the two brothers (Tale 35)

Role: brothers · First appears: Tale 35 · How Mushrooms First Grew

Life events

• The brothers fled their creditors into the woods and became highway robbers.(Tale 35 · How Mushrooms First Grew)
  • “Their creditors gave them no peace, so at last they ran away into the woods. They became highway robbers.”
• The brothers decided to return home, farm, and gradually pay off their debts.(Tale 35 · How Mushrooms First Grew)
  • “At last they decided to go home, make a big farm, and pay off their debts gradually.”
• The brothers trapped the bushfowl and told it their debts would be transferred to it.(Tale 35 · How Mushrooms First Grew)
  • With: the bushfowl (Tale 35)
  • “That evening the bushfowl was caught in it. The two brothers, when they came and found the bird, told it that now all their debts would be transferred to it because it had robbed them of the means of paying the debts themselves.”

Tale 35 · How Mushrooms First Grew

• enemies with the bushfowl (Tale 35) “The two brothers, when they came and found the bird, told it that now all their debts would be transferred to it because it had robbed them of the means of paying the debts themselves.”

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Extracted from the original text of West African Folk-Tales. Made with Rho MD.