Re: Invitation to a Small Trivia Game
It is late Monday night here, and there is a week to go.
A fair number of people have been looking, but no one seems to be guessing. Of the people not guessing, no one has decided to say why.
It might be easier to approach this game by figuring out the original source and author. Not all that many fantasy authors have used African traditions.
I'll drop a hint or two and see if anyone wants to take a shot at it.
The author is a 20th Century American writer. The source material for the item was written before 1950. The author is best known for an iconic fantasy character other than the one who received the ringer item.
Who it is not: Andre Norton.
Her book Jargoon Pard, part of the Witch World series, always struck me as having a distinctly African flavor. It is the story of a leopard shape-shifter, and is quite good. Many years ago, when I was putting together an African fantasy bibliography, this was one of the few books I found at the time.
If anyone has some suggestions for works that might go on an African fantasy bibliography, feel free to post them here.
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