Day eighteen

"Spider and the Honey-tree" by Phillip Martin. This story was about a girl that was good at picking fruit for her family. The fruit that she picked was always bigger, sweeter, and tasted better. One day this boy named Spider asked her to show him where she finds her fruits. The girl said yes, but she knew that he was only using her. So she showed him where she found her oranges, bananas, and honey. Once the girl got to the honey tree, Spider jumped through the hole and ate all the honey not leaving her any. After it was all gone he was so full and fat that he could not get out the tree. He was stuck. He never once told the girl thank you or anything. So once he asked her to go get help she smiled and walked off and she told him that she was going to go get bigger and better fruit.

"Black Snake and Eggs," by Phillip Martin. This story was about a chicken that had twelve eggs and every time she left to go and get food for her other chicks one or two would disappear. So she told her friend rooster and rooster said that it was probably Black Snake that was taking her eggs. Well this happened everyday until she was down to her last egg. So her and rooster set up a trap. The next day came and Black Snake came to take her last egg and it would not crush in his throat and his air supply was blocked. He died slowly. He did not know that the egg that time had been hard boiled. Now he is not taking anybody else's eggs.

"The Lion's Whisker," This story was about a man and woman that was in a marriage. Both of the men were unhappy. So the woman went to the oldest man of the village and told him her story. He said that there is a potion that he could make to make her husband love her again, but the only thing he was missing was a whisker from a lion. So the woman went out to get the whisker and she failed the first day. She continued to fail for four weeks. But then she finally got it and brought it to the man. The man told her that the potion would not last forever, but since she was brave and clever enough to get a whisker from a lion she should be able to fix her marriage. Well she did and they lived happily ever after.

I think that all nigerian folktales teach a lesson. They teach you how to find deep with in your self to solve your problems. I think that people that write nigerian folktales try and teach lessons that can help people everyday with all types of problems. Whether it is with family, work, or etc.