little Leopard

Role: son of Leopard · First appears: Tale 27 · The Leopard and the Ram

Life events

little Leopard and young Ram exchanged demonstrations of how their fathers hunted.(Tale 27 · The Leopard and the Ram)
- With: young Ram
- “Young Leopard then took one piece and placed it in position. Then, going first to the right, then to the left—bowing and standing on his hind legs and peeping at the stem just as his father did—he took aim, sprang toward the stem and tore it.”
Leopard learned from his son how Ram hunted and began watching Ram closely.(Tale 27 · The Leopard and the Ram)
- With: Leopard (Tale 27)
- “In the evening the leopard obtained all the information about the hunt from his son. The latter warned him that he must always be careful when he saw the ram go backward.”
After mistaking Ram's backward slip for an attack, Leopard fled with his son to the woods.(Tale 27 · The Leopard and the Ram)
- With: Leopard (Tale 27) Ram
- “Calling to his son to follow, he sprang with all his might over the wall of the house and fled to the woods.”

parent: Leopard (Tale 27) “One day, before setting out to hunt, Leopard requested his son to find out, if possible, from young Ram, how his father managed to kill the animals.”

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