African Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean Islands
2002; Indiana University Press; Volume: 33; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2979/ral.2002.33.3.182
ISSN1527-2044
Autores Tópico(s)Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
ResumoA poor man goes to the seaside and takes a fishing boat (pirog). For a week he fishes. Nothing. He rows out to a little rock (lilot), where he catches the Queen of the Sea. He is about to strike her when she says, "Lift your eyes, look at God (Bondyé). I'll give you a goat. You won't have to come to the sea any more. You'll say, 'By the virtue of the goat the queen of the sea gave me, I want to see everything I need!'" On the way home he is intercepted by his komer (godmother of his son). Knowing he has no such thing as a goat, she takes him a little food, invites him to her house, and while he's asleep swaps his goat for one of hers.
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