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    ZLATOVLASKA THE GOLDEN-HAIRED - A Slovak Folk Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 74
    ZLATOVLASKA THE GOLDEN-HAIRED - A Slovak Folk Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 74
    ZLATOVLASKA THE GOLDEN-HAIRED - A Slovak Folk Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 74
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    ZLATOVLASKA THE GOLDEN-HAIRED - A Slovak Folk Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 74

    By Anon E Mouse and Narrated by Baba Indaba

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 74
    In Issue 74 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Slovak tale of Zlatovlaska  the Golden-Haired, also known as “Yirik And The Snake.” A cook disobeys his king and tastes a meal to a magic recipe and learns the speech of animals. His animal speaking triggers adventure after adventure, and the empathy he feels and shows to the animals secures his ultimate success. How did his ability to speak “Animal” help him and what did his ultimate success look like. Well, you’ll have to download and read the story to find out what happened.

    Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

    Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.

    BUY ANY 4 BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES FOR ONLY $1, 6 for $1.50, 8 for $2 etc.
    33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateApr 6, 2017
    ISBN9788826071237
    ZLATOVLASKA THE GOLDEN-HAIRED - A Slovak Folk Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories Issue 74

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      ZLATOVLASKA THE GOLDEN-HAIRED - A Slovak Folk Tale - Anon E Mouse

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      Introduction

      Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.

      In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.

      In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have to recite the story back to the Wenxoxi Indaba, word for word. In this

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