Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Translator’s Introduction
• 1. The Giant Bird Mothemelle
• 2. Wolf and Jackal and the Beautiful Girl
• 3. The Outcast
• 4. Fenya-fenyane
• 5. Hen, Hawk, and the Needle
• 6. Roaqo, the Woman Who Ate People
• 7. Tortoise and Dove
• 8. The Guilty Woman
• 9. Monyohe, the Great Snake of the Deep Waters
• 10. Maliane and the Water Snake
• 11. Molaetsane
• 12. Obe, the Monster of the Dark Canyon
• 13. The Dove, the Heron, and Jackal
• 14. The Mother-in-Law and the Clear Water
• 15. The Milk Tree
• 16. Jackal and Hen
• 17. The Whirlwind and the Land of the Half-men
• 18. Nanabolele, Who Shines in the Night
• 19. Sheep and Baboon
• 20. The Woman with the Big Thumbnail
• 21. Tsananapa
• 22. Masilo, Masilonyane, and the Old Woman
• 23. The Bride of Chief Bulane
• Appendix: Index of motifs, of tale types, and comparable African folktales
• Bibliography

About the Author

Minnie Postma was born in the Orange Free State on a farm bordering Lesotho. She grew up speaking the Sesotho language as well as Afrikaans, and as a child she heard many of the tales she has recaptured so vividly here. Through her many publications she h