Excerpt from Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia, Vol. 2
The present volume contains an English translation of the Tigre text which appeared in Volume I of these Publications; a few notes and explanatory remarks have been added here. How the material presented in these two volumes was gathered has been explained in the Preface to Volume I. It will suffice, therefore, to offer here a few general remarks on the literature which is made known for the first time in these pages.
As the title says, the reader will find translations of tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigre tribes. A great many of the tales refer, like those of the other Abyssinian tribes, to animals. Some of them may have come from countries farther east, lastly from India; but I believe that most of them are indigenous to the Abyssinian soil. Similar stories are found all over the world wherever primitive people living in close contact with nature begin to reflect about the life of animals and to ascribe their own feelings and thoughts to them. It would be an interesting task to compare the stories published here with those published from other parts of Abyssinia by Professors Reinisch and Guidi and by Drs. Conti Rossini, Mittwoch and others, and, again, with those of other peoples. The "Tale of a Hen" (No. 14, p. 18), e. g., is very widely spread.
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