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The Three Women Who Brought Nenpetro Back

In short: A dream, a route and healing plants in Loango. Three extraordinary objects do the work in Malawi.

The Three Women Who Brought Nenpetro Back · Three acts of help, three cooking pots FAIRY TALE ATLAS · № 202 The Three Women Who Brought Nenpetro Back A dream, a route and healing plants in Loango. Origin The story associated with the Loango area on the Congo coast appears in Dennett’s 1898 collection. In 1906, Werner compares it with a telling from Domasi in Malawi. Atlas record 1898 First appearance Exact date unknown SIGNATURE MOTIF Three acts of help, three cooking pots Reach¹ 2/10 Suggested age² 8+ Member rating No votes yet 2 records · 2 countries or regions blackhorsestories.com

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Origin and tradition

The story associated with the Loango area on the Congo coast appears in Dennett’s 1898 collection. In 1906, Werner compares it with a telling from Domasi in Malawi.

Ndoza’ntu dreams what happened to the hunter Nenpetro. Songa’nzila finds the way and Fulla Fulla revives him with plants. Whose help should count most? The Loango telling asks with three pots of food. In the telling from Domasi, Malawi, three brothers use a far-seeing glass, a flying mat and a medicine.

Dated records and sources

  1. 1898 · Loango coast, Republic of the Congo
    Richard Edward Dennett · Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort · III · Published collection
  2. 1906 · Domasi, Malawi
    Alice Werner · The Natives of British Central Africa · The Story of a Chief, pp. 247–249 · Published collection

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