Title: West African folk-tales /
Authors: Barker, W. H.; Sinclair, Cecilia.
Date: 1917
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Company,
Physical description: 183, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., photo. ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: Thirty-six tales from Africa's Gold Coast, include several "Anansi tales" as well as stories about many African animals.
Contents: I. Anansi, or spider, tales -- II. Miscellaneous tales.
Notes: Boards faded at edges, head and tail of spine; spine worn at ends; d.j. soiled and torn; spine soiled; e.p. soiled and foxed. Presentation copy signed by author, Cecilia Sinclair on fep. Introduction paints a picture of the way in which these stories are transmitted when the "short twilight of the tropics brings all occupations except talking to an end". Story IV. has an analogy to the Scandinavian tale of the Sampo; Story IX has an analogy to the Arabian Nights story about the accidental death of the sultan's hunchbacked jester; Story XVII is analogous to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's "Monsieur Nongtongpaw", and the motif of throwing various objects behind one to deter pursuit as is Maria Morevna and East of the Sun, West of the Moon, appears in story XXII.
Subject headings (LCSH): Folklore--Africa, West