Author: Richard M. Dorson (editor)
Year: 1972
Location: personal library
Most of the volume consists of essays but there are some Folklore Texts included also as follows:
1. Sayid Hurreiz: Sudan
The Punishment of the Elephants
Abu Zeid
2. Bai T. Moorse and Jangaba Johnson: Liberia
Land Turtle and Leopard
Who is the Greediest of the Four?
3. Mona Fikry-Atallah: Ghana
Chief Tests His Wife's Fidelity
The Filial Son
Men Deceive Women
A Beautiful Girl Turns into a Leper
Penis Accepts to Bury Mouth
How Penis and Vagina Got Together
It is the Hunter that Brought Men and Women Together
Wiser than the Chief
Know Your Relatives or Else You'll Be Mistaken for a Slave
Brain Wins over Strength
A Flase Accusation is More Painful than Fire
Father, Son, and Donkey
How Friendship between Hawk and Fowl Ended
Black Man is Ungrateful
Which of the Three Men Was the Most Powerful?
Muhammed Escapes to Medina
4. Charles Bird: Mali
Excerpt from Sunjata Epic
The Little Bird
Ncaaro
Da Monson and Samanyana Basi
The Vulture
5. Philip Noss; Cameroun
Wanto's Search for Food
Rabbit and the Carnivores
The Toad and the Frog
The Two Brothers
6. James W. Fernandez: Gabon
Drug Visions
7. Harold Scheub: South Africa
Sikhuluma
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