The Tortoise With The Pretty Daughter
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Nigerian North American (General) North American (US Upper Midwest - Fargo, Minnesota)Transcript
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the tortoise with a pretty daughter Nigerian folk tale. There was once a king who was very powerful. He had great influence over the wild beasts and animals. Now the tortoise was looked upon as the wisest of all the beasts and men. This king had a son named Epi, in Who to whom he gave 50 young girls as wives. But the prince did not like any of them. The king was very angry at this. He made a law that if any man had a daughter who was finer than the princess wives and who found favor in his son's eyes, the girl herself, her father and her mother should be killed. Now about this time the tortoise and his wife had a daughter who was very beautiful. The mother thought it was not safe to keep such a fine child as the prince might fall in love with her. So she told her husband that her daughter ought to be killed and thrown away into a bush. The tortoise, however, was unwilling, and he hit her until she was three years old. One day when both the tortoise and his wife were away on a farm. The king's son happened to be hunting near his house, and so I bird perched on top of a fence around the house. The bird was watching the little girl and was so entranced with her beauty that he did not notice that the prince was coming. The prince shot the bird with his bow and arrow and it dropped inside the fence. So the Princeton, the servants, to gather it. While the servant was looking for the bird, he came across the little girl and was so struck with her form that he immediately returned to his master and told him what he had seen. The prince been broken down the fence and found the child and fell in love with her at once. He stayed and talked with her for a very long time, until at last she agreed to become his wife. He then went home but concealed her from his father the fact that he had fallen in love with a beautiful daughter of the tortoise.