# Repeating, but not all that much; transforming whenever necessary  
What seems to have occurred through the contact of cultures in Brazil is a process of transculturation, in which elements of European and Catholic culture (perhaps more than in the case of the Amerindian cultures) were inserted into narratives of the Bantu tradition. This is true of the Afro-Brazilian folk tale João Jilô, in which the Brazilian oral tradition includes the prohibition of hunting on Good Friday, a holy day in the Catholic calendar on which the faithful do not eat meat (and in some cases, fast). Up until the mid-twentieth century, each and every pleasure was forbidden on Good Friday.  
The prohibition of pleasure appears to play no part in Bantu culture, as some scholars of Afro-Brazilian religions have already observed, and as is evidenced in the tale O Rei Kitamba Kia Xiba, collected by Héli Chatelain in Angola among Kimbundu speakers:  
O rei Kitamba Kia Xiba - chefe de Kasanji - construiu a sua aldeia e viveu feliz até a morte de sua mulher, a rainha Mubongo. Depois do enterro houve luto pesado. O rei Kitamba disse: Desde que minha mulher morreu só choro. De hoje para o futuro não quero que se faça mais nada na minha aldeia: nem que as crianças gritem, nem que as mulheres moam a farinha, nem que pessoa alguma fale. Os homens de mais categoria disseram: Senhor, a rainha está morta e por isso fazeis todas essas proibições. Nunca se viu um caso semelhante: não se comer, nem beber, nem falar (Chatelain, op. cit., pp. 428-29).  
In Brazil, the story takes place in the animal world, and it is the monkey who resolves the issue:  
Aí o macaco faló assim: