非洲民间故事有哪些

1、大象的起源

相传，一个十分贫穷的人去请教一个善人如何减轻他的痛苦，他拒绝了善人救济他的礼物：牛与羊，而选择问他如何能使自己变得富有，那名善人给出了一个奇怪的回答，他给了那名穷人一瓶膏药让他涂在他妻子的虎牙上，然后等牙长长了拿来卖钱。

他照着善人所说的去做了，果真他的妻子长出了一双硕大的牙，于是他拿到集市上卖，意想不到的是，他居然用牙换回了一群的牛羊。可是他的妻子拒绝了他再次拔牙的请求，于是她的牙越长越大，她的身体也越长越大，皮肤变得也越来越糙，终于他们的草房容不下她。

于是她冲出了他们的房间，而奔向森林，成为了一只大象。当他的丈夫找到她时，她已经繁殖了好多只健康的小象，在丛林中自在地游荡。

2、人类的起源

创世神乔奥克想要造人，他拿起泥土说：人必须能去田野里工作，所以得有火烈鸟般的双腿。人还要会种植黍粟，所以得有两条手臂，一只手拿锹，一只手拔草。接着又捏出了眼睛、嘴巴、舌头和耳朵，创造出既能自己生存，又懂得敬拜他的人类。

3、三个朋友

有一天三个朋友出去玩，结果年龄最小的人捡到了一箱装满钱币的纸箱。他的两个朋友知道了这件事，想骗走他的钱。于是他们把一个猎人叫过来，躲进路边的树洞里，让他按要求在洞里说话。年轻人问他两个朋友钱在哪里，两个人回答：被树抢走了。

树洞里的猎人开始说话：“没错就是我。”年轻人听到“树”在说话，吓得赶快逃跑了。他跑到皇宫向国王诉说了这件奇怪的事情。国王来到了树旁边，用智慧揭穿了三人的骗局，给年轻人了公平。

故事中国王很聪明，也很勇敢。当猎人装成魔鬼时，他不害怕，而是认真地搜索了一下现场。发现了足印之后，又下令用柴火烧掉树，让猎人忍不住跑出来。国王临危不惧和冷静思考问题的精神值得我们学习。但是年轻人的朋友和猎人不应该骗年轻人，因为谎言终究会被揭穿。

4、比赛

有一天，一只变色龙邀请一只大象在第二天跟他赛跑，大象接受了。这天夜里，变色龙让他的几个兄弟一段一个地沿比赛的路线藏好。黎明来临时，大象出现了；他迎接了变色龙，便开始赛跑。就在这时，变色龙敏捷地在大象的尾巴上找到了一个栖身之地，而大象却没有发觉。

一路上，大象每遇到变色龙的一个兄弟，便问道：“你还不累吗？”可是回答总是一个“不累。”一直到了变色龙最后一个兄弟等着的地方，变色龙才从大象的尾巴上跳下来，然后开始自己去跑最后的一段路程。这时，大象已经累得筋疲力尽。他承认变色龙是这次比赛的胜利者。

5、对损人利己者的惩罚

冠鹤和珍珠鸡交了好朋友。有一天，冠鹤对珍珠鸡说：“我们一起到豪萨国去吧！”珍珠鸡说：“我很乐意陪你去。”冠鹤收拾好东西，将许多料子和别的东西打成一大包。它对珍珠鸡说：“请你帮我背着！”珍珠鸡嘀咕道：“我是你的朋友，又不是你的行李夫。”

冠鹤说：“要是你连这点事都不肯帮我做，那你就是一个坏朋友。”珍珠鸡只好将行李顶在头上，动身上路它俩走了一阵，来封一棵大树下。珍珠鸡将那一大包东西放了下来。它俩在树下休息了一会儿，准备重新上路时，珍珠鸡对冠鹤说：“我已背了好长一段路了，现在你自己该背一段路啦。”

