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South Africa

The Religious System of the Amazulu by Henry Callaway [1870]

Part I: UNKULUNKULU (OR, THE TRADITION OF CREATION AS EXISTING AMONG THE AMAZULU AND OTHER TRIBES OF SOUTH AFRICA.)
Part II: AMATONGO (OR, ANCESTOR WORSHIP.)
Part III: IZINYANGA ZOKUBULA (OR, DIVINERS.)
Part IV: ABATAKATI (OR, MEDICAL MAGIC, AND WITCHCRAFT.)

Specimens of Bushman Folklore by W.H.I. Bleek and L.C. Lloyd [1911]

The Mantis Assumes The Form Of A Hartebeest
!Gaunu-Tsaxau (The Son Of The Mantis), The Baboons, And The Mantis
The Story Of The Leopard Tortoise.
The Children Are Sent To Throw The Sleeping Sun Into The Sky.
The Origin Of Death; Preceded By A Prayer Addressed To The Young Moon.
The Moon Is Not To Be Looked At When Game Has Been Shot.
The Girl Of The Early Race, Who Made Stars.
The Great Star, !Gaunu, Which, Singing, Named The Stars.
What The Stars Say, And A Prayer To A Star.
!Ko-G!nuing-Tara, Wife Of The Dawn's-Heart Star, Jupiter.
The Son Of The Wind.
The Wind.
#Kaga'Ra And !Haunu, Who Fought Each Other With Lightning.
The Hyena's Revenge. First Version.
The Hyena's Revenge. Second Version.
The Lion Jealous Of The Voice Of The Ostrich.
The Resurrection Of The Ostrich.
The Vultures, Their Elder Sister, And Her Husband.
Ddi-Xerreten, The Lioness, And The Children.
The Mason Wasp And His Wife.
The Young Man Of The Ancient Race, Who Was Carried Off By A Lion; When Asleep In The Field.
A Woman Of The Early Race And The Rain Bull.
The Girl's Story; The Frogs' Story.
The Man Who Ordered His Wife To Cut Off His Ears.
The #Nerru And Her Husband.
The #Nerru, As A Bird
The Death Of The Lizard.
The Cat's Song.
The Song Of The Caama Fox.
The Songs Of The Blue Crane.
The Old Woman's Song.
A Song Sung By The Star !Gaunu, And Especially By Bushman Women.
Sirius And Canopus.
The Song Of The Bustard.
The Song Of The Springbok Mothers.
||Kabbo's Song On The Loss Of His Tobacco Pouch.
The Broken String.
The Song Of !Nu!Numma-!Kwiten.
The Leopard And The Jackal.
Doings Of The Springbok.
Habits Of The Bat And The Porcupine.
The Saxicola Castor And The Wild Cat.
The Baboons And ||Xabbiten||Xabbiten.
A Lion's Story.
The Man Who Found A Lion In A Cave.
Certain Hunting Observances, Called !Nanna-Sse.
!Nanna-Sse, Second Part.
Treatment Of Bones By The Narrator's Grandfather, Tsatsi.
How The Father-In-Law Of The Narrator Treated Bones.
Tactics In Springbok Hunting.
||Kabbo's Capture And Journey To Cape Town. First Account.
||Kabbo's Capture And Journey To Cape Town. Second Account.
||Kabbo's Journey In The Railway Train.
||Kabbo's Intended Return Home.
How |Hang#Kass'o'S Pet Leveret Was Killed.
The Thunderstorm.
Cutting Off The Top Of The Little Finger, And Piercing Ears And Nose.
Cutting Off The Top Of The Little Finger. Second Account
Bushman Presentiments
Doings And Prayers When Canopus And Sirius Come Out.
The Making Of Clay Pots.
The Bushman Soup Spoon.
The Shaped Rib Bone.
The Bushman Drum And Dancing Rattles.
How The Dancing Rattles Are Prepared.
The Use Of The !Going!Going, Followed By An Account Of A Bushman Dance.
Preparation Of The Feather Brushes Used In Springbok Hunting.
The Marking Of Arrows.
The Adhesive Substance Used By The Bushmen In Marking Arrows.
Mode Of Getting Rid Of The Evil Influence Of Bad Dreams.
Concerning Two Apparitions.
The Jackal's Heart Not To Be Eaten.
||Hara And Tto.
How Tto Is Obtained.
Signs Made By Bushmen In Order To Show In Which Direction They Have Gone.
A Bushman, Becoming Faint From The Sun's Heat When Returning Home, Throws Earth Into The Air, That Those At Home May See The Dust And Come To Help Him.
Death.
The Relations Of Wind, Moon, And Cloud To Human Beings After Death.
1. The Doings Of |Xue Are Many.
2. Further Changes Of Form.
3. |Xue As A ||Gui Tree And As A Fly.
4. |Xue As Water And As Other Things. In His Own Form, He Rubs Fire And Dies.
Prayer To The Young Moon.
The Treatment Of Thieves.
The Four Pieces Of Wood Called |Xu, Used For Divining Purposes.
To Beat The Ground (With A Stone).
Snakes, Lizards, And A Certain Small Antelope, When Seen Near Graves, To Be Respected.
A Certain Snake, Which, By Lying Upon Its Back, Announces A Death In The Family; And Which Must Not, Under These Circumstances, Be Killed.

