LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 50, GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C. These folk stories have been told to me by natives of the various countries to which they relate in the Ikom district of Southern Nigeria. In all cases they have had to be translated by an interpreter, and frequently it has been found necessary to employ two. Some of the stories are very old and have been handed down from one generation to another, but it is most difficult, almost impossible, to judge with any degree of accuracy how old they really are. The word “dowry” comes frequently into these tales, and is used as meaning the amount paid to the parents of the gi…
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