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By John H. Weeks
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The narrative is framed through the journey of a brass rod used as local currency, which passes among owners and serves to present riverine travel, village life, funerary rites, witch‑finding ordeals, and everyday customs observed by a Baptist missionary. Part I records encounters, omens, disputes, games, market exchange and the challenges faced by missionaries confronting entrenched superstitions, while Part II collects thirty-three native tales told round evening fires, including animal fables, riddles, and moral parables. The combined account mixes ethnographic description, personal anecdote, and retold folklore to portray social beliefs, ritual practice, and the cultural obstacles to religious change.

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Title: Congo life and folklore

Author: John H. Weeks

Release date: December 17, 2022 [eBook #69558]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: The Religious tract society, 1911

Credits: Peter Becker, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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CONGO LIFE AND FOLKLORE

Photo]      A NATIVE VILLAGE.      [Rev. R. H. Kirkland

THE MAIN PATH ON WATHEN STATION.
(Note the “Welcome” Banner.)

CONGO LIFE
AND FOLKLORE

Part I
LIFE ON THE CONGO
AS DESCRIBED BY A BRASS ROD
Part II
THIRTY-THREE NATIVE STORIES
AS TOLD ROUND THE EVENING FIRES
BY THE
REV. JOHN H. WEEKS
(BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY)
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
4 BOUVERIE STREET; & 65 ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD, E.C.
1911
TO
MY COLLEAGUES, LIVING AND DEAD
WHOSE ARDUOUS LABOURS AND FAITHFUL LIVES HAVE
REDOUNDED TO THE GLORY OF CHRIST, AND
TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS KINGDOM IN CONGOLAND
AND TO
THOSE CO-WORKERS IN THE HOME-LAND
WHOSE GENEROSITY, PRAYERS AND KINDLY WORDS HAVE
SUPPORTED, STRENGTHENED AND ENCOURAGED
THEM ALL THESE YEARS, THIS BOOK
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED