STORIES MY GRANDMA TOLD ME

       Tortoise and the LizardDedicated to:GOD & ALL GRANDMA'S in the world.Trust but don't trust too much"                   ~?~Once upon a time in the Animal kingdom. Tortoise was going for an evening stroll when he met the lizard on the way.They exchanged pleasantries and Tortoise asked the lizard where he was heading to.The lizard said he is taking a stroll whereas he knew he was actually heading for the grandmothers house for his night meal but he didn't want to tell Tortoise. Tortoise said "Ok, that's good, I am strolling around too. So, lets do it together." The next day, they both met at the same spot again, same time and Tortoise asked lizard same question and he gave him the same answer. This time around, Tortoise told him he was going to visit his friend the

The Elephant and the Bush cow are bad friendsOnce upon a time,the bush cow and the elephant were always bad friends, and as they could not settle their disputes between themselves, they agreed to let the head chief decide.The cause of their unfriendliness was that the elephant was always boasting about his strength to all his friends, which made the bush cow ashamed of himself, as he was always a good fighter and feared no man or animal.When the matter was referred to the head chief, he decided that the best way to settle the dispute was for the elephant and bush cow to meet and fight one another in a large open space. He decided that the fight should take place in the market-place on the next market-day, when all the country people could witness the battle.When the market- day  arrived, the bush cow went out in the early morning and took up his position some distance from the town on

                STORY OF THE OBEDIENT GIRL         Once upon a  time, there were two widows who were neighbors. Each had a daughter to raise up. The first widow was nice, kind and beautiful. Her daughter was just like her, lovely inside and out and humble. The second widow was ugly. Her daughter was even uglier than she was.          They were very  mean, proud and wicked. The daughter of the second widow was also very disobedient and spoilt. She never listened to instructions but the first girl was very obedient.        One day, the first widow who was also the poorer of the neighbors asked her daughter to go fetch some water from the stream. The daughter was very hungry because she had not eaten all day but she didn’t complain.      Instead she took her water-pot an

Hi lovelies ☺️, sorry for the late post. TORTOISE AND THE KING'S MAGIC DRUMOnce upon a time, Okoro was an ancient king of Ama-aba. He was a peaceful man, and did not like war. He had a wonderful drum, the property of which, when it was beaten, was always to provide plenty of good food and drink.So whenever any country declared war against him, he used to call all his enemies together and beat his drum; then to the surprise of every one, instead of fighting the people found tables spread with all sorts of dishes, fish, foo- foo, palm-oil  soup, cooked yams and okros, and plenty of palm wine for everybody.In this way,he kept all the country quiet and sent his enemies away with full stomachs, and in a happy and contented frame of mind.There was only one drawback to possessing the drum, and that was, if the owner of the drum walked over any stick on the road or slept over a fal

WHY THE SUN AND MOON LIVE IN THE SKYLong time ago, the Sun, Moon and Water were the best of friends.At that time, the Sun and Moon, who were married, lived on the earth.The Sun went to visit the Water, almost every day, but the Water never returned the visits.One day, the Sun asked,"Water, my friend, why is it that you never come to visit?"Water replied, "Sun, I would very much like to come to visit. But you home is not big enough for me and all of my people. Were I to come visit, there would be no room left for you and your lovely wife, Moon."Water then told Sun, "If you want me to visit you, you will have to build a very large house. But I warn you that it will have to be very, very large, as my people are numerous and take up a lot of room."The Sun was overjoyed that his good friend Water wanted to come visit."Do