{"product_id":"9781907256332","title":"Yoruba Legends","description":"The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West \u003cbr\u003eAfrican communities. They are united by Geography, History, \u003cbr\u003eReligion and most importantly their Language. Many years ago, before the advent of the West African slave trade, the \u003cbr\u003eYoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, all the way inward and down to Angola in South West Africa. Today this is not the case.\u003cbr\u003eThe legends and fairy stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. \u003cbr\u003eThey relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of Nature-Why Women have Long Hair, \u003cbr\u003eHow the Leopard got his Spots, the Three Magicians, the Boa-\u003cbr\u003eConstrictor, How the Elephant got his Trunk and more. These stories grew from the imagination of the people. We read these folk-tales for their quaintness and humour, for their sympathy with Nature, and because we find in them the ideas and ideals, \u003cbr\u003enot just of one man, but of a race of people.\u003cp\u003eIN modern times we have begun paying close attention to folklore - old tales, not invented by one man, but belonging to the whole people; not written down, but told by parents to their children, and so handed on for hundreds of years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe legends express primitive notions of right and wrong. As a rule, the wicked are punished and the good rewarded; and that, \u003cbr\u003ewe feel, is as it should be. We may weep at the death of rascally \u003cbr\u003eTortoise, but we may also feel that he somehow has deserved his fate!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA percentage of the net sale from this book will be donated to \u003cbr\u003eEdgbarrow School in Crowthorne, Berkshire to augment fundraising for their Ghana Project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abela Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040021692656,"sku":"9781907256332","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781907256332_p0.jpg?v=1763617865","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781907256332","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}