Motif
Communal evening storytelling frame
communal_evening_storytelling_frame
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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West African Folk-Tales I. ANANSI, OR SPIDER, TALES / II. MISCELLANEOUS TALES / ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION; lines 176-279 confidence: medium
The retelling and illustrations aim to introduce readers to local thought and customs; the reader is asked to picture an evening village with the sun near the western horizon, cool air, and stillness before tom-toms, crickets, bull-frogs, and other sounds begin.
The passage explicitly says the scene is to provide the atmosphere for a story and depicts a village evening in which work ends, talking continues, and people gather around a lantern.
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