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Notes
1 Ojo Arewa and G. M. Shrove, The Genesis of Structures in African
Narratives: Zande Trickster Tales ( New York:Conch Magazine Limited,
1975), p. 13.
2 Ibid., p. 190.
3 Robert D. Pelton, The Trickster in West Africa A Study of Mythic
Irony and Sacred Delight ( Berkeley:University of California Press, 1980), p.
36.
4 This tale was first collected in 1977 in Ifetedo (midway between Ife
and Ondo) from Taiwo Elufare. Some variants were later collected in Ondo,
Ugburowo, and Igbotako, all in Ondo State. Also see for comparison Dan Ben-Amos
, "Tortoise and the Devil", in Folklore in the Modern World, ed.
Richard M. Dorson ( The Hague. Mouton, 1978).
5 John W. Roberts, From Trickster to Badman : The Black Folk Hero
in Slavery and Freedom ( Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania press,
1989), p. 27.
6 Deidre La Pin, "Tale and Trickster in Yoruba Verbal Art", Research
in African Literature 2, no. 3 ( 1980)327.
7 Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness Afro-
American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom ( New York:Oxford
University press, 1979), p. 105.
8 Bola Olalekan made these comments during one of our narrative ses-
sions in Ikirun in August 1981.
9 The fieldwork on which this study is based was conducted in a fair-
ly leisurely manner between 1977 and 1982 among the different Yoruba
dialectal groups of Nigeria. In statistical terms, over 80 percent of the tales

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