THE PHYNODDERREE - A Fairy Tale from the Isle of Man: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 146

By Anon E Mouse

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 146
In this 146th story in the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Manx fairy tale of Kitty Kerush and her fairy lover Udereek. Udereek comes across Kitty sewing and spinning in her garden and is so enraptured that he returns every day, eventually falling in love with her. So enamoured he can no longer keep his presence and his love a secret and he reveals himself. In time Kitty, too, falls in love with Udereek. But their love for one another is doomed.……. Download and read this story to find out exactly why their love is doomed and what happened when the Fairy King finds out about where and with whom Udereek has been spending his time.

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.

33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Apr 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826079608

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PHYNODDERREE

A Manx Fairy Tale

Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

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Abela Publishing, London

2016

THE PHYNODDERREE

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2016

Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

ISSN 2397-9607

Issue 146

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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 the Wenxoxi Indaba, word for word. In this manner he learned the stories of the Zulu nation.

In time the Wenxoxi Indaba grew old and when he could no longer see or hear, Baba Indaba became the next in a long line of Wenxoxi Indabas. So fond were the children of him that they continued to call him