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    THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON - The story of Formosante: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 215
    THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON - The story of Formosante: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 215
    THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON - The story of Formosante: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 215
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    THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON - The story of Formosante: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 215

    By Anon E. Mouse and Narrated by Baba Indaba

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 215

    In this 215th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Persian story of Formosante, a Princess of Babylonian. Formosante, daughter of King Belus, has turned 18 and her father holds a tournament for would be suitors. The winner would be given her hand in marriage.Kings and princes attended some riding on Elephants, others riding tigers. The Egyptian Pharaoh appeared on a chariot drawn by Hippopotami. Try as they might none could succeed in drawing the Bow of Nimrod – except the man on the unicorn.

    You are invited to download and read the story of Formosante. Find out what the outcome of the tournament was, and just where did the man on the unicorn come from?

    Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

    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.

    33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateMay 5, 2017
    ISBN9788826085432
    THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON - The story of Formosante: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 215

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      THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON - The story of Formosante - Anon E. Mouse

      THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON

      An Eastern Fairy Tale of babylon and Egypt

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

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      Abela Publishing, London

      2016

      THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      ©Abela Publishing 2016

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      Abela Publishing,

      London, United Kingdom

      2016

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      ISSN 2397-9607

      Issue 215

      Email: Books@AbelaPublishing.com

      Website: www.AbelaPublishing.com

      An Introduction to Baba Indaba

      Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.

      In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.

      In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have to recite the story back to the Wenxoxi Indaba, word for word. In this manner he learned the stories of the Zulu nation.

      In time the Wenxoxi Indaba grew old and when he could no longer see or hear, Baba Indaba became the next in

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