The Tar Baby by Wagner Bryan;

Author:Wagner, Bryan;
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

FIG. 6.1. Edward Gorey, “[The Fox Sneaks Away].” Color pen and ink. From Ennis Rees, Brer Rabbit and His Tricks, with Drawings by Edward Gorey (New York: Young Scott Books, 1967). By permission of the Edward Gorey Estate.

TWELVE EXAMPLES

FIG. 7.1. Robert Lee, “Twelve Examples of the Tar Baby Story.” Produced for this volume.

SOUTH AFRICA

1879

“The Story of the Dam” was published in July 1879 in The Folk-Lore Journal, a publication based in Cape Town, South Africa, whose purpose was to preserve superstitions, legends, and ballads discovered in the colonies. This version was common among the Khoikhoi, an ethnic group in southwestern Africa whom Dutch colonizers called “Hottentots.” The story was submitted by Thomas Bain, a colonial road engineer and mineralogist, who remembered it from his youth. The story begins with a drought and shows the animals, led by the lion, working together to build a dam. The free rider, in this case, is the jackal, who is able to outwit several guards until he is caught by the proverbial tar baby, in this case, a tortoise with bijenwerk, a sticky black substance taken from beehives, smeared on his back.

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