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Overview

Ngulu and Kiombo, translated as Hog and Boar, live together as kinsmen in the forest in tale XXXVI. Ngulu announces that he will go to the village and live with people. Kiombo warns him that people there are hostile to animals, but Ngulu prefers their food to the bitter plants of the bush. He enters the village, where people build him a sty and he stays.

After Ngulu breeds, the people seize and kill him because he has already left offspring. The narrative hears his cries as regret for rejecting Kiombo’s warning, followed by acknowledgment of his approaching death. Its ending explains the arrival of domestic pigs through attraction to human food. It does not show Kiombo entering the village or provide a later escape for Ngulu. Chatelain supplies an old scientific identification and color observations in note 563; the speaking pair’s story is retained independently of accepting that identification as current taxonomy.

Speaking forest kinsmenVillage-food attractionWild companion warnsSty and breedingRegret at slaughter
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Origins & earliest records

Named contributor Jelemía dia Sabatelu; Mbamba origin and Mbaka dialect. Chatelain pairs this tale with the neighboring Dog–Jackal domestication explanation, but its outcome is slaughter after breeding rather than Dog’s continued settlement.

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Records & interpretation

Complete tale XXXVI, The House-Hog and the Wild Boar, bilingual pp. 214–215; English p. 215. Contributor note and note 563 p. 301.

Selected bibliography

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    Folk-Tales of Angola

    Héli Chatelain, collector, editor and literal English translator; named contributor in origin · 1894

    Complete tale XXXVI, The House-Hog and the Wild Boar, bilingual pp. 214–215; English p. 215. Contributor note and note 563 p. 301.

Family & connections

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References

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  1. Collected Ki-mbundu text with facing English translation and contributor notesChatelain 1894 — Ngulu and KiomboResearch access: 2026-10-05

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