South African Folk-Tales by James A. Honey [1910] Kaffir (Xhosa)

Origin Of The Difference In Modes Of Life between Hottentots And Bushmen
The Lost Message
The Monkey's Fiddle
The Tiger, The Ram, And The Jackal
The Jackal And The Wolf
A Jackal And A Wolf
The Lion, The Jackal, And The Man
The World's Reward
The Lion And Jackal
Tink-Tinkje
The Lion And Jackal
Lion And Jackal
The Hunt Of Lion And Jackal
Story Of Lion And Little Jackal
The Lioness And The Ostrich
Crocodile's Treason
The Story Of A Dam
The Dance For Water Or Rabbit's Triumph
Jackal And Monkey
Lion's Share
Jackal's Bride
The Story Of Hare
The White Man And Snake
Another Version Of The Same Fable
Cloud-Eating
Lion's Illness
Jackal, Dove, And Heron
Cock And Jackal
Elephant And Tortoise
Another Version Of The Same Fable
Tortoises Hunting Ostriches
The Judgment Of Baboon
Lion And Baboon
The Zebra Stallion
When Lion Could Fly
Lion Who Thought Him Self Wiser Than His Mother
Lion Who Took A Woman's Shape
Why Has Jackal A Long, Black Stripe On His Back?
Horse Cursed By Sun
Lion's Defeat
The Origin Of Death
Another Version Of The Same Fable
A Third Version Of The Same Fable
A Fourth Version Of The Same Fable
A Zulu Version Of The Legend Of The "Origin Of Death"

Folk Tales by Georg McCall Theal [1886]

Story Of The Bird That Made Milk. I
The Story Of The Bird That Made Milk. II
The Story Of Five Heads
The Story Of Tangalimlibo
Story Of The Girl Who Disregarded The Custom Of Ntonjane
The Story Of Simbukumbukwana
The Story Of Sikulume
The Story Of Hlakanyana
The Story Of Demane And Demazana
The Runaway Children; Or, The Wonderful Feather
Story Of Ironside And His Sister
Story Of The Cannibal's Wonderful Bird
The Story Of The Cannibal Mother And Her Children
Story Of The Girl And The Mbulu
The Story Of Mbulukazi
The Story Of Long Snake
The Story Of Kenkebe
Another Story Of Kenkebe
Story Of The Wonderful Horns
The Story Of The Glutton
Story Of The Great Chief Of The Animals
Story Of The Hare
Story Of Lion And Little Jackal
Proverbs And Figurative Expressions

The Bantu

Myths and Legends of the Bantu by Alice Werner [1933]

Chapter I: Introductory
Chapter II: Where Man Came From, and How Death Came
Chapter III: Legends of the High Gods
Chapter IV: The Heaven Country and the Heaven People
Chapter V: Mortals Who Have Ascended to Heaven
Chapter VI: The Ghosts and the Ghost Country
Chapter VII: The Avenger of Blood
Chapter VIII: Heroes and Demi-Gods
Chapter IX: The Wakilindi Saga
Chapter X: The Story of Liongo Fumo
Chapter XI: The Tricksters Hlakanyana and Huveane
Chapter XII: The Amazimu
Chapter XIII: Of Were-Wolves, Halfmen, Gnomes, Goblins, and Other Monsters
Chapter XIV: The Swallowing Monster
Chapter XV: Lightning, Thunder, Rain, and the Rainbow
Chapter XVI: Doctors, Prophets, and Witches
Chapter XVII: Brer Rabbit in Africa
Chapter XVIII: Legends of the Tortoise
Chapter XIX: Stories of Some Other Animals
Chapter XX.- Some Stories Which Have Travelled

