Ethiopian Folktales

Narrated by Oyta Arro

There are nine tribes in Tsemay. They once had this incest, a mother with her son and father with his daughter (which was wrong) and there was no death.

But God one day said, “You have sinned with incest and you will be punished.”

So all diseases were created, such as lung diseases, and people began to die.

And then God gave nine girls each to the nine tribes which are included in the Tsemay nationality, and after that, people refrained from sin and lived happily.