Reading Notes - South African Folktales Part A

 South African Folktales

Author: Multiple

Part A: The Lost Message

  • Ants have many enemies and anteaters live wholly from them
  • A few ants found it best to have a council meeting to make arrangments for a retreating place
  • They could not come to a decision
  • There were a red, rice, black, wagtail, gray, and shining ant as well as others
  • Thye discussed for a long time but came to no conclusion
  • each part decided it best to go their own way 
  • from among the ants, some had an appointed king and divided labor, unity could not be seen greater around the world
  • Each group did it in its own way and no one had a plan against birds or an anteater
  • Red ants built an underground house and the anteater destroyed it
  • Rice ants lied underground and the anteater visited them too nothing was better
  • Wagtail lived in the trees but a centipede laid waiting as well as the birds gobbled them up\
  • Gray decided to take flight but was stopped by the lizard hunting spider and the birds
  • Insect king heard there was no agreement made and sent them the secret of unity and work together
  • However, he chose is a messenger to be the beetle and he hasn't arrived at the ants so still to this day they embody the prey of enemies
The anteater

(Source: Wikipedia)

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