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The story is a reformatting of a childhood folktale among the Yorùbá people of Nigeria, made available by the Africa StoryBook Project. The narrative follows Adun, an exceptionally beautiful woman desired by many. She is ultimately tricked into marrying a man composed of borrowed body parts. As Adun journeys with him, the parts are reclaimed, leaving only the head. Despite her fear, Adun accompanies the head to his home, where he instructs Tortoise to sound a horn if she attempts to escape. The story explores themes of beauty, deception, and consequence, rooted in Nigerian folklore, and is presented as a cultural heritage piece under a permissive copyright allowing adaptation and commercial use.","Adun, the beautiful  \nWriter: Taiwo Ẹhinẹni Illustration: Wiehan de Jager Translated By: Taiwo Ẹhinẹni  \nEnglish Story Book  \nAdun, the beautiful  \nWriter: Taiwo Ẹhinẹni Illustration: Wiehan de Jager  \nTranslated By: Taiwo Ẹhinẹni Reformatted for Bloom By: Cara Ediger  \nEnglish  \nAdun, the beautiful  \nWriter: Taiwo Ẹhinẹni Illustration: Wiehan de Jager  \nTranslated By: Taiwo Ẹhinẹni Language: English  \nThis story is based on a childhood folktale among the Yorùbá people of Nigeria.  \nSaide, South African Institute for Distance Education [www.africanstorybook.org](www.africanstorybook.org)  \nA Saide Initiative  \nCopyright © 2015, Africa StoryBook Project  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nAdun was very beautiful. All the men in her village wanted to marry her. But Adun refused them all.  \nOne market day, a man borrowed legs from another man, and arms from another, and a body from a third man .  \nThen this man joined all the parts together. He put his head on top and went to the market.  \nThis man wanted Adun and was determined to marry her . Adun was pleased by his appearance. She wanted to be with him. The man came from a far town, and Adun decided to return with him.  \nAs Adun and the man journeyed to his place, the owner of the legs took the legs back.  \nThen the owner of the arms took his arms back.  \nAnd finally the owner of the body took that back.  \nOnly the head was left, and the head went on . Adun was scared but she did not run away. They arrived at the house of the head.  \nThe following morning, before the head went to his farm, he spoke to Tortoise.“If Adun tries to escape, blow this horn to tell me,” said the head.","cbCailMQpnxzXm6B","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailMQpnxzXm6B","pdf",7971873,19,"English","en",105,"# Adun, the beautiful\n## Writer: Taiwo Ẹhinẹni\n## Illustration: Wiehan de Jager\n## Translated By: Taiwo Ẹhinẹni\n## This story is based on a childhood folktale among the Yorùbá people of Nigeria.\n## Adun was very beautiful.","[{\"question\":\"What is the origin of the story \\\"Adun, the beautiful\\\"?\",\"answer\":\"The story is based on a childhood folktale among the Yorùbá people of Nigeria.\"},{\"question\":\"Who are the creators of the storybook?\",\"answer\":\"The storybook was written by Taiwo Ẹhinẹni, illustrated by Wiehan de Jager, and translated by Taiwo Ẹhinẹni. 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