Myths and legends of Southern Africa by Penny Miller
Myths and legends of Southern Africa by Penny Miller
Hardcover, ISBN 9780949956163
Publisher: T. V. Bulpin, 1979 First Edition
Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The cover has some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Green boards with gilt image and lettering. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
Introduction by T V Bulpin. Edited by Rosemund Handler. Age-toning to top- and fore-edges. Illustrated end papers. Stories of witches, witchdoctors, mystics, ghosts, mermaids and mermen, shape-shifters, myths of the mountains, rivers, waterfalls and forests.
Southern Africa is a fantastic melting pot of human beings. This is its great fascination. Living here today are people whose culture is still in the late stone age, others who live in the iron age, and yet others belonging to the age of the atom. These are people from the east, from the west, from the north, people like the Bushmen who were here so far back that they always seem part of the sundrenched landscape.
In the varied scenic setting of Southern Africa, all these people in widely different ways confronted nature, come to metaphysical terms with the wonders of the land around them, devised their own explanations, myths, legends and romances about the mystery of nature, their own beginnings, the parallel community of ghosts, demons, fairies, monsters and other creatures, good and bad, of the dream world.
