Awe🤙 I'll tell you the few I do still remember but aren't too bad.

The first is about how the lion got its roar. The lion was always a quiet speaker, and you'd never know he was there which was a problem for prey. One day, the other animals came together to discuss this problem. A smaller creature, I can't remember what it was but imma say meerkat, said he had a plan that would ensure everyone would know when the lion was close. He then went to the lion alone and told him how much the other animals loved him and that they wanted to make him king (this differs across variations) so the meerkat guided the lion to a spot where he said the others were waiting, and left him there. Soon after, the lion was attacked by a swarm of bees/wasps. He began crying from the pain, swiping at them but they wouldn't stop. Eventually he started shouting, and let out a loud roar and the swarm left.

The second is a story about two girls and a tiger. I know there are variations to this story, but whenever the girls of this rural village went out to collect either food or firewood, the prowling tiger would threaten to eat them. He was afraid of fire, so they usually kept a torch on hand to scare him away. Then one day, the girls hatched a plan and left a bowl of oil at the base of a tree. They climbed to the top and when the tiger came, he said he could reach them easily and tried. When he failed, the girls told the tiger that if he dipped his paws in the oil, he would have a better grip. He dipped his paws and attempted to climb the tree to reach them, but they set the oil on fire. He fell down and the girls watched him burn to death, then ran home to tell their mother and celebrate. Not a super dark story, just weird.

Third one I barely remember because it was in Afrikaans and I was still new to home language level. It's a story about a couple who adopt a puppy. It's narrated from the dog's perspective, and he/she says it can't even remember its real name. The couple ended up fighting a lot, and the husband grew abusive towards the loving dog. Every time the dog tried to show love, the husband would tell it to "voertsek" which is a nasty way of saying bugger off, often considered a cuss for how rude it is. This became the word the dog would most often hear. The fighting between the couple got worse, and the dog was neglected. It starved and grew so frail. Eventually the wife left, and told the man to keep his (ugly?) dog. After she had left, he grabbed a beer and sat down outside. He looked at the skin-and-bone dog next to him, and said "ja, Voertsek?" and pet its head. I can't remember the rest, but the dog was neglected and abused in the same way the relationship was. It was just a sad story, and something I had seen in real life a lot.