African Tale
Crocodile Skin
The African folk tale reveals why crocodiles have such a rough and scaly skin. It wasn’t always like this though. The story teaches that much pride can be harmful.
A tiger was strolling the woods one day when the most unfortunate accident happened to him. He stumbled and plummeted down into a deep
The pit was too deep, and the walls were too steep. The tiger called for help, but no one answered. He screamed and shouted until he nearly lost his voice but to no
The tiger had shouted himself hoarse and he was now so hungry his belly started
Suddenly, he heard approaching
“Who's there?” asked a human face that peeped over the edge of the hole, only to disappear again in fear a second later. “Oh no! It's a tiger!” he cried.
“Don’t run away, human, please,” begged the tiger. “Please, help me. Get me out of here. I promise I won’t hurt
“I’m sorry, tiger,” the human called back. “I’m sorry this has happened to you, but I just can’t trust you. If I helped you out, you’d surely eat me.”
“I swear to you, human, I won’t touch a hair on your head!” promised the tiger. “I will forever be in your debt! Really!”
In the end, the human took pity on the poor tiger. He dragged over a dead trunk and pushed it down into
He didn’t…