The tortoise hides his beautiful daughter Adet from a king whose law condemns any girl fairer than the prince's wives — until the prince himself settles the matter; the bat's trick on the bush rat sends him into the night for ever; King Effiom takes the Cock's daughter Adia unen for his favourite wife, and jealousy engineers her disgrace; the fish betrays his friend the leopard and is banished to the water; and a mouth-rinsing ordeal at the palaver exposes the bat, who hides by day for shame ever after. A selection of tales from Dayrell's collection. Source: Elphinstone Dayrell, Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa (1910), public domain; modernised in-house edition.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
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