THE BIRTH OF FINN MACCUMHAIL - An Irish Legend: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 168
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In this 168th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of “The Birth of Finn MacCumhail”.
This story sets out the events that led up to Finn’s birth and how his Grandfather tried to kill him. His Grandmother spirits him away and hides him for 5 years. At age 15 he is introduced to the community he was spirited away from. He enters a hurling competition and is recognised by his Grandfather. He and his Grandmother flee and are pursued. In the pursuit Finn’s Grandmother diers but Finn survives......…….
Download and read this story to find out what events unfold from the start of the pursuit and the other actions that occur which lead up to the birth of the legendary Fenians of Erin.
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 - all places can be found using Google maps.
In looking up these place names, using Google Maps, it is our hope that young people will click on the images and do further investigations about the people who live in these towns in order to gain an understanding of the many and varied cultures there are around the world. Through such an exercise, it is also our hope that young people will not only increase their knowledge of world geography but also increase their appreciation and tolerance of other peoples and cultures.
10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
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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 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