BLACK STAIRS ON FIRE - An Irish fairy tale with a moral: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 170
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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 170
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In this 170th issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Irish tale of ?The Black Stairs on Fire?. After a long day?s work, a family rest for the night after their evening meal. Too tired to wash the dishes and clean ΓΏthe house, there is suddenly a knock at the door with someone wanting to come in. But the request to come in is not addressed to the human occupants.......??. Download and read this story to find out what events unfold after the knock is heard and the request to enter is granted. Find out what the moral of the story is?
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INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
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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.
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Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".
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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.
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The Baba Indaba Children's Stories, published by Abela Publishing, often uses folklore and fairy tales which have their origins mists of time. Afterall who knows who wrote the story of Cinderella, also known in other cultures as Tattercoats or Conkiajgharuna. So who wrote the original? The answer is simple. No-one knows, or will ever know, so to assume that anyone owns the rights to these stories is nothing but nonsense. As such, we have decided to use the Author name "Anon E. Mouse" which, of course, is a play on the word "Anonymous".
