Benin · Folktales and oral traditions
Documented transfer
Related telling or shared motif
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Benin
- Tales
- 1
- Dated records
- 1
- Tales linked to multiple countries
- 0
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Lègba has several roles in Benin’s Fon vodún narratives. The story of four instruments presents one of them through a test that combines music and movement.
Tales in the Atlas
Lègba and the Four Instruments
1958 · Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits · Dahomean Narrative · p. 140
Tales found across countries
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