"The Elders have told me not to talk to you directly any longer," he said.

Well, an Elder at the home once told me true love never dies.

But then, as he explained, the elders had told him to knock on the door four times.

But now the stories were real, no longer the legends that elders tell their children.

In villages throughout Africa today, elders will tell you the stories that they heard from their parents.

The elders told her otherwise - that God does not punish anyone.

Elders told me they must now walk three days instead of one to find food and medicine.

Whatever his elders told him to do, he did.

The elders had told her nothing, except that she was to meet a great warrior and challenge his son in battle.

"You have won the running of the ritual as prescribed by law," the Elder told him.