As expressed in the foreword of the book "When Chicken Fly" "Singing Ducks", the first story in the book, is inspired by a Lakota legend, "Iktomi and the Ducks", a spider-trickster, persuades some gullible ducks to enter his hut and then kill them for dinner.
In the following links, you can find more information related to this legend and the so-called "Lakota Legend"
February will bring us an amazing book written and illustrated by Selma Tufail.
The outline of the book in Amazon describes it with the following words:
CON YANCI: When Chickens Fly, and the other short stories in this series are allegories inspired by the Lakota legend, Iktomi and the Ducks. In this Native American legend, a spider called Iktomi persuades some gullible ducks to enter his hut and then kills them for dinner. The message is simple: be an independent thinker and don’t be fooled by confidence tricksters.
The message in CON YANCI: When Chickens Fly relates to global challenges faced by women and girls especially when it comes to education. The trickster-spider here is called Yanci. Every story in this series has a different theme that is relevant to issues in the 21st century.
The novel follows an imaginary Balkan war criminal, Dr. Vlad, as he interacts with women in an Irish village. The past actions of the main character closely resemble the war crimes of the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić. [Wikipedia]
He was arrested in Belgrade on 21 July 2008 and brought before Belgrade's War Crimes Court a few days later. Extradited to the Netherlands, he was placed in the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen, where he was charged with 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.[Wikipedia]
The following BBC podcast is quite curious because it narrates the search process before his capture.
