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    THE WIDOW’S SON - A Scandinavian Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 391
    THE WIDOW’S SON - A Scandinavian Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 391
    THE WIDOW’S SON - A Scandinavian Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 391
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    THE WIDOW’S SON - A Scandinavian Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 391

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 391

    In this 391st issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "THE WIDOW’S SON”.
    A long time ago and far, far away, in a land of ice and snow called Scandinavia, which is at the top of the world, a poor, poor Widow, who had an only Son battled to bring him up. After he had been confirmed, she said she couldn’t feed him any longer and that he must go out and earn his own bread. So the lad wandered out into the world, and when he had walked a day or so, a strange man met him.
    The man asked what he was about. The boy told him and the man offered him a position where he would be cared for. “You’ll only have to keep me company, and do nothing at all else beside.” So the boy agreed and went to live in the man’s house. There they lived on the fat of the land, both in meat and drink, and had little or nothing to do.

    One day the man said:  “I’m going off for eight days, and that time you’ll have to spend here all alone; but you must not go into any one of these four rooms here. If you do, your life will be forfeit.” To this the boy agreed. Even so, once the man went away, he went into the first room. What did he see? Also, what happened when the man returned you ask…? Well many things happened, some silly and some serious. To find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find the answers to your questions!

    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 of the 390+ Baba Indaba Children’s Stories on Google Play using the URL listed in the book.
    ALSO 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 dateAug 10, 2017
    ISBN9788822810328
    THE WIDOW’S SON - A Scandinavian Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 391

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      THE WIDOW’S SON - A Scandinavian Fairy Tale - Anon E. Mouse

      THE WIDOW’S SON

      A Scandinavian Fairy Tale

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      Published By

      Abela Publishing, London

      2017

      THE WIDOW’S SON

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      ©Abela Publishing 2017

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      Abela Publishing,

      London, United Kingdom

      2017

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      ISSN 2397-9607

      Issue 391

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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

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