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    MEE-AN AND THE MAGIC SERPENT

    Mar 01, 2020 3 minutes
    retold by Pat Betteley
    illustrated by Jesse Tise

    Characters:

    Narrator 1

    Narrator 2

    Narrator 3

    Mee-An: Beautiful but vain young woman

    Assa: Mee-An’s younger sister

    Mother: Mee-An and Assa’s mother

    Oumar: Shepherd 1

    Amadou: Shepherd 2

    Serpent

    Balakononifin: Black Bird of the River

    Long ago, there lived a beautiful but vain girl named Mee-An. She was looking for the perfect husband without a single scratch or scar on his body. She lived on the edge of the desert along with her parents and younger sister,

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