Baskadia

King of the animals lost it glory (African legend)

In a friendly atmosphere in early hours of the night with the moon giving an amazing light an old woman sits in the midst of children, young men and women under a mango tree entertaining them with pleasant tale

Once upon a time it was a bright day when life began in the animal kingdom and all animals exchanging pleasantries with one another but everyone was fearful of the cock because it was having something like fire on it head which is it comb, all animals gave great honour to the cock as they are scared that the fire it has might consume them and therefore the cock became the king of all the animals, no one dares to near or offend him, all his wishes are being carried out immediately but he had no friends except his family, this wasn't exciting and he decided to visit the tortoise and sighting the cock he ran out as fast as he could but he (the cock)pleaded with him to come back as he has an amazing secret to reveal to him and tortoise slowly drew nearer, the cock began by touching his comb, you see tortoise it is not fire come and touch it and tortoise slowly touch it and he touched it for five times and was fully convinced that it was not fire, then he raised an alarm that made all animals to assemble in his home and at first sighting the cock they want to disperse but tortoise was seen holding the comb of the cock which they believed to be fire and getting to know the full story from tortoise, all the animals gathered and gave the cock a crazy beating and he lost it glory till date.