GENTLE DORA - A Czech Folk Tale for children: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 99
By Anon E Mouse
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In Issue 99 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Czech Folk Tale of a simple, young devil who commits a transgression and is condemned to wandered over the earth for seven years. He decides that it would be a mighty clever thing for him to marry Gentle Dora, who had already nagged five husbands to death. But the devil finds that being a husband is not such a simple thing, especially when you’re the husband of Gentle Dora.…… Download and read this story to find out what happened to the devil.
Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".
Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps.
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Introduction
Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.
In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.
In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was