Public oral-tradition summaries
living tradition contextancient onward
RestrictedNot for display
public and permission-safe material only
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Ancestor veneration, spirits, creator traditions, divination, ritual authority, oral transmission, and ethical handling.
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A public-domain collection of Southern Nigerian folk stories gathered by Elphinstone Dayrell and introduced by Andrew Lang, useful for comparative folklore, trickster, origin-story, kingship, and spirit-world motifs.
A public-domain Gold Coast / West African folk-tale collection with Anansi cycles, origin tales, animal tales, kingship stories, and comparative folklore motifs.
public and permission-safe material only
Do not publish restricted ritual material.
Project Gutenberg source; public-domain candidate in the USA.
Good public-domain African Traditional Religions/folklore expansion candidate. Import as folklore/story source with collector framing, not as formal scripture.
Source recordProject Gutenberg source; public-domain candidate in the USA.
Good public-domain expansion for Anansi and West African tale motifs. Keep collector/source context visible and do not flatten regional traditions into one category.
Source recordRestricted or initiatory material should stay out unless a source is clearly public and appropriate to display.