Reading: The Judgement of Baboon

One of the stories I read was about a tailor who claimed a mouse tore his clothing. Each character blames a character that counters them and that they dislike. For example the mouse blames the cat who blames the dog and so on and so on. When retelling this story I could change up each character and its counter part to have a whole new story. There is a lot of repetition in this story and that would be kept the same if I were to retell it with new characters. The baboon who is the judge ends up getting the worst of it by having to walk on all fours for the rest of his life.

Baboon realizing his fate Pixabay

Bibliography: The Judgement of the Baboon from South African Folk-Tales by James Honey (1910).