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#FaustianFriday
He is Obatala, an Orisa of the Yoruba (Nigeria, Benin, Togo). Drunk on palmwine, he created humans with disabilities and so is the patron of the disabled and people with genetic disorders or congenital defects. His devotees are forbidden palm-wine.
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Late #FairyTaleTuesday post!

Mermaids you say! No African mythology and folklore without the many creatures of African waters!

"The Runaway Princess" has a few like the big fish, Chipfalamfula, and the Mapa'in so beautifully illustrated by @Art_of_Achalugo !

#MythologyMonday
In a Nyimang (Sudan) folktale, there was a time when rabbits and humans hated each other. Humans didn't die at that time but a rabbit fed a man the poisonous roots of a tree. The unsuspecting man ate the roots, slept for two days and then died.
🎨: Chenthooran

#FairyTaleTuesday
In a Tswana (Namibia) folktale, when Ekishi the Monster kills her parents and eats Nehova, her only hope is her brother Nankelo. He hunts Ekishi down, kills it and cuts Nehova out of its big toe.

🎨: Libby Costandius

#FairyTaleTuesday

In anthills and on mountain tops,
Underwater, underground!
In forests, caves, up in the sky:
That’s where our spirits can be found!
Up and down and all around,
That’s where our spirits can be found!

🎨: Mino Yasue

#WyrdWednesday
When hunters Oulani and Oulamba realize the old woman in the bush is the Buffalo of Do, the animal they’ve been sent to kill, they are shocked! Their alliance with her set in motion the chain of events which lead to the birth of Sundiata Keita of the Mali Empire.

#FairyTaleTuesday

“The Wonderful Healing Leaves” a story from this week’s #AnansiBookClub read “How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?” by Julius Lester is full of magical items! Healing leaves, flying carpets, special rings and more!
Read here: https://t.co/hCQr6B3DEn

#FairyTaleTuesday
First, he steals crocodile’s eggs, then water from Gbongosso and fire from Baaoue. Tere, the divine trickster of the Manja and Banda (CAR) is usually up to no good! But when he challenges an old woman to fight, he learns an important lesson.

🎨: Rodney Wimer

#MythologyMonday
In “The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks” a Maasai (Kenya, Tanzania) story, a lonely, cubless lioness claims ostrich’s chicks as her children. No bird or animal in the forest is willing to risk denouncing the lioness…except for mongoose.

🎨: Ib Ohlsson

#FairyTaleTuesday
In “A Bird Steals Iyawo’s Baby” a Yoruba (Nigeria) folktale, Iyale, a greedy senior wife gets her comeuppance when she loses her baby to a magical bird. Iyawo, the younger wife makes out with bags of treasure and her healthy baby.