African Rainforest Folklore

The African folk story was about a boy who was hungry, and set up a trap in the rain forest to catch an animal. Instead he caught a spirit child. He was so hungry he didn't realize he was eating a spirit. Then a spirit woman began looking for the spirit child, who was her son. She soon found he was dead, and she began to scream. The men of the boys village, were irritated with the screaming,and shot her.

I think the story was interesting because it was sort of shocking, and something kept happening, so it kept my attention.

The story taught about African culture because it spoke of spirits, especially those that the Africans believed existed in nature. It also showed how the African culture changed because of imperialism, because in the story the men of the village shot the spirit with guns.

I think this could apply to me, because we all do things without realizing it, like the boy, and many of us are impatient and easily annoyed by others, like the village men.