVULFtUD7kICtAxOTcZWtyc4GLsU-8YgdJvKUFp8fTA0PRvHU6s8PRqUwInWJv9FmtxUnRZ_tJjySxluYWrIwvoxNQINkRb81sOzcHqEkBRiGVuYxUuOnAW9Iaz9nEJxAP4QFuURhho/w400-h266/1599px-Tortoise_movement.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b><i>Author's notes.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Here is a link to the story: <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn06.htm">The King's Magic Drum</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>The motif of a magical object that can bestow food or punishment regularly shows up trickster stories, including African American trickster stories, like this Anansi tale: <a href="https://microfables.blogspot.com/2020/08/anansi-and-avocado-tree.html">Anansi and the Avocado Tree</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>The story starts by explaining how the king uses this magic drum to keep the peace: whenever his enemies showed up, the king would use the drum to summon a huge feast, and instead of fighting, he would feed his enemy, and they would leave happy. The king is a very sympathetic character in this story (not always the case with kings in folktales!).</div><div><br /></div><div>In the original story, it was the princess who picked the palm-nut up and then Tortoise petitioned the king, but to keep the story short, I went straight to the king. </div><div><br /></div><div>Also, in the original story, the tree drops cooked foo-foo; you can read about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fufu">foo-foo (fufu) at Wikipedia</a>. I made it a breadfruit tree, since foo-foo is not a familiar term in American English. Breadfruit is not familiar, but at least you can tell right away that it is some kind of foodstuff; more about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treculia_africana">African breadfruit</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>The thorn-bush at the end is called "prickly tie-tie palm" and that is where tortoises supposedly live today.<br /><br /><i><b>Image information</b>. </i></div></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Drum: <a href="https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/3328">ìyáàlù bàtá drum</a>.</div></div><div>Warriors: <a href="https://twitter.com/ukpuru/status/1063489605901737985">Leopard society of Nigerian Egbo warriors</a>.</div><div>Breadfruit: <a href="http://tropical.theferns.info/image.php?id=Treculia+africana">Treculia africana</a>.</div><div>Breadfruit: <a href="https://healthguide.ng/health-benefits-of-breadfruit-ukwa/">also called ukwa</a>.</div><div>Tortoise: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tortoise_movement.jpg">called ijapa in Yoruba language</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-86558053743016605422021-02-13T16:18:00.004-05:002021-02-13T16:18:48.829-05:00Week 5 Famous Last Words: Trickster Hare!I got so into working on hare stories this morning that I forgot about the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ungrading&src=typed_query&f=live"><b>#Ungrading Twitter chat today</b></a>; luckily somebody pinged me so I was able to jump in in time for that (so many faculty members are different schools are trying to think about new/different ways to do grading, grade less, or go gradeless!)... and then I jumped right back into writing the hare stories: it was so much fun! These are the first African "tiny tale" stories that I have written, which means they are the first in what is going to be a six-month adventure that will lead to three African trickster tale books by the time I am done. The goal is to finish the Rabbit book on July 1, the Spider book on August 1, and the Tortoise book on September 1.<div><br /></div><div>If it is all as much fun as today, it will be a good six months!</div><div><br /></div><div>These are the stories I wrote today: <b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/hare">Hare Stories</a></b>. I made little screenshots of them. You can click on each one to see a bigger version, or go to the story at the website.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/hare#h.g9ff4xnd5onm">The Drought</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TF9ZtMDofJJbHh31Vl9PPfJARrElCm-UL8qC3n4g63ibc6c8R2B3PReCFt8-3GNvmtroQ9bYrsM0VBmhe3llwLyaOOlAnrUHD1rsetMNc9jGkJw2azmrKBe4sOTQM91VcUNsnvoy-50/s1776/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.06.38+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1776" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3TF9ZtMDofJJbHh31Vl9PPfJARrElCm-UL8qC3n4g63ibc6c8R2B3PReCFt8-3GNvmtroQ9bYrsM0VBmhe3llwLyaOOlAnrUHD1rsetMNc9jGkJw2azmrKBe4sOTQM91VcUNsnvoy-50/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.06.38+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/hare#h.tsi72rht71l">Hare and Tortoise</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXuJC04XwcU2VC5HeVXB_uqKJY6O8Z2eVFcqf7ts1BCYX9fAP-ThWOkSGAS-B0_NQR4XW0iZwpli5bk7SsK09mDnWhrCZKAlu87wKAwFwS0ExIBXXtyvfNZuy3g2qdUhYwkwL0fJZuL9A/s1858/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.06.45+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXuJC04XwcU2VC5HeVXB_uqKJY6O8Z2eVFcqf7ts1BCYX9fAP-ThWOkSGAS-B0_NQR4XW0iZwpli5bk7SsK09mDnWhrCZKAlu87wKAwFwS0ExIBXXtyvfNZuy3g2qdUhYwkwL0fJZuL9A/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.06.45+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/hare#h.z3po0zxny982">Hare's Punishment</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYQM37tFpXj1rvNVu5Kl1PljFx0mcJWM_RtbfTTlskrbfJQBVC1-lkMpEj8CV12LAfKSWQ_4ynLyJz_eEfViRAVndM8VqMQFsQT2RCeOXQeIynBUX9NZkIx_1VTHKTLpiXxuMgoFszWM0/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.07.03+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/hare#h.d1qcjastyndf">Hare and Elephant</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7rFRJfi2H6nhUr97GoZk0pwZmdTTF_ka_sTHli3q2XVl2q0okjtxzhuDOMi4A1fL1lanlRtm0JpH2sBa9j7cfL0z-TeFKEKa0gxyJIiR7ej2jo5d2IIYNGSuvNPAMs4jmiSmesswMe1Y/s1862/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.08.11+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1862" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7rFRJfi2H6nhUr97GoZk0pwZmdTTF_ka_sTHli3q2XVl2q0okjtxzhuDOMi4A1fL1lanlRtm0JpH2sBa9j7cfL0z-TeFKEKa0gxyJIiR7ej2jo5d2IIYNGSuvNPAMs4jmiSmesswMe1Y/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.08.11+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/hare#h.en7g3iubivc">Hare and Buffalo</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga49qqcGx7oBpD055JyK21XSGr-L56MipbCdslQABILeEdP4EpaRgBrhrrsChYabbQXJD-eut_tCc63xOppdpvjHM1ZWBPQX9tI3xShyltugoZp1fGmxoQANXbRUg6POfQ6D4qe3mcvg0/s1880/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.08.21+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1880" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga49qqcGx7oBpD055JyK21XSGr-L56MipbCdslQABILeEdP4EpaRgBrhrrsChYabbQXJD-eut_tCc63xOppdpvjHM1ZWBPQX9tI3xShyltugoZp1fGmxoQANXbRUg6POfQ6D4qe3mcvg0/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.08.21+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/hare#h.l5hcflxyd8or">Hare and Leopard</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl_D6JjOZ_mk1rsgVNUd9IDIU0lVhzVDMRcLRaQPdWuvlnWHucO56SjGZlZZTWJBXEpMGKs1qI5rSBJCvkPryLlOVMQ-6EAXaNcDJoHKh3maui4gjMnT8xRZZhPGzeFv_AmTDMMh8nwxI/s1860/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.08.30+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1860" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl_D6JjOZ_mk1rsgVNUd9IDIU0lVhzVDMRcLRaQPdWuvlnWHucO56SjGZlZZTWJBXEpMGKs1qI5rSBJCvkPryLlOVMQ-6EAXaNcDJoHKh3maui4gjMnT8xRZZhPGzeFv_AmTDMMh8nwxI/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+4.08.30+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I didn't really choose the stories in any particular way, except that I knew for sure I wanted an example of a tar-baby story since that one is so famous because of the Brer Rabbit version. So, I started with that one, and then just picked stories I liked from my spreadsheet.</div><div><br /></div><div>And the spreadsheet is now... GIGANTIC. I have over 500 stories bookmarked with hare or rabbit from African sources. Admittedly, some of those are duplicates, but still: I will clearly have NO trouble at all coming up with 200 stories for an African Rabbit book. The problem will not be finding stories, but deciding just which ones to include.</div><div><br /></div><div>That is a problem I can live with.</div><div><br /></div><div>The power already went out here once today because of ice on the powerlines... it's not as cold here as it is Norman so I guess that is actually making it worse since the precipitation comes down as freezing rain. Anyway, I hope everybody does okay when the big snow hits Norman tomorrow. I actually saw them using the word blizzard in one of the forecasts. I don't know exactly what it takes to make a blizzard... but a blizzard is sure not what I would expect in Norman.