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    JOURNEYS TO THE SKELETON HOUSE - Two variations on an American Indian Hopi legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 63
    JOURNEYS TO THE SKELETON HOUSE - Two variations on an American Indian Hopi legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 63
    JOURNEYS TO THE SKELETON HOUSE - Two variations on an American Indian Hopi legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 63
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    JOURNEYS TO THE SKELETON HOUSE - Two variations on an American Indian Hopi legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 63

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 63
    In Issue 63 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates two variations of the same story about a Hopi youth who was curious about the Skeleton House - where the dead Hopi were buried. He wondered if anyone lived there. Seeking an answer he began to fast and pray and after a few days received his answer. But what was the answer and what did he do next…? Well you’ll have to download and read the stories to find out what it was.

    Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

    Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.

    BUY ANY 4 BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES FOR ONLY $1
    33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateApr 5, 2017
    ISBN9788826071077
    JOURNEYS TO THE SKELETON HOUSE - Two variations on an American Indian Hopi legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 63

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      JOURNEYS TO THE SKELETON HOUSE - Two variations on an American Indian Hopi legend - Anon E Mouse

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      Introduction

      Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.

      In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.

      In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have to recite the story back to the Wenxoxi Indaba, word for word. In this manner he learned the stories of the Zulu nation.

      In time the Wenxoxi Indaba grew old and when he could no longer see or hear, Baba Indaba became the

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