{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas046n1.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas046n1.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas046n1.htm","text":"In Seidel's story of the \"Miracle of the Sidi\" (Geschichten und Lieder der Afrikaner, 105), the devil dares the Sidi to marry a slave to a princess. The father of the princess has set to her wooers the supposedly impossible task of filling a bag with hyacinths out\n{p. 290}\nof hyacinth season. The Sidi fills the bag with stones and bids the slave empty it out before the king, when the stones are by miracle turned into hyacinths.","title":"Supplementary Note 46. Why Tumble-bug Rolls in the Dung.","type":"page"}