West and Central Africa

Myths of Ífè by John Wyndham [1921]

I. THE BEGINNING.
II. THE DESCENT
III. THE WAR OF THE GODS.
IV. THE SACRIFICE OF MÓRIMI.
V. THE ÚBO WARS.
VI. THE PASSING OF ÓGUN.

Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort, by R. E. Dennett. [1898]

I. The Folklore Of The Fjort.
II. How A Native Story Is Told.
III. How The Wives Restored Their Husband To Life.
IV. How Nsassi (Gazelle) Got Married.
V. The Vanishing Wife.
VI. Another Vanishing Wife.
VII. The Jealous Wife.
VIII. Ngomba's Balloon.
IX. The Wicked Husband.
X. The Wonderful Child.
XI. How Kengi Lost Her Child.
XII. The Twin Brothers.
XIII. The Younger Brother Who Knew More Than The Elder.
XIV. The Chimpanzee And Gorilla.
XV. The Antelope And The Leopard.
XVI. How The Spider Won And Lost Nzambi's Daughter.
XVII. The Turtle And The Man.
XVIII. Killing A Leopard.
XIX. The Gazelle And The Leopard.
XX. The Wild Cat And The Gazelle.
XXI. The Crafty Woman Overreaches Herself.
XXII. How The Fetish Sunga Punished My Great-Uncle's Twin Brother, Basa.
XXIII. The Rabbit And The Antelope.
XXIV. The Fight Between The Two Fetishes, Lifuma And Chimpukela.
XXV. The Fetish Of Chilunga.
XXVI. The Leopard And The Crocodile.
XXVII. Why Some Men Are White And Others Black.
XXVIII. The Bird-Messengers.
XXIX. Nzambi Mpungu's Ambassador.
XXX. Why The Crocodile Does Not Eat The Hen.
XXXI. The Three Brothers.
XXXII. Death And Burial Of The Fjort.

At the Back of the Black Man's Mind by R. E. Dennett. [1906]

Chapter 1 LUANGO AND THE BAVILI
Chapter 2 ELECTION OF A KING IN THE KONGO
Chapter 3 CORONATION OF A KING IN THE KONGO
Chapter 4 COURTS OF MALUANGO AND MAMBOMA
Chapter 5 LAW
Chapter 6 MEASURES, SIGNS, AND SYMBOLS
Chapter 7 BAVILI PSYCHOLOGY
Chapter 8 NDONGOISM
Chapter 9 NKICI-ISM
Chapter 10 BAVILI PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 11 BIBILA, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE GROVES
Chapter 12 SACRED LANDS AND RIVERS
Chapter 13 SACRED TREES
Chapter 14 THE OMENS
Chapter 15 SACRED ANIMALS
Chapter 16 NZAMBI (GOD), THE WORD NKICI, AND THE BAKICI BACI
Chapter 17 THE BINI
Chapter 18 BENIN DISTRICTS
Chapter 19 BINI CUSTOMS
Chapter 20 MORE CUSTOMS
Chapter 21 TRACES OF NKICI-ISM AMONG THE BINI
Chapter 22 THE PHILOSOPHY AT THE BACK OF THE BLACK MAN'S MIND IN TABLE FORM

Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria By Elphinstone Dayrell, Introduction by Andrew Lang. [1910]

