Excerpt from Fairy Tales From South Africa
All the stories in this book are real fairy tales, just as much as "Jack the Giant-Killer" or "The Sleeping Beauty." By this I mean that they are traditional, handed down by word of mouth. Nobody knows how old they are, or who told them first. But little Kafir children sit round the fire at night and hear them from their old grandmother, and sometimes - but very very seldom - white people are allowed to hear them too. You see, the Kafirs are afraid white people would laugh at them, and so they will only begin if they are quite sure you are really interested.
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