冠鹤说：“我感到身体不舒服。在这情况下，要是你都不肯帮我背点东西的话，那你就是一个坏朋友。”珍珠鸡只好又顶着这一大包东西，继续走了。它们每天都是如此走着。终于，它们看到了豪萨国。珍珠鸡背着东西在前面走，冠鹤仍空着手在后面跟着。

到了城里后，珍珠鸡说：“现在这些东西全归我了。”“什么？”冠鹤大吃一惊，“怎么说这些东西是你的？”珍珠鸡说：“我一直替你背着这些东西。如果你连这点东西都不肯送给我的话，那你就是一个坏朋友。”“我们找法官评理去。”冠鹤发急了。

它们到了法官那里，冠鹤抢着说：“就是这只珍珠鸡，它想拿走我的行李。”珍珠鸡说：“有许多人与我们同路来的。它们都能证明：不是它，而是我一直背着这包东西。”法官将证人请来。这些人都说：“这包东西路上一直是珍珠鸡背着的。”于是，法官判决：“这些东西全归珍珠鸡所有。”两位朋友便回去了。

冠鹤对珍珠鸡说：“让我们去问问自己家乡的国王，这包东西应该归谁所有？”珍珠鸡说：“我很乐意这么做。”它们便往回赶路，回到家乡后，它们便一起去我国王。冠鹤说：“这是我的东西，可是珍珠鸡却硬要拿走。”

珍珠鸡说：“这不是它的东西，这是我的东西。因为这些东西是我用头一直顶到豪萨国，又从那儿顶着回来的。”国王说：“你们各自将帽子脱下！”它们都脱下了帽子，珍珠鸡的头顶完全秃了，而冠鹤却长着又长又美丽的冠毛。国王说：“这里谁都已看到是怎么一回事了。、

要是天天头上顶着东西，那冠鹤肯定不会长着这么长而美丽的冠毛的；珍珠鸡由于顶东西，头发全都磨光了。这包东西理当归珍珠鸡所有。”从此，珍珠鸡老是叫着：“埃梯那拉卡拉乌佐啊！”意思是说：“凡头上顶东西的人，就要掉头发。”

而冠鹤则是叫着：“乌切啊啦，乌切啊啦，乌切啊啦！”它的意思是：“我们分手啦，我们分手啦！”

