Mamma's black nurse stories : West Indian folklore / by Mary Pamela Milne-Home.

By: Contributor(s): Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, MDCCCXC 1890Description: x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 131 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : colour illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Mamma's black nurse stories.DDC classification:
  • 398.21 Ja Mil
LOC classification:
  • GR120 .M66 1890
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I: -- Anansi and alligator -- The lady and the bull --The snake and the king's daughter -- Whence they came --The story of Anansi and tiger -- Brother death -- The snake -- The affassia -- Goat and Anansi -- Anansi, his wife, and tiger -- The story about rat and cat -- Anansi, tiger, and goat -- Garshan bull -- The lady and the little doggie -- De king and de peafowl -- Part II: -- The lion, goat, and baboon -- The little child and the pumpkin-tree --The king and the ant's tree -- The girl and the fish -- The dancing gang -- Anansi and baboon -- Anansi and the lion -- Anansi and Quanqua --The brother and his sisters -- Why the Jack Spaniard's waist is small -- The man and the doukana tree -- The ear of corn and the twelve men.
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Some stories reprinted from G.W. Dasent's Popular tales from the Norse.

Part I: -- Anansi and alligator -- The lady and the bull --The snake and the king's daughter -- Whence they came --The story of Anansi and tiger -- Brother death -- The snake -- The affassia -- Goat and Anansi -- Anansi, his wife, and tiger -- The story about rat and cat -- Anansi, tiger, and goat -- Garshan bull -- The lady and the little doggie -- De king and de peafowl -- Part II: -- The lion, goat, and baboon -- The little child and the pumpkin-tree --The king and the ant's tree -- The girl and the fish -- The dancing gang -- Anansi and baboon -- Anansi and the lion -- Anansi and Quanqua --The brother and his sisters -- Why the Jack Spaniard's waist is small -- The man and the doukana tree -- The ear of corn and the twelve men.

Opie collection of children's literature, C 1041

English.

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