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, I'll be under the warm sun of Africa, thanks to the magic of books. Lots more to read and learn this weekend...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-12472510505157843932021-02-07T13:55:00.002-05:002021-02-07T13:57:11.540-05:00Week 4 Famous Last Words: Trickster WebsiteI'm trying to stay head of schedule, and that's working good so far; I finished up Week 4 this weekend by setting up my Storybook website: <b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/home">African Tricksters</a></b>! I even created pages for the four tricksters I want to write about: Hare, Spider, Tortoise, and Mantis.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeL6UKBsvY3uzFi8_PlbwHcPRrMQkryUbgDxKtxOykpyEv5bK4BqU4p0tfr5mMafbvx3K79YpSZ0upCENCFoXyCcCU02OBEqwu6UPDnZs-IX52-TxWzQourgTHH2T_FLaiY4l2B7B5Os/s1576/Screen+Shot+2021-02-07+at+1.50.32+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1576" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBeL6UKBsvY3uzFi8_PlbwHcPRrMQkryUbgDxKtxOykpyEv5bK4BqU4p0tfr5mMafbvx3K79YpSZ0upCENCFoXyCcCU02OBEqwu6UPDnZs-IX52-TxWzQourgTHH2T_FLaiY4l2B7B5Os/w400-h224/Screen+Shot+2021-02-07+at+1.50.32+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Doing the research for the Hare stories was really exciting because I realized that it will later on be possible to do a whole book just of African trickster Hare stories. Right now I'm working on a Brer Rabbit book, and I'll be able to follow up on that with a whole book of the African stories that are the ultimate origin for (most of) the Brer Rabbit stories. Then I'll do a book of African Anansi stories, as a follow up to the book I already did with <b><a href="http://Anansi.LauraGibbs.net">Caribbean Anansi stories</a></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hare, Spider, and Tortoise stories all came to the Americans. Spider stories are more in the Caribbean, where you'll also find Rabbit stories. The Rabbit stories gave us Brer Rabbit in the U.S., plus there are lots of great Tortoise stories too; if there's a trickster who can rival Brer Rabbit, it's Brer Terrapin.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mantis is different: he is the trickster of the San people (a.k.a. Bushmen), and they were not brought as slaves to the Americas, so Mantis stories will be something new to all my readers I think, and there are so many great stories about him. Plus..... thanks to the fact that books from 1924 are now in the public domain, that means this book is now available online at Hathi Trust: <a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001287035"><b>The Mantis and his friends by W. H. I. Bleek</b></a>. AMAZING. I have been wanting to read this book for a long time, but used copies are rare and expensive, so I was not able to get a copy... until now! I've pasted in the table of contents below. It looks wonderful, and I am really excited about this decision to include Mantis in my project this semester.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSP1y17ApCa31PCFYWMJsdu-mYlZCG7g1Jncnpsy1DqFgfksVsEOKyA4LUC-DhtoOAXN1qRKkTWPjWIhqU5l4vv1U-sjtJP_0WuiirxuWhYCtD3cmE6tr0Dyd045iJpM181w3o_vLjexw/s533/396-2014815132139_original.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSP1y17ApCa31PCFYWMJsdu-mYlZCG7g1Jncnpsy1DqFgfksVsEOKyA4LUC-DhtoOAXN1qRKkTWPjWIhqU5l4vv1U-sjtJP_0WuiirxuWhYCtD3cmE6tr0Dyd045iJpM181w3o_vLjexw/s16000/396-2014815132139_original.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>So, I know I've just written about my project and nothing else here in the post, but I am super-excited about it, and this coming week will be exciting too because I'll be reading project ideas from so many people in both classes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yay projects! Yay stories!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_vBNFzbUVhdYB_-u_5FHcplwTaSUFxH2P3g5Pe85PsK0ZybFZHUwJi71NMKrob6nFHbRRCndgXaaptLo5Un4Re3jS-C7VDIsh1Ni5mQlaFMQlO1nb1q4p5BcVyrE3aoo6v4vy2klWTtU/s707/Screen+Shot+2021-02-07+at+1.48.08+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_vBNFzbUVhdYB_-u_5FHcplwTaSUFxH2P3g5Pe85PsK0ZybFZHUwJi71NMKrob6nFHbRRCndgXaaptLo5Un4Re3jS-C7VDIsh1Ni5mQlaFMQlO1nb1q4p5BcVyrE3aoo6v4vy2klWTtU/s16000/Screen+Shot+2021-02-07+at+1.48.08+PM.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-81901477564872098552021-02-07T12:37:00.000-05:002021-02-21T12:55:16.339-05:00Week 6 Story Lab: Tortoise ResearchIt's still just Week 5 for me here, but I wanted to take advantage of some time today to do some trickster tortoise research! I have a stack of books I can use, but I'd rather work with public domain materials I can link to in the author's notes, so here is a quick run-down of some stories I might look at when I get to the trickster tortoise stories (so far I have done one page: <b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/hare">Trickster Hare</a></b>!).<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyj8mIxucvhnEEJIJDcck3_G7xVNJqsB0i3WEF4J0bBXtdhZv2zjtaX-RwlDppvVUTyCK4DkRqG8J7fXAJ5bbTKX8OorQx35LsVgcPci8Jb83lvKHARs6l8qLlt_3loHIaNW8c7Oa3W4A/s400/5457736062_a67bd03899_w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyj8mIxucvhnEEJIJDcck3_G7xVNJqsB0i3WEF4J0bBXtdhZv2zjtaX-RwlDppvVUTyCK4DkRqG8J7fXAJ5bbTKX8OorQx35LsVgcPci8Jb83lvKHARs6l8qLlt_3loHIaNW8c7Oa3W4A/w400-h268/5457736062_a67bd03899_w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">(<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/isaachsieh/5457736062/">African pancake tortoise</a>)</div><div><br /></div><div>Here are some tortoise story possibilities based on my Diigo bookmarks; I'll add notes here for the ones that are likely candidates:</div><div><br /></div><div>1 <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RgD-EHfhnI-wU6tDhIdHMLo-NoQDQfI3kNtXye1dfm0/edit" target="_blank">THE TORTOISE WITH A PRETTY DAUGHTER</a>. Nigeria. These stories from Nigeria are ones I can use for storytelling coming up in Week 7! There are eight here, which will be plenty for a nice story post next week.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn06.htm" target="_blank">4 The King's Magic Drum</a>: Nigeria. Interaction with royal family again here.<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn14.htm" target="_blank">12. Why the Bat is Ashamed to be seen in the Daytime</a>: Nigeria. This story is really more about the bat.</div><div><br /></div><div>14 <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/125j0tQntzJlXwNpzOKGnyzoCty9RO4k8dEgIQvh40Yc/edit" target="_blank">THE ELEPHANT AND THE TORTOISE</a>: This is one of the stories I wrote up last summer: why elephant has small eyes.<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn24.htm" target="_blank">22 The Affair of the Hippopotamus and the Tortoise; or, Why the Hippopotamus lives in the Water</a>: Nigeria. This is a fun one where the tortoise learns the hippo's secret name. <br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn27.htm" target="_blank">25 Concerning the Leopard, the Squirrel, and the Tortoise</a>: Nigeria. A story about saving mothers/grandmothers.<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn29.htm" target="_blank">27 The Story of the Leopard, the Tortoise, and the Bush Rat</a>: Nigeria. This is a follow-up to the previous story; the leopard is angry at the tortoise.<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/fssn/fsn31.htm" target="_blank">29. How the Tortoise overcame the Elephant and the Hippopotamus</a>: Nigeria. A tug-of-war story! YES!</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm going to stop here because I can tell that there are plenty of great Nigerian stories to get me started, and I can come back later and add notes for the stories below, starting with the South African stories which come next here in the list. When I get around to doing Tortoise research for the project assignment maybe in Week 8, I'll fill in more notes and start choosing which stories will actually go into the Storybook. :-)</div><div><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/saft/sft31.htm" target="_blank">28: Elephant And Tortoise</a>: ___.<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/saft/sft33.htm" target="_blank">29: Tortoises Hunting Ostriches</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/sbf/sbf05.htm" target="_blank">3: The Story Of The Leopard Tortoise.