English - African Village Stories By The Moonlight . The Cunning Cat
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folktales and myths serve as a means of handing down tradition and customs from one generation to the next. In Africa. For several generations, stories from Africa have traditionally been passed down by word of mouth often after a hard day's work, the adults would gather the Children together by moonlight around a village fire and tell stories. This was traditionally called Tales of moonlight. Usually the stories are meant to prepare young people for life and so each story taught a lesson of moral in the African folk tales. The stories reflect the culture where diverse types of animals abound. The animals and the birds are often accorded human attributes. So it is not uncommon to find animals talking singing, all demonstrating other human characteristics such as a greed, jealousy, honesty. The setting in many of the stories exposes the reader to the land from the climate within that region of Africa references are often made to different seasons such as dry or rainy season and the various effects on the surrounding vegetation and animal life. The sly cat and he was strong young cat. He got many mayes, the mice were afraid of him, but in time he grew old and could not catch mice anymore. One day he decided to play a trick on the mice. He lay on his back and did not move at all. A mouse saw him and thought that he was dead. She ran to her friends and said the cat is dead, Let us dance and play and all the mines began to dance and play. They were very happy. They danced and they danced around. the cat and the cat did not move. Then one of the mines jumped on the cat's head. Look at me, come near all of you. The bad cat is dead, let his dance on his head. But suddenly the cat jumped up and caught the silly mouse. The other mayes ran away as quickly as they could mice. Don't forget never believe a cat.