Trickster Narrative: An Old Woman and her Deformed Son Questions with Answers
One morning she said to the old woman, “Mother, today will you go to look for firewood while I go to the plantation alone?” The old woman said, “Yes,
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Trickster Narrative: An Old Woman and her Deformed Son Questions with Answers
An Example of a Trickster Narrative An
Old Woman and her Deformed Son There
was an old woman whose children died in infancy and only a deformed boy
survived to grow into adulthood. The boy was a hunchback. Although
the old woman loved this hunchback son of hers, she was secretly ashamed of his
physical appearance. She was so ashamed that each day she was on the lookout
for visitors who might come around just to make fun of him. To keep him away
from the public eye, she used to confine him in a drum most of the time. So,
right from his childhood the boy grew up in a drum. He was taken out only a few
times during the day when the old woman was sure that there were likely to be
no intruders around. When the boy attained circumcision age, he was duly
circumcised. After circumcision, he told the old woman, “Mother, I now want a
wife, can you please find me a girl to marry!” “Yes, my son”, said the old
woman. “I will try. I am indeed very pleased to learn that you are already
thinking of a wi…
