Extra Credit Reading Notes: The Rabbit and the Animal Wizard


Plot:
  • Clever rabbit when to Muzimu, the animal wizard, to get more knowledge
    • Wise already - not wise enough, great one
    • bring live snake
    • picked up a stick before going to the home of the snake
      • challenged the snake to prove it was longer than the stick
        • slipped a string around the snake's neck
          • If you can fool the snake, you already have all the sense you need
          • No, wants more
    • bring swarm of bees
      • found gourd - cut hole in bottom and cleaned it out
        • added honey and tied it to long pole
        • bees attracted to honey - rabbit closed hole
        • song
        • Muzimu - sense shall become more and more everyday
          • white spot between ears to represent the sense you possess in your head
          • all make rabbits carry it to this day
            • change to it being carried down to his descendants. 
    • Note: the Wizard from the Unnatural Mother story cursed them and said that they would only be free if they succeeded in helping a lost soul - were scared of failing because they had in the past. 


Image information: Rabbit Tricking the Snake from Animal Fables from the Dark Continent by A.O. Stafford.
Bibliography: The Rabbit and the Animal Wizard in Animal Fables from the Dark Continent by A.O. Stafford.

Comments

  1. Laura GibbsNovember 11, 2019 at 9:17 AM

    Just a quick note to say you made my day with this one, Karissa: I smiled as soon as I saw that picture pop up in the class blog stream just now. Here is Brer Rabbit in the American version of that African story, with snake tied with a rope, but I told the version with the stick since that is the one I like better! :-)
    Brer Rabbit and Brer Snake (picture is down at the bottom)

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