</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/yl35.htm" target="_blank">32 TORTOISE AND THE KING</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/yl36.htm" target="_blank">33 TORTOISE AND MR. FLY</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/yl38.htm" target="_blank">35 THE THREE DEATHS OF TORTOISE</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/yl39.htm" target="_blank">36 TORTOISE AND THE COCK</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/yl40.htm" target="_blank">37 TORTOISE AND CRAB</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/yl41.htm" target="_blank">38 TORTOISE AND PIGEON</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/yl42.htm" target="_blank">39 TORTOISE AND THE WHIP-TREE</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/yl43.htm" target="_blank">40 TORTOISE AND THE RAIN</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924026950968/page/n362" target="_blank">40. The Great Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/details/ikomfolkstoriesf00dayr/page/3" target="_blank">2. The Cunning Hare; or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/details/ikomfolkstoriesf00dayr/page/37" target="_blank">13. Of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi, and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/details/ikomfolkstoriesf00dayr/page/84" target="_blank">29. Why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/details/oldhendrikstale00vauggoog/page/n244" target="_blank">12. Why the Tortoise has no Hair on.</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/details/reynardfoxinsou00blee/page/27" target="_blank">14. The Elephant and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/details/reynardfoxinsou00blee/page/30" target="_blank">15. The Giraffe and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/details/reynardfoxinsou00blee/page/32" target="_blank">16. The Tortoises Hunting the Ostriches</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/details/songstalesfromda00burl/page/43" target="_blank">(I) The Hare and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t09w10m5d&view=1up&seq=219" target="_blank">4. The Hare and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t6xw7fc55;view=2up;seq=258" target="_blank">27. The Princess and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044004986253;view=1up;seq=324;size=110" target="_blank">4 A Tortoise and a Fowl</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044004986253;view=1up;seq=327;size=125" target="_blank">6 A Tortoise and a Buffalo</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014345805&view=1up&seq=122&size=125" target="_blank">2. The tortoise and the elephant</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014345805&view=1up&seq=130" target="_blank">11. The tortoise and the monkey</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014345805&view=1up&seq=131" target="_blank">12. The tortoise and the leopard</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014345805&view=1up&seq=131&size=125" target="_blank">13. The tortoise and the leopard (another version)</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014345805&view=1up&seq=132" target="_blank">14. The tortoise and the leopard quarrel about their villages</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014345805&view=1up&seq=135" target="_blank">17. The tortoise and the leopard and the python</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014345805&view=1up&seq=140" target="_blank">24. The tortoise who waited for toadstools</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044020054441&view=1up&seq=319" target="_blank">8. The Hare and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044020314415;view=1up;seq=278" target="_blank">5. Sigo and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044020314415;view=1up;seq=281" target="_blank">6. Tortoise and the King's Mute Daughter</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044020314415;view=1up;seq=283" target="_blank">7. The Tortoise and the Elephant</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044020314415;view=1up;seq=285" target="_blank">8. The Woman Named Adun and Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044020314415;view=1up;seq=287" target="_blank">9. Tortoise and the Slender Maiden</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044020314415;view=1up;seq=289" target="_blank">10. Tortoise and Lizard</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.tz1jq2&view=1up&seq=317" target="_blank">4. The Hare and the Tortoise Farming</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.tz1pcs&view=1up&seq=437&size=125" target="_blank">17. Leopard and tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556042382689;view=2up;seq=138" target="_blank">16. The Tortoise And The Antelope</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556042382689;view=2up;seq=152" target="_blank">22. The Tortoise And The Baboon</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556042382689;view=2up;seq=154" target="_blank">23. The Tortoise And The Lemur</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000011340514&view=1up&seq=223" target="_blank">17 Stealing fire from the Creator: Why Chameleon and Tortoise are respected</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000011340514&view=1up&seq=255" target="_blank">28 Tortoise as diviner for animals</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000011340514&view=1up&seq=256" target="_blank">29 How Tortoise got his shell: Tortoise becomes diviner</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000099905097&view=1up&seq=122" target="_blank">1. The Swallow and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000099905097&view=1up&seq=147" target="_blank">18. The rabbit and the leopard</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835322&view=1up&seq=246" target="_blank">8 The Spider Outwitted by the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=147" target="_blank">3. Ingomo (The Animals)</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000118569312&view=1up&seq=347&size=120" target="_blank">5. The Tortoise and the Baboon</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000118600687;view=2up;seq=68" target="_blank">11. The Blind Man and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t40s0mc82;view=1up;seq=102" target="_blank">1. Mr. Tortoise and Mr. Hare</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015001579658&view=1up&seq=390" target="_blank">E21 Tortoise, Because of the Way She and Fish-Eagle Deceived Each Other, Does not Eat Meat</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015001579658&view=1up&seq=395" target="_blank">H1 Why Hare Had His Destiny Foretold by Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015001579658&view=1up&seq=410" target="_blank">H15 Hare is Outwitted by Mrs. Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015001689994&view=1up&seq=478" target="_blank">The Hare And The Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006585379&view=1up&seq=100&size=125" target="_blank">A5. Tortoise and Omemamoni</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006585379&view=1up&seq=107" target="_blank">A9. The Tortoise and the Eggs</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006585379&view=1up&seq=109" target="_blank">A11. Snail and Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006585379&view=1up&seq=39" target="_blank">Edo7. The Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006585379&view=1up&seq=78" target="_blank">Edo26. Dog and Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006585379&view=1up&seq=94" target="_blank">S4. Tortoise and Snail</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006585379&view=1up&seq=99" target="_blank">A3. King and Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010339540;view=1up;seq=101" target="_blank">B5 Tortoise in a Race</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010339540;view=1up;seq=246;size=125" target="_blank">F6 Tortoise Covers His Ignorance</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010339540;view=1up;seq=251;size=125" target="_blank">F10 The Treachery of Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010339540;view=2up;seq=128;size=150" target="_blank">B12 The Lies of Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010339540;view=2up;seq=136;size=150" target="_blank">B14 Tortoise and the Bojabi Tree</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010339540;view=2up;seq=148;size=150" target="_blank">B16 Tortoise, Dog, Leopard, and the Njabi Fruit</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010339540;view=2up;seq=160;size=150" target="_blank">B19 The Deceptions of Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014620390&view=1up&seq=245&size=120" target="_blank">6. The Eagle Leaves the Tortoise in the Lurch</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014620390&view=1up&seq=247" target="_blank">7. The Kite Breaks His Promise to the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026577240&view=1up&seq=757" target="_blank">The Clever Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027385445;view=2up;seq=32" target="_blank">3 The Tortoise and the Hyena</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046804343&view=1up&seq=162" target="_blank">5. The Tortoise and the Fish Eagle</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051184854&view=2up&seq=26" target="_blank">4. The