Week 9 Reefing Notes: Nigeria Part A

There once was a hawk that flew high in the sky. He made huge circles and used his sharp eyes to look for food. His sight was so good that nothing could escape his vision.

One day he was flying high above the ground when he spotted a beautiful hen walking along the ground. He landed on a fence post to get a better look at the hen. The hen had beautiful feathers and the hawk wanted to make her his wife. So the hawk flew down to talk to the hen's parents and asked them for her hand in marriage. They agreed but only if they payed them in corn. So that is what he did. He took the hen off to his home to live with happily.

A few months went by and along came a cock who strutted along the road. When his spurs grew out he decided that he was going to make the hen his wife. The cock found out where the hen was living and went to visit her. Outside of her home, he strutted and crowed. The hen fell in love with the cock and ran away with him back home.

The hawk got very angry at this. So he went to the king and told him what had happened. The king told the hen's parents that they must repay the hawk his corn. Being poor, the hen's parents could never do this. So the king ordered the hawk that he could eat any hens that walked along the ground until he got his earnings back.
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Author: Elphinstone Dayrell
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/nigeria-why-hawk-kills-chickens.html

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