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Folktales remain a product of happenings in time immemorial. It provides the literary tales in which the people’s creative imaginative is best and most artistically expressed. It teaches morals and serves as a means of sustaining and preserving cultural ethos. It also serves as a means of entertainment in the pre technological era.This paper researches into a particular Yoruba folktale,Tortoise and Herbalist ‘ìjàpá and Babalawo’.‘Explication de text’ literary approachand Sigmund Freud psychoanalytical theoryareused to examine the artistic values of the tale. The paper examines and reveals the ways tales are narrated, the composition and rendition. Linguistic and para-linguistic features are employed by the narrator to retain theaudience’s attention during the course of narration.Clapping, dancing, interjection, and singing by the audience constitutes aesthetic in the chronicle. At the tail end of the tale, the moralsembedded, is revealed. The paper concludes by reappraising values offablesinsocieties. It analyzesthe consequences of drug abuseon the drug baron. It frowns and condemns drug abuse in a very interesting manner. If this method could be judiciously used to forestall the abuse of drugamong youthsin the contemporary generations, the crime rate will also be drastically reduced.