Chapter 1 LUANGO AND THE BAVILI
Chapter 2 ELECTION OF A KING IN THE KONGO
Chapter 3 CORONATION OF A KING IN THE KONGO
Chapter 4 COURTS OF MALUANGO AND MAMBOMA
Chapter 5 LAW
Chapter 6 MEASURES, SIGNS, AND SYMBOLS
Chapter 7 BAVILI PSYCHOLOGY
Chapter 8 NDONGOISM
Chapter 9 NKICI-ISM
Chapter 10 BAVILI PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 11 BIBILA, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE GROVES
Chapter 12 SACRED LANDS AND RIVERS
Chapter 13 SACRED TREES
Chapter 14 THE OMENS
Chapter 15 SACRED ANIMALS
Chapter 16 NZAMBI (GOD), THE WORD NKICI, AND THE BAKICI BACI
Chapter 17 THE BINI
Chapter 18 BENIN DISTRICTS
Chapter 19 BINI CUSTOMS
Chapter 20 MORE CUSTOMS
Chapter 21 TRACES OF NKICI-ISM AMONG THE BINI
Chapter 22 THE PHILOSOPHY AT THE BACK OF THE BLACK MAN'S MIND IN TABLE FORM

Fetichism in West Africa by Rev. Robert Hamill Nassau. [1904]

Chapter I: Constitution of Native African Society--Sociology
Chapter II: The Idea of God--Religion
Chapter III: Polytheism--Idolatry
Chapter IV :Spiritual Beings in African Religion
Chapter V: Spiritual Beings in Africa--Their Classes and Functions
Chapter VI: Fetichism--Its Philosophy--A Physical Salvation--Charms and Amulets
Chapter VII: The Fetich--A Worship
Chapter VIII: The Fetich--Witchcraft--A White Art--Sorcery
Chapter IX: The Fetich--Witchcraft--A Black Art--Demonology
Chapter X: Fetichism--A Government
Chapter XI: The Fetich--Its Relation to the Family
Chapter XII: The Fetich--Its Relations to Daily Work and Occupations and to the Needs of Life
Chapter XIII: The Fetich--Superstition in Customs
Chapter XIV: Fetich--Its Relation to the Future Life--Ceremonies at Deaths and Funerals
Chapter XV: Fetichism--Some of its Practical Effects
Chapter XVI: Tales of Fetich Based on Fact
Chapter XVII: Fetich in Folk-Lore

Hausa Folklore by Maalam Shaihu, translated by R. Sutherland Rattray. [1913]

1. The story of the slave by name 'The World'
2. How brothers and sisters first came to quarrel and hate each other
3. The story of the boy and the old woman, and how the wasp got his small waist
4. The story about a beautiful maiden, and how the hartebeest got the marks under its eyes like teardrops
5. How the whip and the 'maara' spoon (a broken bit of calabash) came to the haunts of men
6. A story about a chief, and how his sons observed his funeral, and the origin of the spider
7. A story about an orphan, showing that 'he who sows evil, it comes forth in his own garden'
8. A story about a witch, and how the baby of the family outwitted her, and invented the first walled town
9. The doctor who went a pilgrimage to Mecca on a hyena
10. A story about a chief and his cook
11. A story about three youths all skilled in certain things, and how they used that skill to circumvent a difficulty.
12. A story about a giant, and the cause of thunder
13. A story about an orphan which was the origin of the saying 'The orphan with a coat of skin is hated, but when it is a metal one he is honoured'
14. A story of a jealous man and what befell him
15. A story of a great friendship and how it was put to the test
16. A story about a test of skill
17. A story about Miss Salt, Miss Pepper, &c.
18. The story of Muusa (Moses) and how it came about that brothers and sisters do not marry each other
19. A story about a hunter and his son
20. A story about a maiden and the pumpkin
21. The Gaawoo-tree and the maiden, and the first person who ever went mad

Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People by D. Amaury Talbot. [1915]

Chapter 1: Introductory
Chapter 2: Prenatal Influences And Birth Customs
Chapter 3: Birth Customs (continued)
Chapter 4: Affinities Or Bush Souls
Chapter 5: Childhood
Chapter 6: Maidenhood To Marriage
Chapter 7: Wedded Life And Motherhood
Chapter 8: Domestic Life
Chapter 9: Marriage Problems
Chapter 10: Love Philtres And Magic
Chapter 11: Witchcraft
Chapter 12: Jujus
Chapter 13: Woman And Secret Societies
Chapter 14: Woman In War Time
Chapter 15: Widowhood And Burial Customs
Chapter 16: Widowhood And Burial Customs (continued)

The Yoruba Speaking Peoples by A.B. Ellis [1894]

Chapter I: Introductory.
Chapter II: Chief Gods.
Chapter III: Minor Gods.
Chapter IV: Remarks on the Foregoing.
Chapter V: Priests and Worship.
Chapter VI: Egungun, Oro, Abiku, and Various Superstitions.
Chapter VII: The In-Dwelling Spirits And Souls of Men.
Chapter VIII: Measurements of Time.
Chapter IX: Ceremonies at Birth, Marriage, and Death.
Chapter XIII: Proverbs.
Chapter XIV: Folk-Lore Tales.

