11- Lizard and the Tortoise

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• STORIES MY GRANDMA TOLD ME   15 - Man who never lied

  Hi lovelies ☺️.According to the title, can you actually believe that there is a man who never lied. Let's find out as we read.STORY OF THE MAN WHO NEVER LIEDOnce upon a time, there lived a wise man by the name of OKWUEGBU. He never lied. All the people in the land, even the ones who lived twenty days away, knew about him.The king heard about Okwuegbu and ordered his subjects to bring him to the palace. He looked at the wise man and asked:" Okwuegbu, is it true, that you have never lied?"" It's true.""And you will never lie in your life?"" I'm sure in that.""Okay, tell the truth, but be careful! The lie is cunning and it gets on your tongue easily."Several days passed and the king called Okwuegbu once again. There was a big crowd: the king was about to go hunting. The king held his horse by the mane, his left foot was already on the stirru

• STORIES MY GRANDMA TOLD ME   14- King of Rivers and Marshes

  This part is dedicated to all my Readers. Tanx so much for your support. HOW THE FROG CAME TO BE THE KING OF RIVERS AND MARSHES There was a time when animals and people lived on the earth harmoniously side by side. Each respected the other, and they went out of their way to be friendly and useful to each other. The Elephant being the King of the animals decided one day that there should be a King of the Rivers and Marshes. He thought it would be useful to have somebody responsible for alerting people to the coming of the first rains, so that they would have time to get ready and start preparing their tools and seeds.&nbs

• STORIES MY GRANDMA TOLD ME   13- Wisdom of the Tortoise

  Hi lovelies ☺️, sorry for the late post, some things came up. This part is dedicated to all my Readers who voted,commented and shared my book, you all know yourself, you guys are the best. How the Tortoise got a wife for the king with a grain of maize Once upon a time, a very long time ago, there was a serious famine in Iduu-na-Oba (Tortoise’s town). There was scarcely any food anywhere and the little available could only be purchased by the rich individuals. Tortoise, not being financially buoyant enough to buy food for himself and his family, started thinking of how he was going to mitigate the famine. He learnt from some people that there is food in a faraway town. Immediately he heard this, he made up his mind that, no matter th

• STORIES MY GRANDMA TOLD ME   12- Woman with two skins

  WOMAN WITH TWO SKINSOnce upon a time,Enyimba was a very powerful king.He fought and conquered all the surrounding countries, killing all the old men and women, but the able-bodied men and girls he caught and brought back as slaves, and they worked on the farms until they died.This king had two hundred wives, but none of them had borne a son to him.His subjects, seeing that he was becoming an old man, begged him to marry one of the Spider's daughters, as they always had plenty of children.But when the king saw the Spider's daughter he did not like her, as she was ugly, and the people said it was because her mother had had so many children at the same time.However, in order to please his people he married the ugly girl, and placed her among his other wives, but they all complained because she was so ugly

• STORIES MY GRANDMA TOLD ME   11- Lizard and the Tortoise

  STORY OF THE LIZARD AND THE TORTOISEOnce upon a time, there was scarcity of cooking salt in Tortoise's village.The Tortoise was then appointed to go and purchase salt in a certain village.His kinsmen blessed him and said: "Whosever is pursuing, let him die, let him fall before you. Whosever tells you to die, let him die; let the kite perch, let the eagle perch, anyone that says the other will not perch, let it loose it's wings at once". And they all shouted and said: " Let it be sooooo! ".The Tortoise thanked them and commenced his journey and before he could get to the place salt is sold,he will have to pass through Lizard's village and several other villages.The Tortoise navigated through all these villages and got to that market and bought a bag

• STORIES MY GRANDMA TOLD ME   10- Tortoise and the Calabash

  Tortoise and the calabash of wisdomIn times past, when the world was still uncivilized, the Tortoise started boasting that out of all the living things on earth, he was the wisest.To prevent others from becoming wise as he was, he thought of what he would do and decided to tie up all his wisdom in a parcel and put it in a calabash and cover it up.This he would then tie up with a rope to be hanging on his neck to wherever he had to go.These were all in a bid to prevent everyone else from gaining access to wisdom.As he was crawling with the calabash dangling on his chest, he came to a spot on the road where a large tree trunk had fallen across the road.As hard as he tried to cross over the tree trunk with the calabash on his chest, he couldn’t.The calabash just prevented him from crossing over. For some time,