Myths and legends of Southern Africa By Penny Miller
Myths and legends of Southern Africa By Penny Miller
Hardcover
ISBN 0949956163
Publisher: T.V. Bulpin Publications Ltd 1979
Used - Good. Ex Library book with expected stamps, pastings and tape residue. The covers have some edge and spine wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book is still in a good condition and for an ex library book and has reasonably been maintained thus far. The book is protected with a new 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.