Caribbean

Jamaica Anansi Stories by Martha Warren Beckwith [1924].

1. Tying Tiger.
2. Tiger as Substitute.
3. Tiger as Riding-horse.
4. Tiger's Sheep-skin Suit.
5. Tiger Catching the Sheep-thief.
6. Tiger's Breakfast.
7. Eggs and Scorpions.
8. Tiger's Bone-hole.
9. The Christening.
10. Eating Tiger's Guts.
11. Throwing away Knives.
12. Grace Before Meat.
13. Day-time Trouble.
14. New Names.
15. Long-shirt.
16. Shut up in the Pot.
17. House in the Air.
18. Goat on the Hill-side.
19. Dog and Dog-head.
20. Tacoomah's Corn-piece.
21. Anansi and the Tar-baby.
22. Inside the Cow.
23. Cunnie-More-Than-Father.
24. The Duckano tree.
25. Food and Cudgel.
26. The Riddle.
27. Anansi and Brother Dead.
28. Brother Dead and the Brindle Puppy.
29. The Cowitch and Mr. Foolman.
30. Dry-Head and Anansi. 31. The Yam-hills.
32. The Law against Back-biting.
33. Fling-a-mile.
34. But-but and Anansi.
35. Tumble-bug and Anansi.
36. Horse and Anansi.
37. Anansi in Monkey Country.
38. Curing the Sick.
39. Anansi, White-belly and Fish.
40. Goat's Escape.
41. Turtle's Escape.
42. Fire and Anansi.
43. Quit-quit and Anansi.
44. Spider Marries Monkey's Daughter.
45. The Chain of Victims.
46. Why Tumble-bug Rolls in the Dung.
47. Why John-crow has a Bald Head.
48. Why Dog is always Looking.
49. Why Rocks at the River are covered with Moss.
50. Why Ground-dove Complains.
51. Why Hog is always Grunting.
52. Why Toad Croaks.
53. Why Woodpecker Bores Wood.
54. Why Crab is afraid after Dark.
55. Why Mice are no Bigger.
56. Rat's Wedding. [Supplementary Note]
57. Cockroach Stories.
58. Hunter, Guinea-hen and Fish.
59. Rabbit Stories.
60. The Animal Race.
61. The Fasting Trial.
62. Man is Stronger.
63. The Pea that made a Fortune.
64. Settling the Father's Debt.
65. Mr. Lenaman's Corn-field.
66. Simon Tootoos.
67. The Tree-wife.
68. Sammy the Comferee.
69. Grandy-Do-an'-Do.
70. Jack and Harry.
71. Pea-fowl as Messenger.
72. The Barking Puppy.
73. The Singing Bird.
74. Two Sisters.
75. Asoonah.
76. The Greedy Child.
77. Alimoty and Aliminty.
78. The Fish Lover.
79. Juggin Straw Blue.
80. The Witch and the Grain of Peas.
81. Bosen Corner.
82. The Three Dogs.
83. Andrew and his Sisters.
84. The Hunter.
85. Man-Snake as Bridegroom.
86. The Girls who married the Devil.
87. Bull as Bridegroom.
88. The Two Bulls.
89. Ballinder Bull.
90. Bird Arinto.
91. Tiger Softens his Voice.
92. Hidden Names.
93. Anansi and Mr. Able.
94. The King's Three Daughters.
95. The Dumb Child.
96. The Dumb Wife.
97. Leap, Timber, Leap.
98. The Boy fools Anansi.
99. The Water Crayfish.
100. Ali Baba and Kissem.
101. Bull-of all-the-Land.
102. The Boiling Pot.
103. The Twelve One-eyed Men.
104. Bird and Hunter.
105. Jack and the Devil Errant.
106. The Magic Hat and the Staff of Life.
107. Uncle Green and Jack.
108. Big Begum and Little Begum.
109. The Fool and the Wise Brother.
110. The Children and the Witch.
111. The Boy and the Mermaid.
112. Difficult Tasks.
113. The Grateful Beasts.
114. Jack and the Bean-stalk.
115. Jack and the Devil.
116. Jack's Riddle.
117. Jack as Fortune-teller.
118. Robin as Fortune-teller.
119. Jack and the Grateful Dead.
120. The Boy and his Master.
121. The Language of Beasts.
122. The Three Pieces of Advice.
123. Three Brothers and the Life-tree.
124. The Skilful Brothers.
125. The Three Sillies.
126. A Misunderstanding.
127. Big-head, Big-belly, and Little-foot.
128. The Goat in the Lion's Den.
129. The Donkey, the Cat and the Lion's Head.
130. Clever Molly May.
131. Dancing to Anansi's Fiddle.
132. Anansi claims the dinner.
133. Anansi seeks his Fortune.
134. The Pannier-jar.
135. Anansi kills his Grandmother.
136. White Belly and Anansi.
137. Monkey hunts Anansi.
138. Anansi and the Pig coming from Market.
139. The Fifer.
140. In Come Murray.
141. Tacoomah makes a Dance.
142. Anansi makes a Dance.
143. Red Yam.
144. Guzzah Man.
145. Fowl and Pretty Poll.
146. The Cumbolo.
147. John-crow and Fowl at Court.
148. Wooden Ping-ping and Cock.
149. Animal Talk.

