For this week, I chose to read the unit the Stories from Congo. All of the stories in the first half of the unit was interesting but
most were very disturbing. One of the creepiest stories was The Wicked Husband.
In the story, there was a husband who got into an argument with his wife about cutting
enough plum-nuts for her. The argument turned gruesome when the husband took
the wife into the woods and chopped off her arms and legs and left her on a
table. When the husband got to the town, he told people that his wife was out
of town. The wife, still in the woods, sang a song that a hunter was able to
hear. The hunter than ran to tell his wife and also told her that she could not
tell anyone about the woman in the woods. But word got around and the Prince
heard of it. So he summoned some men to go out to the woods and fetch the woman
but she died on the way to the town from the woods. But once they found out who
the woman was, they immediately blamed her husband so they burned him under the
wife’s body. Another weird story was The Jealous Wife because it was about two
wives who had children. The child of the younger wife was brighter than the
other wife’s child, which made him jealous. So the older child killed the
younger and brighter child.
Waterways and Highways in the depths of the Congo rain forest by Michael K. Nichols
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