Son of the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684744;view=1up;seq=103" target="_blank">17 Tortoise and Hornbill</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684744;view=1up;seq=109" target="_blank">18 Tortoise and His Father-in-law</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684744;view=1up;seq=117" target="_blank">19 Tortoise and Bush Cat</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684744;view=1up;seq=134" target="_blank">22 Tortoise and Blind Man</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684744;view=1up;seq=149" target="_blank">28 Tortoise and Daughter</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684744;view=1up;seq=155" target="_blank">29 Tortoise and Elephant</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684744;view=1up;seq=156" target="_blank">30 Spider and Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684744;view=1up;seq=73" target="_blank">2 Tortoise and His Children</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684744;view=1up;seq=80" target="_blank">6 Tortoise becomes King</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684744;view=1up;seq=98" target="_blank">15 Tortoise and the Blind Man</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075684777;view=1up;seq=100" target="_blank">38 Story of the Tortoise and the King</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433068183585&view=1up&seq=261" target="_blank">Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433068183585&view=1up&seq=263" target="_blank">The Tortoise and the Pig</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3488477&view=1up&seq=219" target="_blank">8. How The Tortoise Helped the Animals</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3488477&view=1up&seq=222" target="_blank">9. The Tortoise and a Man Named Tela</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3488477&view=1up&seq=223" target="_blank">10. A Dog and a Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3488477&view=1up&seq=224" target="_blank">11. The Pig and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4346897&view=1up&seq=442" target="_blank">118 Strained friendship: Friend as hostage: Why Frog is in the water and Tortoise gives fire</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4346897&view=1up&seq=443" target="_blank">119 Why Tortoise lives in the bush</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4385563;view=1up;seq=560" target="_blank">16. How the Tortoise Got the Cracks and Bumps on His Back</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4385563;view=1up;seq=576" target="_blank">26. How Obassi Osaw Proved the Wisdom of Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5021948;view=2up;seq=460" target="_blank">13 How the civet and the tortoise lost their friendship</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5021948;view=2up;seq=474" target="_blank">17 How the tortoise was punished for his deceit</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t9p26xq9c&view=2up&seq=156" target="_blank">XIV. The Little Red Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x004246952&view=1up&seq=206" target="_blank">The Tortoise and the Bat</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89009038407&view=1up&seq=159&size=120" target="_blank">4. The Hare and the Tortoise</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/13jI1eowWOgQ4QaRvPc4ZzGon25F4xB_lmdIZEcbKoV0/edit" target="_blank">THE HUNTER AND THE TORTOISE</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mKdHfbXJpAYpGOgapZLwDs0eD1PtWZemVPqZGKpavL8/edit" target="_blank">TESTS OF DEATH, v. 2</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qH6ye1o2nvEhU2Xmn0Kihagx9YrkrfQGgVS5PIuyobc/edit" target="_blank">HOW THE TORTOISE GOT ITS SHELL</a>: ___<br /><br />
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TwGSSef8lHxmxYFrtV39jpt82HRRtBBy1XRQ4SDbcYU/edit" target="_blank">TASKS DONE FOR A WIFE</a>: ___<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-41859912400953211292021-02-06T16:07:00.005-05:002021-02-06T17:16:53.959-05:00Week 4 Story Lab: African Trickster Hare ResearchI'm using the Story Lab option for this week to do research into Kalulu the Hare for my project. So, of course, I got so excited reading about all these stories that I'm tempted to make my project all about the rabbit, but of course I'll feel the same way when I do the research for the other animals too... so that will be in Week 6, then in Week 10. I'm also really really really tempted to include Mantis also, so maybe instead of an Introduction, I will just have a few notes on the front page, and that will give me time for Mantis. I can decide that when I think about doing Mantis research in Week 12.<div><br /></div><div>I have several books (actual printed books and Kindle books) which focus specifically on the hare, and then there are of course hare stories scattered throughout the different story collections. For this blog post, I'm going to focus on doing a book inventory, and I'll do the same later also for Tortoise, Spider, and Mantis.</div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe someday I can do a whole book of Tiny Tales just with African trickster hares/rabbits! That would be incredibly cool. For this project, though, I can just pick out a few favorite stories to put on the webpage. Having this index will be useful for future reference:</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Clay. African Short Stories - Adventures of Kalulu the Hare.</i></b></div><div>These stories come from Zambia.</div><div>How Kalulu the Hare outwitted the Farmer and his Son </div><div>How Kalulu the Hare outwitted all the other Animals </div><div>How Kalulu the Hare outwitted the Fierce Lion </div><div>Kalulu Hides his old Mother who later saves the Chief`s Life </div><div>Kalulu, Lion and the Earless Lamb</div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-style: italic;">Worthington. The Little Wise One</b>.</div><div><i style="font-weight: bold;">Worthington. Kalulu the Hare</i>.</div><div>These stories are from Zimbabwe.</div><div>THE LITTLE WISE ONE:</div><div>The hare and the tortoise.</div><div>The hare, the lion and the fleas.</div><div>The hare and the baboons.</div><div>The hare, the buffalo, the lion, and the bees.</div><div>The hare, the lion, the man, and his dogs.</div><div>The hare, the old man, the bullfrog, the otter, the crocodile, and the hippopotamus.</div><div>The hare, the otter, the old man, and his daughter</div><div>The hare, the lion, the hyena, and the tortoise.</div><div>The hare and the warthog</div><div>The hare and the python</div><div>The hare, the chickens, the dog, and the snake</div><div>The hare, the secretary-bird, the owl, the hyena, and the crocodile</div><div>The hare, his mother, and his master</div><div>The hare, his father-in-law, and the tortoise</div><div>The hare, the lion, the antelopes, and the old woman</div><div>The hare, the honey-bird, and the elephant</div><div>The hare and the frog, their mother-in-law, and her daughters</div><div>The hare, the chickens, the goats, and the rats</div><div>The hare at the waterhole</div><div>The hare and the buffalo</div><div>KALULU THE HARE:</div><div>The hare, the polecat, and the peaceful village.</div><div>The hare and his son, the lion, the snake, and the mouse.</div><div>The hare, the lion, and the ass</div><div>The hare, the hippopotamus, and fire</div><div>The hare, the hyena, and the calabash of fat.</div><div>The hare and the lion and the game of swallowing great stones</div><div>The hare, the hyena, the goat, the leopard, and the basket of meal</div><div>The hare and the wildcat</div><div>The hare and his son</div><div>The hare, the lions, the monkey and hare's spotted blanket</div><div>The hare, the elephant, the lions</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Pitcher. The Mischief Maker: African Tales of Nogwaja the Hare</i></b>.</div><div>The stories are from southern Africa.</div><div>Nogwaja and elephant.</div><div>Nogwaja-in-the-moon</div><div>Serpent the Great</div><div>E'Seittunga the Brave</div><div>Owl teaches spider a lesson</div><div>Foolish fish</div><div>Kori Bustard and scorpion</div><div>Puuuuull, Giraffe!</div><div>Nogwaj's plan for wild dog</div><div>Bat escapes</div><div>Lion roars</div><div>Leopard's spotted coat</div><div>Bees sting!</div><div>First woman can make plans too</div><div>Don't touch the cub</div><div>The party</div><div>Nogwaja's warm coat</div><div>Chameleon and the precious parcel</div><div><br /></div><div><i style="font-weight: bold;">Heady. Jambo, Sungura: Tales from East Africa</i>.</div><div>The scarecrow</div><div>The tug of war</div><div>The lion's threats</div><div>The bee tree</div><div>The bean pot</div><div>How the hare learned to swim</div><div>The wonderful tree</div><div>The baboon and the hare</div><div>Son of the long one</div><div>Trust your friends</div><div>The talking house</div><div>Wanja's choice</div><div>The ostrich chicks</div><div>The greedy hyena</div><div><br /></div><div><i style="font-weight: bold;">Savory. Lion Outwitted by Hare and Other African Tales</i>.