Monster/Ogre Narrative Example: The Man who Was Pregnant in the Knee with Answers
On coming back to the cave with the food, he usually sang a song so that the children could open the door for him to enter the cave.
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Monster/Ogre Narrative Example: The Man who Was Pregnant in the Knee with Answers
THE MAN WHO WAS PREGNANT IN THE KNEE (Place of Origin: Kikuyu Collected by: K.P. Ndendero) A long time ago, there was a man who was pregnant in the knee. People in his neighbourhood often told him that his knee was growing big. As time went on, the knee grew bigger and bigger. A time came when it was discovered that he would give birth. He went into a house and gave birth to three children. This man then took his three children somewhere in a cave. He gave them names, calling one girl Wanjiru. After locking the cave from the outside, the man went to look for food so that he could feed the children. On coming back to the cave with the food, he usually sang a song so that the children could open the door for him to enter the cave. He had ordered them to close the entrance from inside, and not to open to anybody else other than himself. He sang: Knee, Knee, Knee that has made me rich, Gave birth for me to three children Who I named Nyamath…
