Myths & Legends

Local Stories from Many Cultures

Inadaba! Gather 'round the kaggel (fire)...

This page is a gathering place for myths, legends, and folk tales carried across South African landscapes and cultures. Here we explore the stories told beside fires, along mine shafts, along the coast, and under wide night skies — tales that explain the world, warn the unwary, comfort the fearful, and delight the curious.

Within these pages you’ll find local legends from many traditions, woven together gently: stories of mountains that watch, ships that never arrive, creatures that steal, tease, protect, or punish, and beings that live where land and sea, light and shadow meet. Some tales are playful, others dark, and many sit somewhere in between — as all good stories do.

Here, we listen without rushing. We let the stories speak in their own voices, knowing that every culture leaves its footprints in myth.

Pull up a chair. The night is long, and the stories are old.