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Cunning Checkmates Force: Folktales From Kenya |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM |
| Author: Jan Knappert |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 1,927 Words, 10,747 Characters |
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The lion Mungambu owned a bull. In those same days, the hyena Mbiti owned a cow. One morning, while Mbiti was still asleep, the cow gave birth. The lion happened to come by. When he saw the calf, he decided to take it for himself. At his home, he rubbed the behind of his bull with the cow's blood. Then Mungambu awoke the hyena. "My animal has given birth to a calf," declared the lion.
"Impossible!" cried Mbiti. "Bulls do not give birth." But the lion persisted, shouting angrily: "My bull has given birth to this calf!"
Unconvinced, the hyena proposed that they go to the village council for arbitration. So the village elders were gathered together.
When the elders arrived to examine the evidence, they found the calf, which had found its mother, actually suckling at her udder. In sp...
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...it came out of the water. All of them hit their target. Then, as the monster passed his hiding place, the brother threw his spear and hit it in the belly. Repeatedly, he thrust his spear into Zimwi's body. Finally, it died. Monsters are very hard to kill.
This last story is from the Digo people. It tells us that even the most fearsome enemy can make fatal mistakes and eventually be struck down.
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