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Covers a wide range of Hausa stories
Story about a Giant, and the Cause of Thunder
A man literally named A-Man-among-Men goes around scaring everybody with his awesome strength and power. HE causes winds and thunder whenever he stomps. His wife gets onto him about bragging. One day his wife is at the well getting water when she encounters another wife. They exchange conversation, and the second wife goes home telling her husband about A-Man-among-Men. The husband wants to see this, so he goes to the well the next day.
A-Man-among-Men's wife and son come to the well, her son saves the man from being pulled into the well by a heavy pitcher that takes ten men to haul.The man insists on going home with them to see A-Man-among-Men. When they get home, he hides in the pantry. The whole time A-Man-among-Men keeps smelling another man in the house.
The next morning the man tries to escape, but A-Man-among-Men chases after him. The man encounters various people along the way who all tell him to just wait for AMAM to catch up with him. Each time the man asks the strangers if they can take AMAM, and each time they tell him to “pass on.”Eventually the man meets a giant who tells him to sit and wait.
When AMAM arrives, he threatens the giant. The two get into a wrestling match. They wrap their legs around each other and leap into the sky. They never came back down. Now, they wrestle forever, taking long breaks. WHenver you hear the sound of Thunder it A-Man-among-Men grappling with the giant.
