Script: Folktales are stories that are often passed down by older people telling the story to their children. In Africa, these stories were told around a campfire after a hard day of work. Most folktales did not have happy endings, but they did have a moral or a lesson to be learned.
Are you ready to hear an African Folktale? Lean back and relax. Close your eyes and picture yourself on an African savannah. You are sitting around a campfire ready for a story.
This story is called, The Chief’s Feast.
The chief sent out messengers to announce that he would give a feast and asked that each guest bring one jug of PawPaw juice. One man wanted to attend very badly, but he had no PawPaw juice to bring. His wife suggested that he buy the PawPaw juice, but he said, "What?! Spend money so that I can attend a feast that is free?"
He thought to himself, "If hundreds of people were to pour their PawPaw juice into the chief's pot, could just one jug of water spoil so much PawPaw juice?"
The day of the feast came. Everyone dressed in their finest clothes and went to the house of the chief. Each man, as he entered the chief's compound, poured the contents of his PawPaw juice into the chief's large earthen pot. The man also poured his water there and then greeted the chief.
The chief then ordered his servants to fill everyone's cup with PawPaw juice. The man was impatient, because his mouth watered for some sweet PawPaw juice. At the chief's signal, all the guests put their cups to their lips and were surprised that what they tasted was WATER. Each guest had thought that his ONE jug of water would not spoil a great pot of good PawPaw juice, but they were wrong.
Now open your eyes and think about what lesson was learned by the guests at the Chief’s Feast. Perhaps you have found out that playing silly tricks on someone may end by making you feel silly instead.
I hope you enjoyed this African Folktale as it was interpreted by me from the Motherland Nigeria website.
African Folktales Podcast
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Script: Folktales are stories that are often passed down by older people telling the story to their children. In Africa, these stories were told around a campfire after a hard day of work. Most folktales did not have happy endings, but they did have a moral or a lesson to be learned.Are you ready to hear an African Folktale? Lean back and relax. Close your eyes and picture yourself on an African savannah. You are sitting around a campfire ready for a story.
This story is called, The Chief’s Feast.
The chief sent out messengers to announce that he would give a feast and asked that each guest bring one jug of PawPaw juice. One man wanted to attend very badly, but he had no PawPaw juice to bring.
His wife suggested that he buy the PawPaw juice, but he said, "What?! Spend money so that I can attend a feast that is free?"
He thought to himself, "If hundreds of people were to pour their PawPaw juice into the chief's pot, could just one jug of water spoil so much PawPaw juice?"
The day of the feast came. Everyone dressed in their finest clothes and went to the house of the chief. Each man, as he entered the chief's compound, poured the contents of his PawPaw juice into the chief's large earthen pot. The man also poured his water there and then greeted the chief.
The chief then ordered his servants to fill everyone's cup with PawPaw juice. The man was impatient, because his mouth watered for some sweet PawPaw juice. At the chief's signal, all the guests put their cups to their lips and were surprised that what they tasted was WATER.
Each guest had thought that his ONE jug of water would not spoil a great pot of good PawPaw juice, but they were wrong.
Now open your eyes and think about what lesson was learned by the guests at the Chief’s Feast. Perhaps you have found out that playing silly tricks on someone may end by making you feel silly instead.
I hope you enjoyed this African Folktale as it was interpreted by me from the Motherland Nigeria website.
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