TABULATION OF FOLK-TALES.
Generic name of story.-(Not to be filled up.)
Specific name.-Rafotsibe and Ikotofetsy and Imahaka.
Dramatis Persona.-(1) Rafotsibe; (2) Ikotofetsy; (3) Imahaka; (4) Wood-gatherers. Thread of story.-Rafotsibe, an old woman, tends sheep-she has diseased eyes-to her come Ikotofetsy and Imahaka, who salute her, and profess to be neighbours though in truth strangers. They notice her eyes, and profess to be doctors she asks for medicine-they close her eyes up with some glutinous substance-she says she can't see-they tell her she will be cured, if patient-they go off with her sheep--she is led into the town by some wood-gatherers.
Incidental circumstances.-Nil.
Where published--Translation by Miss Cameron of Legend
No. 43, of the Rev. L. Dahle's Specimens of Malagasy Folk-Lore (Antananarivo, 1877), pp. 293-294, in South African Folk-Lore Journal (Cape Town, 1880), vol. ii. part iii. pp. 45, 46.
Nature of collection, whether:-
1. Original or translation.-Translation.
2. If by word of mouth state narrator's name.-Not given.
3. Other particulars.-Nil.
Special points noted by the Editor of the above.-A much longer account of the adventures of Ikotofetsy and Imahaka was presented (in MS.) by the late Mr. Jas. Cameron, in 1865, to Grey Library. It contains ten chapters, with two in an Appendix. These (except ch. vi.) were printed by Dr. Bleek, in his paper "African Folk- Lore," part i. in Cape Monthly Mag. vol. i. pp. 174-176, and part ii. in same mag. vol. iii. pp. 334-344.
(Signed) GEO. L. APPERSON, Wimbledon.
