A RAT'S TALE - A Scottish fairy tale

Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 151 ÿ In this 151st story in the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Scottish tale about Huggy the rat who lives in a corn-rick (a Corn-rick is a stack of covered hay or straw for protection from the weather.) In the middle of the night the elder rat woke up the colony and told them it was time to swarm.??. Download and read this story to find out exactly why Huggy and his friends had to vacate their premises in the middle of the night. ÿ INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES ÿ Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. ÿ Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". ÿ It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through the Middle East and Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, can be altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.