African folktales 1. The origin of elephants According to legend, a very poor man went to ask a good man how to alleviate his pain. He refused the good man's gift of relief: cattle and sheep, and chose to ask him how to make himself rich. The good man gave a strange answer. He gave the poor man a bottle of plaster to put on his wife's tiger teeth, and then sold it for money when the teeth grew long. He did as the good man said, and sure enough, his wife grew a pair of huge teeth, so he took it to the market to sell, and unexpectedly, he actually exchanged his teeth for a herd of cattle and sheep. But his wife refused his request for another tooth extraction, so her teeth grew bigger and bigger, her body grew bigger and bigger, her skin became more and more rough, and finally their thatched cottage could not accommodate her. So she rushed out of their room and ran into the forest, becoming an elephant. By the time her husband found her, she had bred many healthy baby elephants and was wandering freely in the jungle. 2. The origin of mankind Joe Oak, the God of Creation, wanted to make man. He picked up the earth and said, "Man must be able to work in the fields, so he must have legs like a flamingo.". People also need to be able to plant millet, so they have to have two arms, one with a shovel and the other pulling weeds. Then he pinched out his eyes, mouth, tongue and ears, creating humans who could live on their own and worship him. 3. Three friends One day, three friends went out to play, and the youngest one found a box full of coins. Two of his friends found out about it and tried to cheat him out of his money. So they called a hunter over and hid in a tree hole by the side of the road and asked him to talk in the hole as required. The young man asked his two friends where the money was, and they answered, "The tree took it away.". The hunter in the tree hole began to speak. "Yes, that's me." The young man was frightened to run away when he heard the tree talking. He ran to the palace and told the king about the strange thing. The king came to the tree and used his wisdom to expose the three men's deception and give the young man justice. In the story, the king is very clever and brave. When the hunter pretended to be a devil, he was not afraid, but carefully searched the scene. After finding the footprints, he ordered the tree to be burned with firewood, so that the hunter could not help running out. The king's spirit of fearlessness and calm thinking in the face of danger is worth learning. But young people's friends and hunters should not lie to young people, because lies will eventually be exposed. 4. Competition One day, a chameleon invited an elephant to race with him the next day, and the elephant accepted. That night, the chameleon asked his brothers to hide along the route of the race one by one. When dawn came, the elephant appeared; he met the chameleon and began the race. At that moment, the chameleon quickly found a place on the elephant's tail, but the elephant did not notice it. Along the way, every time the elephant met one of the chameleon's brothers, he asked, "Aren't you tired?" But the answer is always "not tired." It was not until it reached the place where its last brother was waiting that the chameleon jumped down from the elephant's tail and began to run the last part of the way by himself. By this time, the elephant was exhausted. He admitted that the chameleon was the winner of the competition. 5. Punishment of those who benefit themselves at the expense of others Crowned cranes and guinea fowls have made good friends. One day, the crowned crane said to the guinea fowl, "Let's go to Hausa together." "I'll be glad to go with you," said the guinea fowl. The crowned crane packed up his things and packed a lot of materials and other things into a big bag. He said to the Guinea Fowl, "Please help me carry it." "I'm your friend, not your porter," muttered the guinea fowl. "If you won't help me with this, you are a bad friend," said the crowned crane. The guinea-fowl had to put her luggage on her head and set off on the road. They walked for a while to seal under a big tree. The guinea-fowl put down the big package. They rested for a while under the tree, and when they were ready to go again, the guinea-fowl said to the crowned crane, "I have carried it a long way, and now you must carry it yourself." "I don't feel well," said the crowned crane. In this case, if you won't help me carry something, then you are a bad friend. The guinea-fowl had to carry this big bag of things and continue to walk. They walk like this every day. Finally, they saw Hausa. The guinea-fowl walked in front with her back on her back, and the crowned crane followed empty-handed. When they reached the city, the guinea fowl said, "Now all these things belong to me." "What?" The crowned crane was astonished. "How do you say these things are yours?" "I have been carrying these things for you," said the Guinea Fowl. You're a bad friend if you won't even give me this. "Let's go to the judge." The crowned crane is in a hurry. When they got to the judge, the crowned crane said, "This is the Guinea Fowl. He wants to take my luggage." "There are many who have come with us," said the guinea-fowl. They all prove that it's not it, but I've been carrying this bag. The judge called in the witness. These people all say: "This bag thing is carried on the back of Guinea-fowl all the time on the way." So the judge ruled, "All these things belong to the guinea fowl." The two friends went back. The crowned crane said to the guinea-fowl, "Let us go and ask the king of our own country who should have this package." "I'll be glad to do it," said the guinea fowl. They went back on their way, and when they got home, they went to my king together. "This is mine," said the crowned crane, "but the guinea fowl insists on taking it away." "This is not his stuff," said the Guinea Fowl. "This is my stuff. Because I carried these things with my head all the way to Hausa and back from there. "Take off your hats, each of you," said the king. They all took off their hats, and the head of the guinea fowl was completely bald, while the crowned crane had a long and beautiful crest. "Everyone here has seen what is going on," said the king. If he had carried something on his head every day, the crowned crane would not have had such a long and beautiful crest, and the guinea fowl's hair was all polished by the thing. This package belongs to the guinea fowl. From then on, the guinea-fowl would cry, "O Ettinarakaraouzo!" It means: "Anyone who carries something on his head will lose his hair." But the crowned crane cried, "Uche, Uche, Uche!" It means, "I."