ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 176
In this 176th issue of the Baba Indaba's Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of Charcoal Nils and the Troll-Woman. Nils is a poor charcoal burner and can never seem to make enough charcoal fast enough. One day a woman approaches him and offers to help. Soon Nils is making more charcoal of a higher quality than ever before. It seems too good to be true. Nils marries the woman and they have four children. One day when he was returning from a delivery he sees something he never thought he would ever see................... Download and read this story and find out just what Nils saw and what he did about it.
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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.
Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".
It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through the Middle East and Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, can be altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.
