Can you identify this “Voodoo Spelling” game?

Question

I played a PC spelling game when I was a kid, probably late 90s. I don't know the title but I refer to it as "Voodoo Spelling" because your character was some sort of native and you encountered wind spirits, fire spirits, etc. in the game. There were also tigers that would eat you and elephants that you could push around.

The game was 2D, top-down. Every level was a sort of maze that you would need to solve in order to collect letters in the right order to spell a particular word. You could take advantage of the wind spirits to blow you into the right area, and had to push the elephants out of the way, and that sort of thing.

At the end of every level you got on a raft and paddled down up the river to the next. I believe after every few levels there was a scene where you had to spell a bunch of words correctly in order to make headway against the water. I think the words were spoken by an old shaman or something, who would also show up and say things like "If it's worth writing, it's worth writing right" when you failed a level.

What's the name of this game? Searching "Voodoo Spelling" just turns up discussion of voodoo vs. vudu and that sort of thing, and I'm pretty sure the title was nothing like that anyways.

Answer

That sounds like Spelling Jungle to me.

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