Reading Notes: The Fish and the Leopard's Wife


The story that drew my attention in the African Tales came from the Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria. The story is The Fish and the Leopard’sWife.  This was a very interesting story where the main theme I got from it was do not betray those who are close to you, because they will not directly hurt you but will make you pay for a long time. In the story the leopard was friends with the fish. But the leopard would often time go out of town. Whenever the leopard was gone the fish would go make love with his wife. The leopard came home early one trip and found this. He did not want to deal with the fish directly, so he asked King Eyo to deal with it. The king made it so that fish could only live in the water and if they left the water they would die, as well on top if a fish was caught it was always eaten. This story was interesting in that the entire fish community had to pay for the wrong doing of the one fish.


(Picture is of a leopard, Source: Leopard

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