Songoula
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Songoula is a fable
of a monkey
or ape like figure, possibly a small man in Seychellois
folklore which has been told to young children in the islands down the generations.
Variations exist, and some are clear adaptions of European stories spread to the islands by sailors when the island was colonised. Many of the tales however are engrained into the landscape of the islands such as the tale of the "Songoula in the King's Pool".
Fable
A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized , and that illustrates a moral lesson , which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.A fable differs from...
of a monkey
Monkey
A monkey is a primate, either an Old World monkey or a New World monkey. There are about 260 known living species of monkey. Many are arboreal, although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent. Unlike apes, monkeys...
or ape like figure, possibly a small man in Seychellois
Seychelles
Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
folklore which has been told to young children in the islands down the generations.
Variations exist, and some are clear adaptions of European stories spread to the islands by sailors when the island was colonised. Many of the tales however are engrained into the landscape of the islands such as the tale of the "Songoula in the King's Pool".