Once there were two women with disabilities who together were left enclosed in a grass thatched house. One was visually impaired and the other physically impaired. They were left with their food and their water and also could ease themselves inside.

A cannibal often came around the house searching for the door to enter, but couldn’t find the way in.

On one particular day he was tired and said to himself, “I have been moving around from village to village and I’ve never found a house which does not have a door!”  The women told the cannibal, “Let us construct a door and you start from outside and continue from inside.”

After they were done, the cannibal came inside the house and both women were so scared, but the cannibal just laughed at them and their fear. Then the physically disabled woman told the blind one, “You are going to carry me and I will lead us on the way.”
When they were moving the physically disabled woman saw another cannibal and told her “Sister, I am scared!” The blind woman asked her, “Should I throw you down?” and she said “No!”

They continued moving in a faulty movement and the cannibal laughed at them; he laughed so hard he lost his way and he disappeared. The women went into the bush and hid there until they were found and brought back home.

Reflections:

1) What does this story teach us about cooperation?

 

Storyteller: Nyadoal

Storytelling Session Details

Storyteller: Nyadoal
Language: Nuer
Community: Nuer (originally from Rubkona, living in UNMISS PoC at time of project)
Story Researcher: Nyechuol Ruai
Place: Juba PoC
Date: 2015