</div><div>These are Bantu tales from the Matabele people, from Malawi and Kenya, Zulu tales, and Xhosa tales.</div><div>How the lion was outwitted by the hare</div><div>Why the hippopotamus left the forest</div><div>The hare's rope trick</div><div>The tortoise who dared the hare</div><div>How the bat made his choice</div><div>The bushbuck's visitor</div><div>The lion and the little brown bird</div><div>How a poor man was rewarded</div><div>The lazy son</div><div>The bird with the golden legs</div><div>The tortoise and his boast</div><div>The song of the doves</div><div>The moon girl</div><div>The magic bowl and spoon</div><div>When the husband stayed home</div><div>The wonderful water pot</div><div>What the fish promised</div><div><br /></div><div><i style="font-weight: bold;">Savory. The Little Wise One: African Tales of the Hare</i>.</div><div>The stories come from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Botswana, Transkei, Swaziland, and Malawi.</div><div>The lion, the hare, and the fleas.</div><div>Musengi the hare</div><div>The hyena, the goat, the leopard, and the hare</div><div>The hare and the baboons</div><div>The hare and the elephant</div><div>The hare, the hippopotamus, and the fire</div><div>The hare and the warthog</div><div>The hare's revenge</div><div>The voice that is heard by all and answered by none</div><div>The fishing camp</div><div>The hare and his mother</div><div>The lion and the village woman</div><div>The punishment of greed</div><div>The hare's beast of burden</div><div>The hare and old man baboon</div><div>The hare, the otter, the old man, and his daughter</div><div>The tortoise outwits the hare</div><div>A bride for the hare</div><div>How the hare lost his tail</div><div>The hare, the hyena, and the cooking fat</div><div>The hare, the lion, and the eland</div><div>The peaceful village</div><div>How the leopard got his spots</div><div>The jealousy of Kalulu the hare</div><div>The antelopes' convention</div><div>The hare's rope trick</div><div>A race between the tortoise and the hare</div><div>The hare outwits the lion</div><div>The great famine</div><div>The lion, the hare, and the hyena</div><div>The waxen horns</div><div>Mmutla and Phiri</div><div>The rogue hare</div><div>The hare and the tree spirit</div><div>The lion, the hare, and the honey</div><div>Mvundlazana the hare</div><div>The cloud princess</div><div>Nkalimeva</div><div>The clever one outwitted</div><div>The king's chief messenger</div><div>Kalulu and his wife</div><div>The weasel and the baboon</div><div>The double-faced friend</div><div>The perfidy of Kalulu the hare</div><div>The boasting party</div><div>The hare who sat aloof</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97gTxJSXkvqCcTHAKTskFxkbnbLcVEnVnMAVi63rs8Cbbxf_xOIGId16ksoxczXAL00xtyez-M-jgrvde-3BXi0TjrQxXwwdb7fvnPv6y9WyL_a2FPJDEpe-q2xfyJgzxz-ZeG9WJTWo/s419/PXL_20210206_210502593.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97gTxJSXkvqCcTHAKTskFxkbnbLcVEnVnMAVi63rs8Cbbxf_xOIGId16ksoxczXAL00xtyez-M-jgrvde-3BXi0TjrQxXwwdb7fvnPv6y9WyL_a2FPJDEpe-q2xfyJgzxz-ZeG9WJTWo/s16000/PXL_20210206_210502593.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I'll also list here below some individual stories from public domain texts online that I've bookmarked:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.tz1pcq&view=1up&seq=436">Rabbit and Fox</a>. Yoruba tale in which fox ultimately tricks rabbit. (This same collection also has a rabbit-and-tarbaby story.)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t02z1fh0j&view=1up&seq=195&q1=hare">King Chameleon</a>. Tale from Ghana. Chameleon outwits rabbit in a race.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=152">Hare and the lion cubs</a>. A Banyanja story (this whole collection of stories from Malawi is really nicely done!)</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=155">The cunning hare</a>. Also a Banyanja story, take-my-place with jackal.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=158">Tiger and the trap</a>. Hare is the judge. Also Banyanja.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=162">The animals and the mealies</a>. Both hare and tortoise in this one. Also Banyanja.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=167">The hare, the man, and their mothers</a>. A "let's kill out mothers" story. Also Banyanja.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=169">The man and the hare</a>. Also Banyanja.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=183">The hare and the dzimo (wildcat)</a>. Also Banyanja.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=187">The hare and the elephant</a>. Also Banyanja.</div><div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=189">The hare and the elephant</a>. Same title; different story. Also Banyanja.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=190">The hare rides the lion</a>. Also Banyanja.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000103835389&view=1up&seq=195">The boy and the hare</a>. Also Banyanja.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081991030&view=1up&seq=51">The rabbit and the lion</a>. This has the original text and English translation. Kalulu! The story is from Zimbabwe.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081991030&view=1up&seq=55">The bushbuck and the leopard</a>. Kalulu is in this story also; from Zimbabwe.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081991030&view=1up&seq=59">The chief and the rabbit</a>. Infumu Na Kalulu! Also from Zimbabwe.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081991030&view=1up&seq=77">Lord rabbit</a>. Kalonga Kalulu! Also from Zimbabwe.</div><div><br /></div><div>Central African stories in Madan's Kiungani book:</div><div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/kiunganiorstoryh00john/page/134/mode/2up?q=rabbit">III. The Rabbit and the Elephant (1)</a>. From Lake Victoria Nyanza. </div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/kiunganiorstoryh00john/page/140/mode/2up?q=rabbit">IV. The Beasts and the Rabbit</a>. Also from Lake Victoria Nyanza. </div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/kiunganiorstoryh00john/page/164/mode/2up?q=rabbit">VIII. The Leopard and the Rabbit</a>. Also from Lake Victoria Nyanza. </div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/kiunganiorstoryh00john/page/170/mode/2up?q=rabbit">XII. The Lioness, the Rabbit, and the Dog</a>. Also from Lake Victoria Nyanza. </div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/kiunganiorstoryh00john/page/172/mode/2up?q=rabbit">XIII. The Rabbit and the Elephant (2)</a>. Also from Lake Victoria Nyanza. </div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/kiunganiorstoryh00john/page/182/mode/2up?q=rabbit">XVII. The Hyaena and the Rabbit</a>. From the Region of Lake Nyassa. </div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/kiunganiorstoryh00john/page/188/mode/2up?q=rabbit">XIX. The Elephant and the Rabbit (3)</a>. Also from the Region of Lake Nyassa. </div><div><br /></div></div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015029926030&view=1up&seq=214&q1=rabbit%20leopard">The rabbit and the leopard</a>. Bantu story from Uganda.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156012/page/n239/mode/2up?q=rabbit">Tbe rabbit, big snake, and the ground squirrel</a>. West African (Vai) story.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.tz17zd&view=1up&seq=109">The story of the coney</a>. Central Africa / Nyassaland.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000099905097&view=1up&seq=124">The rabbit and the python</a>. Umbundu tale from Angola.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000099905097&view=1up&seq=141">The rainmaker</a>. Tortoise bests rabbit in this story. Umbundu tale from Angola.</div><div><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000099905097&view=1up&seq=147">The rabbit and the leopard</a>. Also an Umbundu tale from Angola.</div><div><br /></div><div>(keep working through <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/laurakgibbs?query=%23project%3AAfrican+rabbit+%23tales+NOT+%23Spring2021Bib">Diigo starting here</a>)</div></div><div><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-43392782059038248952021-02-06T00:46:00.004-05:002021-02-06T00:46:50.614-05:00Storybook Plan: Hare, Tortoise, Anansi<p>I set up my <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/home">website</a> and <a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2021/02/comment-wall-trickster-tales-from-africa.html">comment wall</a>, and I'm excited about the hare statue that I found for the website homepage.