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After a week-long celebration, each animal returns home, and Lion receives visitors as their ruler. When Hyena finds Lion sick in bed with an incurable illness, Hyena claims Hare knows the cure, primarily to stir trouble, and Lion sends Hyena to fetch Hare to heal him.","Lion Gets Sick  \nA traditional folktale from the Nyungwe people of Mozambique  \nEnglish  \nTraditional Story  \nLion Gets Sick  \nA traditional folktale from the Nyungwe people of Mozambique. Images by Claudio Molina, © 2013 Little Zebra Books. CC BY-SA 4.0.  \nWritten by Francisco Escondido.  \nEnglish  \nSouth Africa  \nBeautiful books for children in African languages  \nCopyright © 2026, Little Zebra Books  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nThis book is an adaptation of the original, O Leão fica doente, Copyright © 2022, Little Zebra Books. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.  \nOriginal text © 2015 SIL Mozambique.  \nOne day, all the wild animals got together to choose a king. And when they got together, they saw that it would be good to choose Lionto be the king of all the animals .  \nSure enough, at that very meeting they crowned Lion the king of the animals . As part of the ceremony for selecting King Lion, they had a great big party that lasted a week. All of the animals were in attendance until the end of the ceremony. They ate, they drank, they sang and they danced.  \nWhen the ceremony was over, they all dispersed, returning to their own homes . Then every animal customarily came to greet Lion because he was their king.  \nOne visitor who came to greet King Lion was Hyena . When Hyena arrived at Lion’s house, he found the king sick in bed. 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