African Folklore: An Encyclopedia - Marshalls University

picong (coded remark said in jest), 46
pictograms, 458
pidgin language, 69, 168, 180
creole and, 347–349, 410
Pierrot (carnival character), 46, 49
pilgrimages, 33, 247.
See also Sigd (pilgrimage holiday)
pirate legends, 181
Piy, King, 44
Plaatjie, Solomon, 318
Plangger, A.B., 432
Plastow, Jane, 462
Platiel, Suzy, 140, 141
plays
concert parties and, 69–70
Ladipo’s, 464–465
morality, 110, 265
playwrights, 464
playwriting, 332–333
Pleiades (celestial body), 11
pluriarc, 279
poetic devices
of proverbs, 375
of riddles, 396
poetry, 308, 315.
See also izbongo;
love poems;
praise poetry
about marriages, 86
folk, 225
Fulani prose and, 365–367
heroic, 419–420, 424–426
Ibibio songs and, 491
Ijala, 316
insult, 145
of North Africa, 5–6
political oratory and, 323
southern African, 424–427, 431
tone, 172
poets, 71, 362, 363, 407
southern African, 424–428
Pokou, Aura, 119
Polaris, 13–14
Polisaro people, 506
political cartoons, 50–52
political legends, 211–212
political oratory, 322–324
politics.
See also duel-gender political system
allegory and, 3
of concert parties, 69
of proverbs, 4
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