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPnCDytSfWDKs6QxeD8Z7cHvKWDaVmLB-KgBag1ctVyQB7ge3XwPmRnO6984wgjOn9sJ24ybIVTisPPiXj-MFJ6OXh5u4IAFtf2rE3UqXIBEM_6MpZv0skghpQfyvJsujzxoq2TOqdYLM/s1770/Screen+Shot+2021-02-05+at+8.58.02+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="1770" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPnCDytSfWDKs6QxeD8Z7cHvKWDaVmLB-KgBag1ctVyQB7ge3XwPmRnO6984wgjOn9sJ24ybIVTisPPiXj-MFJ6OXh5u4IAFtf2rE3UqXIBEM_6MpZv0skghpQfyvJsujzxoq2TOqdYLM/w400-h235/Screen+Shot+2021-02-05+at+8.58.02+PM.png" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></p><p>I'm going to stick with my plan of doing stories about Hare, Tortoise, and Spider, and I created an <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/introduction">Introduction page</a> for taking notes, even though I'm not going to try to write the Introduction until I'm done and can discuss the specific stories that I'm working with.</p><p>I had planned out a lot of this already (<a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2021/01/project-topic-research-african.html">previous post</a>), and I'll start drafting some stories for the Week 4 Story Lab Research option; I might even write some stories. I'll use the Week 4 Story Lab to plan my Hare stories, so I'll be ready to write my Hare page for the Week 5 project. </p><p>Here are some source notes for the three tricksters:</p><p><b>Hare</b>. I've got my Phyllis Savory book, and I may find Hare stories in other Savory books, and Worthington's Kalulu book, plus Clay's Kalulu book (Kindle). Also: The mischief maker: African tales of Nogwaja the hare.</p><p><b>Tortoise</b>. I've got my Ajapa the Tortoise book and Todd's Tortoise, and I've ordered a copy of Courlander's Ijapa book. I think I remember tortoise in Owomoyela's book, and also in Alao's book.</p><p><b>Anansi</b>. I've got the Rattray book (PDF), plus Cronise's Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider, and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales, and Donkor's Spiders of the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance, Lewis-Coker's Motherland and Sierra Leone Anansi Stories, and also Appiah, Badoe, and Gyesi-Appiah.</p><p>I'm really excited to be working on this while I'm working on Brer Rabbit at the same time as a separate project. Tricksters everywhere! I can rely on Bascom for good leads on the parallel stories.</p><p>Here's the Courlander book that I just ordered! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCgzhwwXafelvQLRoUskQae4KTGS5T-fFS3UhyTz3tkmJCmBhRRcEMJ-sRImuq9jVgO7M0qpvsnd6VfpMGKxLWCEDKuJlk4PBWSuehEWEvrzSIXPWpyHZF4vUucPor72UhqxCLm99rsDM/s550/1272257982.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCgzhwwXafelvQLRoUskQae4KTGS5T-fFS3UhyTz3tkmJCmBhRRcEMJ-sRImuq9jVgO7M0qpvsnd6VfpMGKxLWCEDKuJlk4PBWSuehEWEvrzSIXPWpyHZF4vUucPor72UhqxCLm99rsDM/s16000/1272257982.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-19012301713004205912021-02-06T00:21:00.006-05:002021-02-21T17:49:25.387-05:00Week 5 Story: More Aesop's Tricksters<p>I did <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2021/01/week-3-story-aesops-tricksters.html">Aesop for Week 3</a></b>, and I decided to do more Aesop this week, focusing on tricksters again! This time there are five stories: the trickster succeeds in the first two, but you will see that the trickster gets thwarted in the remaining three fables.<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><i>The Cat and her Neighbors</i></b></span><b><i> </i></b></p><p>An eagle, cat, and sow lived together in a tree: eagle on top, sow at the bottom, and cat in-between.<br />The cat said to the eagle, "Beware: the sow is digging up the tree's roots in order to topple it and eat your chicks."<br />To the sow she said, "The eagle craves your little piglets."<br />The eagle dared not leave her chicks unguarded, nor did the worried sow venture forth to find food, so they both finally starved to death.<br />The cat and her kittens then had the whole tree to themselves, and they fed on the chicks and piglets.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/thummel/10_EAGLE_CAT_SOW.png" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;" width="400px" /><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Fox with a Short Tail</i></b></p><p>A fox had gotten trapped in a snare, and lost his tail as a result.<br />He then ran into some other foxes. "My brothers, where are you going?" he asked.<br />"We're on our way to the lion's palace," they replied.<br />"The lion's palace? I was just there, which is where I learned about the latest fashion: short tails!"<br />When they heard this, the other foxes immediately cut off their tails too.<br />Then the fox burst out laughing, glad to have these partners in his misery. "They may not have shared my danger," he said, "but now they share my shame."</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/tenniel/foxwithouttail.png" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;" width="400px" /><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Boy Who Cried Wolf</i></b></p><p>The shepherd's boy grew bored tending the sheep and decided to play a trick.<br />"Help!" he shouted. "There's a wolf!"<br />The villagers came running, and he just laughed. "There's no wolf," he said.<br />A few weeks later, he did it again, laughing when the villagers came running.<br />Then, not long afterwards, the wolf really did attack the flock!<br />"Help!" he shouted. "There's a wolf!"<br />But no one came running.<br />He shouted even louder. He screamed. He shrieked.<br />No one came. "He won't fool us a third time," the villagers said.<br />So the wolf ravaged the flock, killing all the sheep.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/barlow/folger/pix/059.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;" width="400px" /><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Sly Sheep and the Wolf</i></b></p><p>The wolf was hungry, but dogs guarded the flock, so he disguised himself as a sheep. <br />He then approached a sheep and said sweetly, "Come with me, dear. I'll show you some lovely grass."<br />"You're just a weak sheep like me," the sheep replied. "If you were a big, strong wolf who could protect me from enemies, then I'd go with you."<br />"Ah, that's just what I am!" said the wolf, casting off his disguise.<br />"You look very strong," laughed the sheep, "but just in case, I'll call the sheepdogs to come with us."<br />The wolf turned tail and ran!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/herford/31_WOLF%20IN%20SHEEPS%20CLOTHING.png" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;" width="400px" /><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Crow and the Fox, Partners</i></b></p><p>A crow and a fox were partners. When they got hungry, the fox would put on a monk's habit, kneel, hold a missal in his front paws, lift his eyes heavenward, and pray reverently. <br />Then the crow would call the chickens to confess their sins. "It's a miracle!" the crow would shout. "A most holy fox will hear your confessions and intercede with God on your behalf."<br />The hens wanted to follow the crow, but this time a rooster stopped them. "Silly hens!" he said, suspecting foul play. "You cannot trust a crow, and a fox even less so."</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="0113 De vulpe et corvo" border="0" height="489" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjvs_nA68J7U2a1fCRC-AiyEQc2ZvyUub8BXwjlqRX4dbxD4bvKXX9a-NgS1jNgq_YG6l91yyz0dxAJ7f1i0yvsPhFU6-1cVNgrmu3-8OX99Z2Vhu9b1G3CxiZBFGCB4O_f2tFH9IR2Il4DIlyU8VUY6a3EdnvjK9lO00dKRw=s0-d" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #114499; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; position: relative;" width="400" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Author's Notes and Image Information</i></p><p><b><i>The Cat and her Neighbors</i></b>. This is an example of a trickster who succeeds: the eagle and the pig both believe the lies that the cat tells them. This is <a href="http://aesopsbooks.blogspot.com/search/label/index%3A%20Perry%20488">Perry 488</a>. The illustration is by <a href="http://aesopsbooks.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-eagle-cat-and-sow.html">Eksergian</a>. </p><p><b><i>The Fox with a Short Tail</i></b>. This is an unusual example where a fox is tricking his fellow foxes instead of some other species. As in the previous story, this trick depends upon a lie and the fools who believe it. This is <a href="http://aesopsbooks.blogspot.com/search/label/index%3A%20Perry%20017">Perry 17</a>, and the illustration is by <a href="http://aesopsbooks.blogspot.com/search/label/index%3A%20Perry%20017">Tenniel</a>. (Yes, the same Tenniel who famously illustrated <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>!)