New #folktale after a hiatus, and this one is from the Xhosa people in South Africa, and it has all the goodies of folk lore. A haunted ground. A spirit bird that makes milk. Children outwitting their greedy parents who would rather see them starve than share the milk from the bird. It's dark, but has a happy ending, sort of.
See more like this #OdodoStories
https://www.ododopress.com/african-folk-tales/the-bird-that-made-milk/
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