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The Rat and the Frog Text and Illustrations by Annelie van Steenbergen Translation by Greg Suffanti You don’t expect rats to go on a pilgrimage, with knapsack and pilgrim’s staff, on the way to a holy goal? And yet, the first sentence of Aesop’s third fable is: “One day the rat went on a pilgrimage.” […]
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The Frogs Who Asked for a Leader By an Antambahoaka from Mananjary[1] Retold by Marcel Reyners – Translation into English by Greg Suffanti As we know, frogs live in a pond. They have no leader, rule themselves and enjoy the greatest possible freedom. One day they gathered in large numbers and decided to choose a
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Ananse and Crocodile Ewe/ Akan people story from the Volta region in Ghana Told by Kofi Dorvlo Ananse and the crocodile were friends and they contributed their quota to the development of the village in which they reside. The inhabitants in the village found crocodile to be good at block laying and entrusted most of
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A Chinese legend and an ancient text from the Zhuangzi Retold and reimagined with a bit of literary license by Heidi Muijen and translated by Greg Suffanti The ancient Zhuangzi text below contains a conversation between the philosophers Zhuangzi and Huizi …. Zhuangzi and Huizi had not seen each other for quite some time. They
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