{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas053.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas053.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas053.htm","text":"Samuel Wright, Maroon Town, Cock-pit country.\nThere was a bird name of Woodpecker promise his mother to bury him into a stone, an' go all about an' tell all his frien' dat him gwine to bury him mother into a stone. An' de mother was poorly unto death an' he went to go an' bore a stone, an' he turn back an' said, \"Mother, I try the stone but I can't bore it. I'll bury you into a wood.\" An' he bore de wood. An' after de death of his mother, he buried him into a wood. That is the reason the wood-pecker bore the wood.","title":"53. Why Woodpecker Bores Wood.","type":"page"}