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Front Matter How Spider Tales were named How Wisdom came to Humans Anansi and Nothing Thunder and Anansi Why Lizard Moves his Head Tit for Tat Why White Ants Harm Property The Squirrel and the Spider Why Ants Carry Bundles Why Spiders are in Corners Anansi and the Blind Fisherman Adzanumee and her Mother The Grinding-stone Morning Sunrise Why Sea-turtle Beats its Breast How Beasts and Serpents Came Honourable Minu Why Moon and Stars Get Light Ohia and the Thieving Deer How the Tortoise got its Shell The Hunter and the Tortoise Kwofi and the Gods The Lion and the Wolf Maku Mawu and Maku Fia The Robber and the Old Man The Leopard and the Ram Why the Leopard Catches Prey Quarcoo Bah-Boni King Chameleon and Animals To Lose an Elephant The Ungrateful Man Why Tigers never Attack Men Omanhene Who Liked Riddles How Mushrooms First Grew Farmer Mybrow and the Fairies

West African Folk-Tales - William H. Barker



This is a delightful collection of stories and fables from West Africa, collected by a missionary. Many stories feature the Spider-man Anansi, a clever but devious character who usually comes to a bad end. Most of the stories or fables have a clever moral, or tell how some aspect of the natural world came to be.

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