BY TRADITION

Wolof folklore

1 record of Wolof folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

YumboesFae · Senegal · West AfricaYumboes, also called Bakhna Rakhna (“Good People”), are small pearly-white beings of Wolof and Lebou lore around Gorée. The principal written account is Thomas Keightley’s, taken from a woman who heard it from a Wolof maid: they feast under the Paps, steal couscous, and lament the families they attach themselves to.