Rastafarianism

The Kebra Nagast E.A. Wallis Budge, translator [1932].

1. Concerning the Glory of Kings
2. Concerning the Greatness of Kings
3. Concerning the Kingdom of ADAM
4. Concerning Envy
5. Concerning the Kingdom of SETH
6. Concerning the Sin of CAIN
7. Concerning NOAH
8. Concerning the Flood
9. Concerning the Covenant of NOAH
10. Concerning ZION
11. The Unanimous Declaration of the Three Hundred and Eighteen Orthodox Fathers
12. Concerning CANAAN
13. Concerning ABRAHAM
14. Concerning the Covenant of ABRAHAM
15. Concerning ISAAC and JACOB
16. Concerning RÔBÊL (REUBEN)
17. Concerning the Glory of ZION
18. How the Orthodox Fathers and Bishops Agreed
19. How this Book came to be found
20. Concerning the Division of the Earth
21. Concerning the Queen of the South
22. Concerning TÂMRÎN, the Merchant
23. How the Merchant returned to ETHIOPIA
24. How the Queen made ready to set out on her Journey
25. How the Queen came to SOLOMON the King
26. How the King held converse with the Queen
27. Concerning the Labourer
28. How SOLOMON gave Commandments to the Queen
29. Concerning the Three Hundred and Eighteen [Patriarchs]
30. Concerning how King SOLOMON swore to the Queen
31. Concerning the sign which SOLOMON gave the Queen
32. How the Queen brought forth and came to her own Country
33. How the King of ETHIOPIA travelled
34. How the young man arrived in his mother's country
35. How King SOLOMON sent to his son the commander of his army
36. How King SOLOMON held intercourse with his son
37. How SOLOMON asked His Son Questions
38. How the King planned to send away his son with the children of the nobles
39. How they made the Son of SOLOMON King
40. How ZADOK the priest gave commands to DAVID the King
41. Concerning the blessing of Kings
42. Concerning the Ten Commandments
43. How the men of the Army of ISRAEL received [their] orders
44. How it is not a seemly thing to revile the King
45. How those who were sent away wept and made a plan
46. How they made a plan concerning ZION
47. Concerning the offering of AZÂRYÂS (AZARIAH) and the King
48. How they carried away ZION
49. How his Father blessed his Son
50. How they bade farewell to his Father and how the city mourned
51. How he said unto ZADOK the Priest, "Go and bring the Covering (or, Clothing) which is upon it (i.e., ZION)"
52. How ZADOK the Priest Departed
53. How the Wagon was given to ETHIOPIA
54. How DAVID [the King of ETHIOPIA] Prophesied and Saluted ZION
55. How the People of ETHIOPIA Rejoiced
56. Of the Return of ZADOK the Priest, and the giving of the Gift
57. Concerning the Fall of ZADOK the Priest
58. How SOLOMON Rose up to Slay them
59. How the King Questioned an Egyptian, the Servant of PHARAOH
60. How SOLOMON Lamented for ZION
61. How SOLOMON Returned to JERUSALEM
62. Concerning the answer which SOLOMON made to them
63. How the Nobles of ISRAEL agreed [with the King]
64. How the Daughter of PHARAOH Seduced SOLOMON
65. Concerning the sin of SOLOMON
66. Concerning the prophecy of CHRIST
67. Concerning the lamentation of SOLOMON
68. Concerning MARY, Our Lady of Salvation
69. Concerning the Question of SOLOMON
70. How REHOBOAM reigned
