Reading
Diary #6, continued: Nigerian Folklore
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The
Story of the Lighting and the Thunder: The king had
the thunder and lightning live on the other side of the town, so they would be
as far away as possible from other people’s houses. The thunder was an old
mother sheep, and the thunder was her son, a ram. The ram had an anger issue, in which when he
got angry he would burn down houses, knocked down trees, did damage on the
farms, and sometimes killed people. The old mother sheep would have to call out
to him to stop doing damage, but the ram did not listen to his mother.
The
people ended getting tired of the ram’s actions, and complained to the king.
The king decided on ordering the sheep (Thunder) and her son, the ram
(Lighting) to leave town and live in the far forest. This did not help their
problem because when the ram got angry he would burn the forest, and the flames
from the forest would spread to the farms and consume them. This led to the
king banishing the lighting and the thunder from living on earth and made them
move up into the sky, so they would not be able to cause anymore destruction. Ever
since that has happened, when the lighting gets angry, he still commits acts of
damage just as he did before, but you also hear his mother, the thunder,
rebuking him for his actions and yelling at him to stop.
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