Sônia Queiroz's chapter analyses, from a comparative perspective, oral narratives recorded in books, both in Angola and in Brazil, taking into account the hypertextualities and points of contact between those narratives. Whereas elsewhere there is a tendency to treat oral tales as children's literature, Queiroz shows that in Brazil, oral tales are the result of 'processes of transculturation and of dialogue between cultures and languages: Bantu and Latin peoples, African languages and Portuguese, oral and written'. The analysis of oral tales collected by Europeans in Angola and those compiled in books in Brazil shows the strong influence of Bantu languages in Brazilian oral literature. Unfortunately, Brazilian oral compositions tend to be marketed as children's literature.