How Leopard Got His Spots: Two Stories
Two competing aetiologies of the leopard's markings printed consecutively by one collector, one in which Akiti the hunter's arrows leave dark marks on an invulnerable leopard, and one in which a bathing woman throws her soapy loofah at him.
Coletor
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Como era apresentado
Evening telling, treated in `yoruba-alo`. Both are short. The second ends on a rhymed couplet, which in performance would be the memorable part and is the likeliest candidate for a sung or chanted close, though the source does not say so. Ogumefu's decision to print them consecutively, with "according to another story" as the join, may reflect how she received them or may be an editorial arrangement. The corpus records the arrangement and does not infer a performance practice from it.
O conto em resumo
Two explanations of the leopard's markings, printed one after the other by M. I. Ogumefu in 1929, with the second introduced as "another story". In the first, the leopard eats a magic root that makes him invulnerable, and the hunter Akiti's poisoned arrows leave a dark mark wherever they strike without wounding him. In the second, a leopard prowling round a bathing hut is hit in the face with a soap-filled loofah and has been flecked ever since. They are given together because their being consecutive in one collection is the interesting fact. `alo-why-the-tortoise-shell-is-marked` makes the same point at greater length using Parkinson's three shell-origin tales: the tradition tolerated competing aetiologies and a collector could print two without reconciling them.
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A canção
Original
The Yorùbá is not given. Ogumefu prints this couplet in English only.
Glosa literal
- No Yorùbá text provided in source to gloss.
Inglês idiomático
She flung it at him and he fled, But to this day the Leopard still Is flecked with soap from foot to head! Translator: M. I. Ogumefu
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Variantes
These two are themselves the variant pair, and no third explanation was located by this compiler. No Yorùbá-language version of either was located, and neither has a second collector.