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Reading Notes: Nigeria Part B

For the second half of this weeks reading, I continued with the Nigerian unit. I really enjoyed the first story of the lightning and the thunder. This story personified lightning and thunder and told about their encounters. I think this is such a great story because again it gives a reasoning for why certain phenomenon happens in the world, but the actual science behind this is something I find fascinating. So, I think its cool that they obviously thought this scientific phenomenon was also of interest enough to create a story behind its explanation.

I wondered what a bush cow was in the second reading and if it was different than a normal cow that we are familiar with so I did some research. So not what I was expecting! This is what it looks like:
Image Info: Bush-Cow


I also really enjoyed the story of the two brothers and the pet cock. It seems to me as if this story was presented in order to teach a lesson that no one should own a pet cock. I am unsure if this is actually the true message behind the story, but it is interesting that the cock comes up so much in this culture's stories. They should not have them as pets, according to this story, because they only cause trouble.

I found it interesting the story about why they bury their dead, too. It was similar to the other stories in the sense that it involved animals and a deal that made this occurrence make sense in their culture.

Bibliography: Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria by Elphinstone Dayrell, Nigeria Unit

Image Info: Lightning

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