Drew Myth & Folk

The story that drew my attention in the African Tales came from the Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria. The story is  The story of the Lightning and the Thunder.   This story was very interesting in that it put a story to lightening and thunder. The Story rendered a plot that the sons destruction ended in banishment from earth. And even though the destruction is not right in front of you can still see its affects from a far. In this then mothers discipline when she raises her voice is what we hear as thunder today. And the destruction being don’t by the ram is what we view as lightening today. (Picture is of the ram in causing his destruction with lightning, Source: Lightning )

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