Thirty-Two Folk-Tales of the E do-Speaking Peoples of Nigeria

THESE stories were collected in the northern part of the Edo area in 1909-10, and are mainly from the Ora and Kukuruku tribes; Irua lies in the E §a country a little to the south-east of the Ora-Kukuruku boundary ; but the difference is practically unimportant; they might well be reckoned to the Agbedc group, whose near neighbours they are.The Ora country is bordered on the south by the Edo proper, on the west by the Yoruba at If §, on the north by the Kukuruku, who also form part of the eastern boundary, together with the ESa.Ora and ESa are both very near, linguistically, to the Edo proper ; ESa was subject to gdo till some sixty years ago when Adolo, king of Edo, fought his elder brother, who had established himself in the ESacountry, and was defeated.There is a good deal of intermarriage between Ora and ESa women and gdo men.The Kukuruku appear to have a Sobo element, which fled from the south of the gdo area to escape the exactions of the king of gdo ; they are dwellers mainly in the hill country, but how long they have been established there it is difficult to say ; their language is split up into numerous tongues so diverse that towns a few miles apart cannot understand one another.The list of the kings of Qkpe suggests that the separation of the Edo and Kukuruku may go back six hundred years ; but this does not neces sarily apply to other sections of the Kukuruku

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