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THE STORY OF THE PORTER and THE LADIES OF BAGHDAD - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 253
THE STORY OF THE PORTER and THE LADIES OF BAGHDAD - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 253
THE STORY OF THE PORTER and THE LADIES OF BAGHDAD - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 253
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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 253
In this 253rd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates “THE STORY OF THE PORTER and THE LADIES OF BAGHDAD”

Every day a porter took his place in Baghdad’s market, reclining against his crate, waiting for business. A female wrapped in an izár with gold-embroidered silk and a border of gold lace  ordered the porter to bring his crate and trolley and follow her. Thinking good fortune was smiling on him, he scrambles up and follows her around the market as she shops, filling his crate with supplies. Soon his crate is full and almost overflowing.

Then she bids him follow her home and they come to a well-appointed house. He follows her into the courtyard where she knocks upon a door. It is opened by the sister of the woman he has been serving. She orders he take it up to the kitchen. He sees a sumptuously furnished dwelling. beautifully constructed, with carved wood-work, and fountains, and benches of different kinds. He sees she is a third sister. He almost drops the crate when his eyes fall upon her beauty.

He is paid 2 pieces of gold, a veritable fortune for him, and given instructions to depart. He lingers and they think they have not paid him enough, but he is ogling them. However, they pay him another piece of gold. He is about to leave when there is a knock at the door and they are joined by three men, each with a patch over his left eye. The three strangers are entertained with food and drink and more witty conversation.

The evening continues and then some strange events take place. The men are not sure if what they see is really happening or if they are hallucinating after becoming intoxicated.

What were the stories which were told you may ask? Is what they saw and heard really real? And what became of the porter and the three beautiful women? Well, you’ll just have to download and read this story to find out – wont you?

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 in the Baba Indaba Children’s Books 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. All the places mentioned can be found using Google maps.
It is our hope that in looking up these place names using Google Maps, that young people will be able to see the images and read about other peoples and cultures from around the world. Through this, it is also our hope that young people will not only increase their understanding of world geography, but also increase their understanding and tolerance of other people and their cultures.

10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.

INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 12, 2017
ISBN9788826089829
THE STORY OF THE PORTER and THE LADIES OF BAGHDAD - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 253

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    THE STORY OF THE PORTER and THE LADIES OF BAGHDAD - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights - Anon E. Mouse

    THE STORY OF THE PORTER

    AND

    THE LADIES OF BAGHDAD

    A Fairy Tale from the Arabian Nights

    Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

    Published By

    Abela Publishing, London

    2017

    THE STORY OF THE PORTER AND THE LADIES OF BAGHDAD

    Typographical arrangement of this edition

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    Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

    ISSN 2397-9607

    Issue 253

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    An Introduction to

    Baba Indaba

    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 manner he learned the stories of the Zulu nation.

    In time the Wenxoxi Indaba grew old and when he could no longer see or hear, Baba Indaba became the next in a long line of Wenxoxi Indabas. So fond were the children of him that they continued to call him Baba Indaba – the Father of Stories.

    When the British arrived in South Africa, he made it his job to also learn their stories. He did this by going to work at the docks at the Point in Port Natal at a place the Zulu people call Ethekwene (Eh-tek-weh-nee). Here he spoke to many sailors and ships captains. Captains of ships that sailed to the far reaches of the British Empire – Canada, Australia, India, Mauritius, the Caribbean and beyond.

    He became so well known that ship’s crew would bring him a story every time they visited Port Natal. If they couldn’t, they would arrange to have someone bring it to him. This way his library of stories grew and grew until he was known far and wide as the keeper of stories – a true Wenxoxi Indaba of the world.

    Baba Indaba believes the tale he is about to tell in this little book, and all the others he has learned, are the common property of Umntwana (Children) of every nation in the world

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