VASSILISSA THE CUNNING AND THE TSAR OF THE SEA - A Russian fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 192

By Anon E. Mouse

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 192
In this 192nd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the tale of “Vassilissa The Cunning And The Tsar Of The Sea.”
One year, a peasant sowed a crop of rye and had a bountiful harvest. So poor and hungry were the animals that the field mice, and the birds raided his barn and cleared his harvest. Too late to sow another he took his gun and went to the forest to hunt some game. He spied a beautiful eagle with a broken wing and raised his rifle to his shoulder. Before he could fire the eagle spoke to him saying “Kill me not, good hero.” Astonished that a bird could speak engages in conversation with the bird of prey. The eagle makes him promise to feed him for three years, three months, and three days while he heals in return for abundant wealth...................……. Download and read this story to find out what happened after the three years, three months, and three days was up. Read of amazing adventures and the quest he went on aided all the while by the eagle.

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.

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: May 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826083827

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VASSILISSA THE CUNNING AND THE TSAR OF THE SEA

A Russian Fairy Tale

Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

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Abela Publishing, London

2016

VASSILISSA THE CUNNING AND THE TSAR OF THE SEA

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2016

Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

ISSN 2397-9607

Issue 192

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An Introduction to Baba Indaba

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