</p><p><b><i>The Boy Who Cried Wolf</i></b>. This is probably one of the most famous Aesop's fables, and it shows a trickster's downfall: the trick succeeds the first time, second time, but not a third time. Although, in terms of saving the sheep, it probably would have been better if the villagers had believed the boy, despite his past behavior! This is <a href="http://aesopsbooks.blogspot.com/search/label/index%3A%20Perry%20210">Perry 210</a>. The illustration is by <a href="http://aesopsbooks.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-shepherds-boy.html">Barlow</a>. </p><p><b><i>The Sly Sheep and the Wolf</i></b>. This is the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing... but the sheep is not so easily fooled! This is a nice example of the trickster tricked, where the wolf, confident that he is tricking the sheep, is instead the one being tricked. This is not in Perry; it comes from the wonderful French fabulist Desbillons. The illustration is by Herford. </p><p><b><i>The Crow and the Fox, Partners</i></b>. I like fables about pretend-piety like this one! Sometimes fake piety succeeds; sometimes not, as in this fable: the hens are ready to believe, but not the rooster (although in other fables the rooster is not so wise, and in other fables the hens are perfectly able to take care of themselves). This fable is not in Perry; it's from a medieval story collection called the Speculum Sapientiae (The Mirror of Wisdom), and that's also the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/sets/72157624859989413/">source for the illustration</a>.</p><p><br /></p>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-69421416128005749472021-02-05T21:00:00.004-05:002021-03-18T17:15:57.685-04:00Comment Wall: Trickster Tales from Africa<p> You can find the website here:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/africantricksters/home">Trickster Tales from Africa</a></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I changed the coverpage now that I have several pages done!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihzt_BzVSBc0sLoDBteaSs_-XnyNjpDX9Q4anEKN-ddP9OCbqIUfxWhdMLf_2ycJIWQmUt3XqXQlhb5QeunlMz88jJozcyrzcBSSOVN7OufqobBvgQB8aPEvGRCmplZQZk0SuyPfRn7fg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1832" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihzt_BzVSBc0sLoDBteaSs_-XnyNjpDX9Q4anEKN-ddP9OCbqIUfxWhdMLf_2ycJIWQmUt3XqXQlhb5QeunlMz88jJozcyrzcBSSOVN7OufqobBvgQB8aPEvGRCmplZQZk0SuyPfRn7fg/w400-h197/Screen+Shot+2021-03-18+at+5.14.29+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-50478482508680691212021-01-24T16:29:00.000-05:002021-01-24T16:29:17.778-05:00Famous Last Words Week 3... ready for the semester!I've been inspired by some students who got started early and who are already working on Week 3, so I decided to keep on working ahead too! I just finished Week 3, where I did some Aesop trickster stories (having this be the summer of tricksters is going to work out great!), and also made up a plan for a Storybook of African Tricksters... I am really excited about that. I wrote a book of Anansi stories from the Caribbean, and right now I'm working on a book of Brer Rabbit stories... and now with this Storybook project, I can start to assemble the stories that show how Anansi and Brer Rabbit are African tricksters whose stories came to the Caribbean and to the Americas from Africa. So much of African culture was crushed by slavery, but these stories could not be stopped. The Storybook format is perfect for me to get to write about Anansi and Rabbit and also Tortoise who shows up as a trickster in African American stories also. I was thinking I wouldn't have time to do a Storybook project and be a student in class, but it is totally worth it; I feel really lucky to get a chance to share these stories as the Spring semester takes shape.<div><br /></div><div>And I also managed to finish the Mahabharata book; I am really pleased with how it turned out! The website is in good shape also. <b><a href="https://microfables.blogspot.com/2020/11/tiny-tales-from-mahabharata.html">More information here</a></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRaKS5fVECmLacqc1TNzEJOUmMhj9Efo23KbdsxFuvAzTarOR4LWK5U_HQn6XVBnOik1VQWCt6V76a-hXpK5rdIYxEdX_uqGd38X1AHc_sO1pLltym-KlneXNLmWKWYehXBgjOGwfy4A/s1894/Screen+Shot+2021-01-24+at+4.07.43+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1894" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRaKS5fVECmLacqc1TNzEJOUmMhj9Efo23KbdsxFuvAzTarOR4LWK5U_HQn6XVBnOik1VQWCt6V76a-hXpK5rdIYxEdX_uqGd38X1AHc_sO1pLltym-KlneXNLmWKWYehXBgjOGwfy4A/w400-h175/Screen+Shot+2021-01-24+at+4.07.43+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Some students in the Indian Epics class have already been reading the Ramayana Tiny Tales book, and it seems to be working well, so I am very happy about that!</div><div><br /></div><div>This week is going to be really busy because it's the first week of class, which is always hectic, and I have two Zoom things to do on Thursday; having them both on the same day is kind of intimidating, but maybe that makes it easier too. At least I only have to have Zoom stress one day this week! One of them is a discussion group on ungrading with some OU faculty members (I know a couple of people in the group, but most of them are people I do not know), and then I'm doing a microfiction workshop with the students in the #NetNarr class this semester that Mia Zamora and Alan Levine are teaching. I've known Mia and Alan for forever, but this is the first time I've done a Zoom thing with their students: I'm not even sure if Mia's class is a classroom class this semester or not, but Alan is in Canada, so he and I are Zooming in, either into Mia's classroom or into the Zoom space where so much of college is happening now. I'm not a fan of Zoom, but it will be fun to meet Mia's students and talk to them about the wonderful <b><a href="https://microfables.blogspot.com/2019/10/microfiction-fall-2020-anthology.html">microfiction book</a></b> that the students wrote in these classes last Fall.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8fUZ02ARUlvOn2lC0CYDT2ujTnLafX0g_X6Qtxn9dOKHNXaS1jiRd26FCpZUBdqGGMeiCjKqwBwB3_cc-pu-zWyXDMfFqIA2nJiznpw-kLekY3lwTBelAYnVqlGcI2EgprDT0H_oKpw4/w400-h240/Screen+Shot+2020-12-13+at+2.30.36+PM.png" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 17.82px;" /></div><div><br /></div><div>I hope we will write a book this Spring too. Thinking optimistically, I already made a cover. :-)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDPgAOaQAAIUh3smGgRSNYinxkPDB-ELqRegI-f2UDSORosBwNKPGwdjPRNXabGPL0sJ3pniWp0JR5QY2UL5d6vKZvEr-2xiiVuLJE21SfuUsE-QCWrprPkfxeuNYxcPlFaz-BhI7QHS4/s2048/Spring+2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" width="400" data-original-width="1283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDPgAOaQAAIUh3smGgRSNYinxkPDB-ELqRegI-f2UDSORosBwNKPGwdjPRNXabGPL0sJ3pniWp0JR5QY2UL5d6vKZvEr-2xiiVuLJE21SfuUsE-QCWrprPkfxeuNYxcPlFaz-BhI7QHS4/s16000/Spring+2021.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-26263279610977218612021-01-24T15:46:00.004-05:002021-01-24T15:46:34.250-05:00Pinterest Tech Tip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_xnLMZKUYiPSEMEHmxqKohyphenhyphenEcpp1hyphenhyphena60jGY3DNxtvHvMu59dR7m8lfvE-8Si8TN1z0H_DYCiXLrBNx9UuKqPBpnnG8f3qZZu6hD-rxl486EQkqUJ_j9amGj8TqhQzrH6RMUVU9aIK8/s960/pinterests-new-logo-2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="960" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_xnLMZKUYiPSEMEHmxqKohyphenhyphenEcpp1hyphenhyphena60jGY3DNxtvHvMu59dR7m8lfvE-8Si8TN1z0H_DYCiXLrBNx9UuKqPBpnnG8f3qZZu6hD-rxl486EQkqUJ_j9amGj8TqhQzrH6RMUVU9aIK8/w400-h105/pinterests-new-logo-2.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>I used to use Pinterest a lot, but then when their RSS got all messed up, I had stopped using it... but with the Ramayana and Mahabharata Tiny Tales book, it seemed like a good way to put the images on display, I made boards for them, and now I am going to try embedding the Ramayana Board here in my post to see if that still works like it used to.