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    PRESTER JOHN - A Romanian Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 136
    PRESTER JOHN - A Romanian Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 136
    PRESTER JOHN - A Romanian Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 136
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    PRESTER JOHN - A Romanian Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 136

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 136
    In this 136th bedtime story from Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Romanian legend of Prester John a fictitious king of a Christian Kingdom in East Central Asia who was rumoured to be sending an army to assist wrest back the Holy Land. ........…… Download and read the legend of Prester John and how the legend came to be.

    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.

    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
    33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateApr 25, 2017
    ISBN9788826078779
    PRESTER JOHN - A Romanian Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 136

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      PRESTER JOHN - A Romanian Legend - 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,

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