Fairy Tales from South Africa
Author: first_name: Mrs. E. J.
last_name: Bourhill
Language: English
Year: 1908

The stories in this collection come from the oral traditions of the people from Swaziland, Matabeleland (Ndebele  people) and Zululand in South Africa. The authors, Mrs. E. J. Bourhill and Mrs. J. B. Drake, or more properly the collectors and editors of the stories assert that:  "All the stories in this book are real Fairy Tales,  just as much as Jack the Giant-killer or The Sleeping Beauty.  By this I mean that they are traditional, handed down by word of mouth.  Nobody knows how old they are,