<div><br /></div><div>Here is the board: <b><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/laurakgibbs/tiny-tales-of-the-ramayana/">Tiny Tales of the Ramayana</a></b>. The share button doesn't have embedding options, but I found the <b><a href="https://developers.pinterest.com/tools/widget-builder/?">Widget Builder</a></b>. I chose to embed a board, then chose the square size, and pasted in the board address. It looks like it worked! </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><script async="" defer="" src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script><a data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/laurakgibbs/tiny-tales-of-the-ramayana/"></a></div><br /><br /><br />So I did the <b><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/laurakgibbs/tiny-tales-of-the-mahabharata/">Mahabharata board</a></b> also:<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-pin-do="embedBoard" data-pin-board-width="400" data-pin-scale-height="240" data-pin-scale-width="80" href="https://www.pinterest.com/laurakgibbs/tiny-tales-of-the-mahabharata/"></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-17951111718657326762021-01-24T15:21:00.001-05:002021-01-24T15:21:05.979-05:00 Project Topic Research: African Trickster Tales<p>Originally I was thinking about Tricksters in the African diaspora (<b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2021/01/topic-brainstorm-tricksters.html">brainstorm</a></b>), building on what I have learned about Brer Rabbit, Anansi, and Tortoise in the Americans and Caribbean... but now I think I want to use this project to start building up a collection of stories from African traditions themselves, directly, to go along with the stories I have been working on in the Americas and Caribbean. So, here are my three:</p><p><b>Anansi</b>. Obviously a page of Anansi stories will be part of the project, and I can rely on the Anansi stories in the <b><a href="http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/search/label/Unit%3A%20West%20Africa">West African unit</a></b> for starters... the pot of wisdom is in there, plus quest for endowments (told as a "why the stories are Anansi stories), plus the magic cooking pot, and more.</p><p><b>Kalulu the Hare</b>. I don't have any Kalulu stories as such in the UnTextbook, but I have two fantastic Kalulu books I can use as sources: Savory's The Little Wise One and Worthington's Kalulu The Hare.</p><p><b>Tortoise</b>. There are some trickster tortoise stories in the <b><a href="http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/search/label/Unit%3A%20Nigeria">UnTextbook Nigeria unit</a></b>, plus I have some book resources also: Todd's Tortoise the Trickster: And Other Folktales from Cameroon and Baumann's Ajapa the Tortoise: a Book of Nigerian Folk Tales.</p><p>Three pages plus an Introduction should make for a good project, although I will probably just write a placeholder Introduction for now and jump right into the stories, and then write up an Introduction where I can show specific American/Caribbean parallels for the African stories.</p><p>I am excited to get started! :-)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxBL3RX-Ae1DvQdYszbgB905jvlldalAxe7RTdqky5LXU5N_QjpTXJ_-g7TQQrBGuBy7KP4py8MNg1APlPwiST_wsN53jBN5CGvsWs09mFhXB5TqD-y1JW1IlfcMh2P0WdGCtU7XM65yE/s500/51-g1pZzGPL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxBL3RX-Ae1DvQdYszbgB905jvlldalAxe7RTdqky5LXU5N_QjpTXJ_-g7TQQrBGuBy7KP4py8MNg1APlPwiST_wsN53jBN5CGvsWs09mFhXB5TqD-y1JW1IlfcMh2P0WdGCtU7XM65yE/s16000/51-g1pZzGPL.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1624205718121734803.post-39801060163632654452021-01-24T13:13:00.005-05:002021-01-24T13:19:34.861-05:00Week 3 Story: Aesop's Tricksters<p>I've decided to focus my work this semester on tricksters, so I wrote a some tiny trickster stories for Week 2, and now I'm going to settle into writing trickster stories every week. I'm curious to see what I learn by looking specifically for tricksters every week.</p><p>The obvious place to start this week is with Aesop, so I chose the Aesop with Milo Winter's illustrations. Here are some tricksters I found there, retold in 100-word style.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Kid and the Wolf</i></b></p><p>A young goat sprouted horns. Feeling brave and bold, he wandered away from the flock, looking for fresh grass to eat.<br />A hungry wolf saw the kid wandering alone, far from the flock.<br />"You'll make a nice little feast!" he growled as he grabbed the kid.<br />"I'm glad to oblige, Mister Wolf," said the quick-thinking kid. "Let's sing and dance to celebrate your feast!"<br />The kid started singing and whistling and clicking his heels. Enchanted by the music, the wolf also started to dance, letting go of the kid, who laughed and ran back to the safety of his flock.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/rackham/lupus-et-haedus-saltans_4909077033_o.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;" width="400px" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Rooster, Dog, and Fox</b></p><p>Rooster and Dog decided to travel the world together. At night, Rooster flew up in a tree, while Dog slept down below. Each dawn, Rooster crowed, just like back on the farm.<br />Fox heard Rooster crowing. "I've found my breakfast!" he thought, running towards the sound.<br />"Hello, Rooster!" Fox shouted. "I see you're a stranger here. Let's get acquainted! I'll be your new friend."<br />"Gladly!" said Rooster. "Go tell the doorkeeper below to let you in."<br />Fox eagerly ran to the tree, where Dog was waiting. He tore Fox to pieces, and then shouted to Rooster, "Thanks for the breakfast!" </p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/weir/gallus-vulpes-et-canis_3677133306_o.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;" width="400px" /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>The Eagle and the Crow</b></p><p>An eagle swooped down from a lofty cliff and snatched a sheep from the flock.<br />When the crow saw this, he wanted to do the same thing. "I'm strong! I've got wings! And a sheep would be something very nice to eat!"<br />So, squawking loudly, the crow swooped down and landed on a sheep, but instead of carrying the sheep away, all he did was get his feet tangled in the wool. He couldn't even fly away!<br />The shepherd saw the crow and laughed. "You thought you were an eagle," he said, "but now you know: you're only a crow."</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/crane/38_600.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;" width="400px" /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>The Owl and the Grasshopper</b></p><p>The owl likes to sleep during the day, which is when the grasshopper likes to sing.<br />"Please be quiet," the owl asked politely. "I'm trying to sleep."<br />But the grasshopper just laughed and sang even more loudly.<br />Then the owl said, "Since I cannot sleep, let's enjoy a drink together! I have a bottle of wine that my mistress Athena gave me. As your divine music is worthy of Apollo, I'll share it with you."<br />Flattered, the grasshopper entered the owl's house.<br />And as soon as he did so, the owl ate him up, and then went promptly to sleep.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/stickeny/110_OWL_GRASSHOPPER.jpeg" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-align: left;" width="400px" /></p><p><br /></p><p>1. The Kid and the Wolf. This is <a href="http://millefabulae.blogspot.com/2010/08/illustrated-haedus-saltans-et-lupus.html"><b>Perry 97</b></a>. The illustration is by <a href="http://aesopsbooks.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-kid-and-wolf.html"><b>Rackham</b></a>; it shows the wolf playing a flute, but I couldn't figure out how to get the flute into this tiny version of the story. This trickster uses his wits to escape from an enemy who is far stronger than he is, but not very smart.</p><p>2. Rooster, Dog, and Fox. This is <a href="http://millefabulae.blogspot.com/2010/09/illustrated-gallus-canis-et-vulpes.html"><b>Perry 252</b></a>. The illustration is by <a href="http://aesopsbooks.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-dog-cock-and-fox.html"><b>Weir</b></a>. This story has the nice twist of the trickster-tricked: the fox is trying to trick the rooster, but in his greedy hunger, the rooster is able to trick the fox in the end.</p><p>3. The Eagle and the Crow. This is<b> <a href="http://millefabulae.blogspot.com/2010/11/illustrated-corvus-aquilam-imitans.html">Perry 2</a></b>. The illustration is by <a href="http://aesopsbooks.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-eagle-and-crow.html"><b>Crane</b></a>. This is an example of "foolish imitation" which is not exactly a trickster story, but it is a common element in trickster stories: either the trickster gets in trouble for trying to imitate something beyond his powers (as here), or else a foolish character imitates the trickster and the trick fails. In the original story, the shepherd clipped the crow's wings and took it home as a pet for his children.</p><p>4. The Owl and the Grasshopper. This is <a href="http://millefabulae.blogspot.com/2010/09/illustrated-cicada-et-noctua.html"><b>Perry 507</b></a>. The illustration is by <a href="http://aesopsbooks.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-owl-and-grasshopper_8.html"><b>Bull</b></a>. The story is found in the Roman poet Phaedrus, and you can see how he uses a bit of mythology woven into the story, mentioning both Athena (the owl was Athena's special bird) and also Apollo. The owl knows how to use both flattery and greed to trick the grasshopper.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p>Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com2