Reading Notes: Congo Part A




  • How the Wives Resoted their Husband to Life
    • kept complaining of hunger even with plenty of food 
    • Husband got killed hunting for them
    • wives fighting over who sleeps with the husband first when he comes back to life
    • all three helped find and bring him back to life him
    • Husband chooses Fulla Fulla
    • people say he should have eaten out of all pots at once..
  • The Jealous wife
    • Here the jealous wife is being killed.
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    • had to take turns fishing for husband sense they both had kids
    • elder went first
    • Elder wife plans on murdering the younger wife's kid
      • accidently killed her own son
    • Husband doesn't believe younger wife
      • his friend finds elder in woods crying over child
    • Husband and friend killed her and burnt her body
  • The Wicked Husband
    • Keep running out of Palm-nuts because husbands relations keep asking 
    • he cut off her arms and legs
    • hunter found her and the prince found out
    • she died as soon as she got taken to the palace
    • burnt him with dead wife's flesh
  • How Kengi Lost her Child
    • both married to the same man
    • divided property up in two
    • came to conclusion that anything on their sides of property is exclusively theirs
    • one accidently birthed a child on the others side and that other wife kept the child
    • prince agreed it belongs to the wife where the child was bore


This story is part of the Congo unit. Story source: Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort by Richard Edward Dennett (1898).

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