The Lion's Whisker — East & Southern Africa (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to the highlands of Ethiopia, where a woman longs to win the love of a grieving stepson who has closed his heart to her. A wise healer sends her for an impossible ingredient — a whisker plucked from a living lion — and in the patient weeks it takes to earn the wild animal's trust, she learns the only medicine that was ever going to work. A tender tale about patience, and the slow art of opening a closed heart.
Amhara tradition, Ethiopia (East Africa). "The Lion's Whisker" (sometimes "The Lion's Whiskers")is a well-documented Ethiopian folktale of the Amhara people, retold…
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