DOI: 10.5176/2251-3566_L319.392
Authors: Dr. Mabolaeng Thato Monyakane
Abstract: It is common among the Sotho that folktales are narrated to the audience as a past time by the fire side. The majority of these audience feature as children. The whole scenario of folktale performance happens in the evening when the entire household chores are completed. If anyone performs a folktale during the day s/he has to secure a twig on the head to prevent horns from growing. This gives an impression that the entire setting of telling a folktale carries messages for children and entertainment. This paper seeks to show that the adult audience also have messages directed to them during the narration of a folktale. The study will analyse Moshanyan’a Sankatana to show that apart from the stupid appearance of Kgodumodumo which eats all the people and animals as an entertaining reading, the flip side is the reading of the folktale as narrating corruption as a practice due to the imagery of eating. There is also a religious message where people are made aware of Jesus equivalent to the boy Sankatana rescuing people from sin. The study uses the reception theory to analyse Moshanyan’a Sankatana
Keywords: folktales, Mashanyan’a Sankatana, multiple messages, narration, reception theory
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