Week 6 Reading Diary: Worms and Ants

I chose to read a Nigerian tale for this weeks reading because when thinking about it, I have never really heard anything about the Nigerian traditions at all yet alone their folklore. The worms who live underground was the name of the reading I chose; the title alone is what got my attention to read this story. This Nigerian tale tells the story of why worms live underground, which is because the ants scared them down there one day. This story is interesting because it gives a creative and different meaning behind something that is already known (literally why worms live underground). When thinking about adapting this story my first idea is to write about why fish live in the sea and argue that one day birds "scared" them into the oceans, seas, and lakes; an interesting explanation to something so natural we do not even questing its reasoning.

(The Strong Ant: Source)

These thoughts were recorded after reading the story entitled Why the Worms Live Underneath the Ground, by Elphinstone Dayrell in 1910.