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    FINN MACCUMHAIL AND THE KNIGHT OF THE FULL AXE - An Irish Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 98
    FINN MACCUMHAIL AND THE KNIGHT OF THE FULL AXE - An Irish Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 98
    FINN MACCUMHAIL AND THE KNIGHT OF THE FULL AXE - An Irish Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 98
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    FINN MACCUMHAIL AND THE KNIGHT OF THE FULL AXE - An Irish Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 98

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 98
    In Issue 98 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates a legend of Finn MacCumhail. Finn is challenged by a Giant and comes off second best. The Knight of the Full Axe appears and saves him and spirits him away to heal him. Once Finn has recovered their adventures begin…… But what are these adventures? You’ll have to download this story to read of the adventures of Finn MacCumhail and the Knight of the Full Axe.

    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, on map. HINT - use Google maps.

    BUY ANY 4 BABA INDABA CHILDREN'S STORIES FOR ONLY $1
    33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
    INCLUDES LINKS TO 8 FREE STORIES TO DOWNLOADS
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateApr 7, 2017
    ISBN9788826071695
    FINN MACCUMHAIL AND THE KNIGHT OF THE FULL AXE - An Irish Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 98

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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

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