the King (Tale 25)
Role: king · First appears: Tale 25 · Maku Mawu and Maku Fia
Life events
- The King summoned Maku Mawu and Maku Fia to Court.(Tale 25 · Maku Mawu and Maku Fia · 📍 Court)
- The King gave Maku Mawu a ring and required him to show it again in seven days or lose his head; Maku Mawu saw the King’s design and hid the ring in the wall of his room.(Tale 25 · Maku Mawu and Maku Fia · 📍 palace)
- With: Maku Mawu
- “He then made him promise to come back in seven days and show the ring to the King again, to let the latter see that it was not lost. If by any chance he could not produce the ring—he would lose his head.”
- The King sent for the wife of Maku Mawu; Maku Mawu innocently told her the ring was in the wall, and she found it and gave it to the King for the promised money.(Tale 25 · Maku Mawu and Maku Fia · 📍 the King’s palace)
- With: the wife of Maku Mawu Maku Mawu
- “Delighted, she ran off to the King’s palace and gave the ring to him. She got the promised money and returned home, never dreaming that she had really sold her husband’s life.”
- The King’s servants washed the dish containing the ring, and it fell into the water unnoticed.(Tale 25 · Maku Mawu and Maku Fia · 📍 a pool near by)
- “Among them was the dish containing the ring. Of course, when the dish was being washed, out fell the ring into the water—without being noticed by the servants.”
- Maku Mawu presented the recovered ring, and the King had no excuse to harm him, so he went free.(Tale 25 · Maku Mawu and Maku Fia · 📍 the palace)
- With: Maku Mawu
- “At once he ran off to the palace crying: ‘I have found the ring! I have found the ring!’ When the people heard him, they all shouted in joy: ‘He named himself rightly ‘Maku Mawu,’ for see—the death God has chosen for him, that only will he die.’ So the King had no excuse to harm him, and he went free.”
Tale 25 · Maku Mawu and Maku Fia
- enemies with Maku Mawu “This the King did, meaning to get hold of the ring in some way and so get the young man killed.”
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Extracted from the original text of West African Folk-Tales. Made with Rho MD.