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List of Folk Tales
| The tortoise and the lizard | Lizard shows tortoise a hidden cave filled with yams but tortoise gets greedy. |
| The tortoise goes to a feast in the sky | The tortoise disguises himself as a bird to attend a feast. Then he gets greedy. |
| The dog hides his mother | A "how the tortoise broke his back" folk tale. |
| How the tortoise became bald | The tortoise used to have hair but lost it all through his own greed. |
| Ijapa and the medicine soup | The tortoise seeks help from the medicine man for his wife. But greed turns to tragedy. |
| The tortoise captures the elephant | The tortoise promises to capture the huge elephant. Other hunters have failed. |
| The creation of the world: A Yoruba myth | The myth of how the world was created according to the Yorubas in West Africa |
| The tortoise and the drum | The tortoise receives a special drum from the land of spirits. |
| The Tortoise and the Elephant | Another version of the story where the tortoise captures the elephant. |
| The Tortoise, the Dog and the Farmer | Another example of the tortoise exhibiting his greed and getting into trouble for it. |
| The Lost Heir | A king dies without an heir. But a heir does exist somewhere deep in the forest. |
| The three brothers and the pot of porridge | Three traveling brothers spend the night at an old woman's hut, but one of them steals her porridge |
| The tortoise and the wisdom of the world | The tortoise collects all the wisdom of the world in a gourd, yet he is not the wisest |
| How the chimpanzee?s bottom got swollen and red | Monkey thinks he can be king of all animals but Tortoise soon puts him in his place. |
| How the Chipmunk got its stripes | The Chipmunk and Squirrel were once identical. This story tells how the Chipmunk got his stripes |
| Kiigbo Kiigba and the helpful spirits. | A stubborn man disobeys the law and does not stay home when spirits are out |
| Two sisters and an old man | A west African cinderella story - about a girl and her wicked step sister |
| Oluronbi | A folk tale about a young woman and a foolish promise she made |
| Ananse and the pot of wisdom | No one person can have all the wisdom in the world. Story by Rev Peter E Adotey Addo |
| Kweku Ananse outsmarts himself | Kweku Ananse gets greedy and misses out on a longer-term gain |
| The Tortoise and the Princess who never speaks | The king promised half his kingdom to whoever could make his daugher speak |
| A bird steals Iyawos baby | One wife comes into wealth and another wife gets greedy. |
| The farmers son becomes a hunter | A farmer and his wife are dismayed when their son decides to become a hunter |
| The monster who had fire | A monster swallows children who come to him in search of fire |
| How Olomuroro made children thin | A singing monster steals food from children |
| The stolen soup aroma | A poor woman eats eba with aroma from her neighbor's egusi soup |
| Tortoise and the igbako | Tortoise is given a magic igbako during famine. |
| Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears | Mosquito tries to woo most beautiful Ear |
| Tortoise and Hare ? A West African tale | Tortoise challenges Hare to a race |
| One man and his precious cow | One man has three sons and a precious cows. But he treasures the cow over his sons. |
| Article: A review of Magic Cellar, Africa's 1st 3D animation based on folktales. | |
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