SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOODS - A Classic Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 157

By Anon E Mouse

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 157
In this 157th story in the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the perennial fairy tale about The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods also known by it’s shorter bane Sleeping Beauty. After a long, long wait the Queen falls pregnant and gives birth to a beautiful daughter. All but one, the wicked witch, is invited to the christening. She arrives unannounced and places a curse on Beauty. In time the curse comes to fruition and Beauty falls into a deep, deep sleep. Unable to find a cure, Beauty is placed in a crystal bower in the woods, hence our story’s name....……. Download and read this story to find out how the curse was broken.

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 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826079981

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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