Bib: Congo Unit written by Richard Edward Dennett
Three wives : the Dreamer, the Guide, and the Raiser of the
Dead
Husband : Nenpetro
He is a
good hunter
He kills an antelope and monkey but the wives are not
satisfied. The husband realizes he must capture something larger, an ox. When
he goes to slay this animal another kills him. The Dreamer dreams that the
husband has been killed by an ox so they go to search him out. The Guide helps
them find the husband and the Raiser of the Dead brings the husband to life.
While he is rousing the women make food for him.
How Gazelle Got Married
Nenpetro has two beautiful daughters and promises to not
marry them to anyone unless they can guess their names.
Nsassi: A Gazelle that really thinks the two daughters are
lovely but he cannot figure out their names.
Dog: Nsassi’s dog who is very loyal and cares for his
owner’s happiness
The dog overhears Nenpetro calling his daughter’s names and
runs back to tell Nsassi. He gets very
hungry along the way and eats a cat but then forgets the girls names. The dog
then goes back to be reminded of their names. The girls feed the dog and then
goes on home very happy to tell him owner the news. On the way home the dog
became very thirsty and stopped at a river to take a long drink, got distracted
and once again forgot the names. Again, the dog comes back to the daughters and
gets their names this time the daughters giving him both water and food. This
time the dog did not stop and went straight to Nsassi. He greeted him with much
joy and asked him where he had been. The dog then relayed the names to Nsassi
so he could be happy. On they went to find the daughters. On the way they
became very thirsty and stopped to get water and once again forgot the names.
Nsassi had the dog go back and get the names again. FINALLY, they both go to
Nenpetro’s daughters and tells them their names. He is then rewareded the two
sisters.
In the end of this story Nsassi kills the Antelope and I am
just going to leave that out because it is random.
Maybe because it took so much time and effort to find the
names it is the reason why the father made it that way. Making sure the man to be
with his daughters was willing to try hard.
[ please change this story. It is so redundant
The Vanishing wife
Swarmi: wealthy brother, married, not kind to his brother,
was not a giver
Buite: simple , poor brother, lonely ,
Swarmi was not kind to his brother and did not share any of
his wealth. Buite ate kernels from the palm everyday. One day he decided he did
not belong there so he left going deep into the woods. There he slept and had a
dream of going to a river and finding a beautiful woman that told him to knock
on the ground three times and a canoe
popped up. Again, and oars popped up. The woman told him to catch fish but chop
off their heads because she could not bear to see them. When Buite woke he did what his dream showed
him. He went to the river knocked on the ground three times and then the canoe.
He went out and caught fish and removed their heads and returned back where he
had slept. When he was walking back he realized where there had been nothing
now stood a house with servants and most importantly his beautiful wife. He was
happy for a while but got tired of cutting the heads off of the fish so one
time he did not. The servant boy told he must for his wife truly disliked this.
He said no but then ran after the boy the cut the heads off. He did this a few
more times. One day he took too long and did not grab the boy in time. The boy
gave the fish to his wife without removing their heads. When this happened
everything vanished before Buite’s eyes.
The Jealous wife
There were two wives and a husband. The husband went out to
do some trading while the two wives had their children. It was about time for
the husband to come back so the two women decided to catch some fish to cook
for his return. They could not both go at the same time because they had to
look after the children so the wives went one at a time to fish. The elder wife
was jealous because the younger wife’s child was smarter than hers so she
decided she would kill her child while she was away fishing and get it over
with. While the young wife was away she snuck to where the child normally slept
and killed it. She woke the next morning to look at what she had done and
realized she had killed her own child. She was deeply anguished and ran away
with the child. The other child saw this happen and told its mother. When the
father found out he could not believe it so he had some of his men go and
search for the elder wife and child. They were finally found with the mother
asking, “why won’t you wake?” The father then poisoned her heart and burnt her.
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