A LEGEND OF KNOCKMANY - A Celtic/Irish legend of Finn MacCumhail: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 65

By Anon E Mouse

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 65
In Issue 65 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Celtic/Irish Legend of Finn MacCumhail. Finn and his men are at the Giant’s Causeway trying to build a bridge from Ireland to Scotland. While they certainly tried, did they succeed? This is the story of what happened all those years ago……

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. HINT - use Google maps.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Apr 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826071053

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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 his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have to recite the story back to