71. Concerning MARY, the daughter of DAVID
72. Concerning the King of RÔMÊ (CONSTANTINOPLE)
73. Concerning the first judgment of ’ADRÂMÎ, King of RÔMÊ
74. Concerning the King of MEDYÂM
75. Concerning the King of BABYLON
76. Concerning lying witnesses
77. Concerning the King of PERSIA
78. Concerning the King of MOAB
79. Concerning the King of AMALEK
80. Concerning the King of the PHILISTINES
81. How the son of SAMSON slew the son of the King of the PHILISTINES
82. Concerning the going down of ABRAHAM into EGYPT
83. Concerning the King of the ISHMAELITES
84. Concerning the King of ETHIOPIA and how he returned to his country
85. Concerning the rejoicing of Queen MÂKEDÂ
86. How Queen MÂKEDÂ made her son King
87. How the nobles (or governors) of ETHIOPIA took the oath
88. How he himself related to his mother how they made him King
89. How the Queen talked to the Children of ISRAEL
90. How AZARIAH praised the Queen and her city
91. This is what ye shall eat: the clean and the unclean
92. How they renewed the kingdom of DAVID
93. How the Men of RÔMÊ destroyed the Faith
94. The first war of the King of ETHIOPIA
95. How the honourable estate of the King of ETHIOPIA was universally accepted
96. Concerning the Prophecy about CHRIST
97. Concerning the Murmuring of ISRAEL
98. Concerning the Rod of MOSES and the Rod of AARON
99. Concerning the Two Servants
100. Concerning the Angels who rebelled
101. Concerning Him that existeth in Everything and Everywhere
102. Concerning the Beginning
103. Concerning the Horns of the Altar
104. More concerning the Ark and the Talk of the Wicked
105. Concerning the belief of ABRAHAM
106. A Prophecy concerning the Coming of CHRIST
107. Concerning His entrance into JERUSALEM in Glory
108. Concerning the wickedness of the iniquitous JEWS
109. Concerning His Crucifixion
110. Concerning His Resurrection
111. Concerning His Ascension and His Second Coming
112. How the Prophets foreshadowed Him in their persons
113. Concerning the Chariot and the Vanquisher of the Enemy
114. Concerning the return of ZION
115. Concerning the Judgement of ISRAEL
116. Concerning the Chariot of ETHIOPIA
117. Concerning the King of RÔMÊ and the King of ETHIOPIA

The Wisdom of Rastafari

THE BIBLE
RELIGION
MORALITY
HUMAN RIGHTS
UNITY
GOVERNMENT
LEADERSHIP
EDUCATION
RESPONSIBILITY
PLANNING
WORK
SELF HELP
DEVELOPMENT
LAND POLICY
RESOURCES
AGRICULTURE
FINE ARTS
HEALTH
INTER AFRICA
ETHIOPIA'S POSITION
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Vodun (Voodoo)

Last of the Voudoos by Lafcadio Hearn [1885]

New Orleans Superstitions by Lafcadio Hearn [1886]

Voodoo and Obeahs By Joseph J. Williams. New York, [1932].

Chapter I: African Ophiolatry
Chapter II: Serpent Cult at Whydah
Chapter III: Voodoo in Haiti
Chapter IV: Origin of Obeah
Chapter V: Development of Obeah in Jamaica

Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica By Joseph J. Williams. New York, [1934].

20 Rare Antique Books
African Religions CD

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20 Rare Antique Books African Religions CD

Full Description of Books

20 Rare Antique Books
African Religions CD