Yoruba
The traditional religion, mythology, and folklore of the Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa -- the orisha pantheon (Chief and Minor Gods), priesthood and worship, and folk-tales, as systematized by a British colonial ethnographer in the 1890s.
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Most-filed motifs under “yoruba” in the index
Animal gives treasure to man 1 Transformation: leaf (of tree) to person 1 Magic bird dung 1 Treasure from excrements. (Cf. D1002.) 1 Magic calabash furnishes treasure. (Cf. D965.2 1 Magic wishing-calabash. (Cf. D965.2.) 1 Magic calabash furnishes slaves. (Cf. D965.2.) 1 Substituted limbs. Man borrows various limbs a 1 Perilous river as barrier to otherworld. (Cf. 1 Wood at borders of otherworld 1 People in otherworld stand on their heads and 1 Spirits and demons (general) 1 Ogre made drunk and overcome 1 Suitor test: bringing dumb princess to speak 1 Thief shams illness as alibi 1 Escape by shamming death 1 Victim enticed into dancing: captured 1 Trickster pretends lameness and is taken on wo 1 Foolish attempt of second man to overhear secr 1 Half of kingdom as reward 1 Person carried off by bird 1