Western Sahara · Folktales and oral traditions
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Western Sahara
- Tales
- 2
- Dated records
- 2
- Tales linked to multiple countries
- 0
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Two Sahrawi tales associated with Western Sahara take different approaches to travel. Shreisher Dahbu is mistaken for someone else while searching for her brothers. Yoja encounters a motorcycle while carrying firewood and makes sense of it through his own experience. The pin marks an approximate cultural region, and the dates refer to the written sources.
Tales in the Atlas
Shreisher Dahbu Looks for Her Brothers
2009 · Joanna Allan · From Snow White to Shreisher Dahbu · AILIJ 7 (1), p. 19 · Ana Tortajada’s telling
Yoja, the Donkey and the Motorcycle
2010 · Fernando Prieto Cebrián / Antonio Jiménez Trigueros · Yoja y el hombre de la ciudad · Fundación de Cultura Islámica
Tales found across countries
No tales linked to multiple countries are listed for this country yet.