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An Ọ̀yọ́ variant of the magic yam-rock tale in which the rock opens to a song rather than a command, and Ìjàpá betrays his friend by bringing the whole country to empty the store.

A tale in which Ajá the dog plants the leaves Ìjàpá threw in his face, grows a tree that bears agidi, and repays the insult exactly, with the tortoise killed by a falling stone when he tries the same song.

A drought tale in which every large animal fails to reach the water and the despised tortoise solves it by asking one question, then is trampled by the animals coming to thank him.

A tale in which Ìjàpá roasts a pig in a covered fire-trench and loses the whole carcass to a dog blacksmith who stalls him over a seventh knife, explaining why dogs keep away from tortoises.

What John Parkinson's Ọ̀yọ́ tale collection contains, why its stated provenance is unusually candid for its period, and how to read its editor's comparative footnotes.

An Ọ̀yọ́ aetiological tale in which a tiny rat's three enormous sons are each driven off by a farm-robbing bird, until the ram fights him into the ground and the noise of that fight becomes thunder.

An Ọ̀yọ́ tale in which a hunter stakes his life against a village head's on the existence of a sixteen-tailed ape, plays dead to kill it, and wins a bet the community afterwards condemns.