Eswatini · Folktales and oral traditions
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Eswatini
- Tales
- 2
- Dated records
- 2
- Tales linked to multiple countries
- 0
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Eswatini’s page opens with two stories identified as Swazi tales in the 1908 collection by Sarah F. Bourhill and Beatrice L. Drake. A song sets a herd in motion in one story. A river changes a princess’s appearance in the other. The pin gives an approximate location for the Swazi storytelling tradition.
Tales in the Atlas
The King’s Son and the Magic Song
1908 · Sarah F. Bourhill / Beatrice L. Drake · The Story of the King’s Son and the Magic Song · Fairy Tales from South Africa, II
The Moss-Green Princess
1908 · Sarah F. Bourhill / Beatrice L. Drake · Nya-nya Bulembu; or, the Moss-green Princess · Fairy Tales from South Africa, XVII
Tales found across countries
No tales linked to multiple countries are listed for this country yet.