The spider was able to be to clever that he was able to
defeat some bees, a boa constrictor, and a tiger. It was amazing, and he used
very clever ways to do it.
This is an interesting story about wisdom. A father got mad
at people and took all of the wisdom back from them. He intended to hide all of
the wisdom in a pot at the top of a tree. When he went to do so, he was trying
to climb up the tree but the pot got in the way. His son who had been watching
him suggested he put the pot on his back so he could climb. Angered by the fact
his child had more wisdom than he did, he dropped the pot and the wisdom spread
all throughout the land.
Two men named Anansi and Nothing went into the city to find
themselves wives. Nothing was very wealthy and so he had some of the finest
clothes. Anansi convinced him to trade clothes, and because of this, Anansi was
able to get many wives, where Nothing only received one wife and it was by
pity. However, when the went back to their houses with the women, Nothing’s
wife was shocked by how beautiful a palace he had, while the other wives
realized they barely even had food. The wives left Anansi and went to live with
Nothing and his wife. Anansi was mad so he devised a plan that killed Nothing.
Nothing’s wife was so upset she went and gave food to all the children in the
town and asked them to mourn her husband’s death. That was the day that
children start to “cry for Nothing.” I really liked this story.
This was a great story about how you get what you deserve. A
father, Anansi, and his family were hungry so he went in search of food for
them. He was given a pot that would magically appear with food. He decided to
keep it for himself though, and hide it from his family. One day while his
family noticed he was getting fatter as they starved, they found the pot. And
accidently destroyed it when they tried to give food to everyone in the town.
Anansi was so upset, he went back to the man who gave him the pot and told him
what had happened. The man then gave him a stick, and when Anansi tried to use
it to see what it would do for him, the stick beat the crap out of them. I
thought that was hilarious.
So Anansi is basically a terrible person. In this story he
find out the names of the princesses to get their hands in marriage as was
promised by the king. However, he had the help of a lizard to announce their
names. Since he was technically the ones that said their names though, the king
gave the wives to the lizard instead of Anansi. So Anansi set up the lizard to
have appeared to have killed the town’s cock, and then Anansi made him dumb to
wear he could only nod at people’s questions. The lizard was punished in the
end, and the wives were given to Anansi.
The son of Anansi found a place with a lot of animals, and
was getting rich off of selling them. Anansi wanted to find out where he was
getting them, and since the boy wouldn’t tell, he tricked and followed him.
Once he got there Anansi told him that it was his land, and that he intended to
kill every animal and make a ton of money quickly. So his son tricked him, and
made him think the gods were upset with him. He did this every day, and
eventually his son became very rich. When he told his father what he did,
Anansi was ashamed and said he would stop being foolish. But of course, he
didn’t. I liked this story, but not as much as the others.
This was a different story since it did not involve humans.
In this story, a spider has food that is taken from a leopard and tiger, then
the spider tricks them and gets it back, but then some white ants help the
tiger and leopard. So then the tiger and leopard intend on rewarding the white
ants, but since the spider heard this, the spider had its children dress up as
white ants and enjoy the feast. But then the real white ants come and the tiger
and leopard think it is the spiders so they kill all of the white ants except
the father. The father white ant is so upset that he determines he will never
do anything but destruction again.
This story didn’t keep my attention very well. A squirrel
had worked very hard to make a harvest, and the spider started to steal it,
saying it was his because the squirrel didn’t make a road. Of course, the
squirrel didn’t need a road since he traveled by the trees. So the courts sided
with the spider. So the spider and his family took the rest of the crop and
started to go to town to sell the food. But a storm came, so they dropped the
food and took shelter. When they returned a crow had the food and claimed that
it was his now. So no one really won in this story.
Anansi does another trick. In the end, an ant ends up
carrying his burden. I honestly just feel bad for anyone that comes into
contact with Anansi at this point because he is a selfish bastard.
Anansi was once again caught being greedy and he was so
ashamed of himself that he changed himself into a spider and went to hide in
the corner of the ceiling. From that day on spiders could always be seen there.
This is yet another story where Anansi is just a terrible person.
Anansi was once again greedy. His cousin had found a stone
that made flour and gave him enough food for his family. Anansi took the stone
and carried it, selling flour to make money. The stone though at one point
wouldn’t come down from Anansi’s head and it ground him then down. Serves him
right.
Ansansi and his son were captured by a dragon. The father,
son, and other prisoners escaped by climbing to heaven with the intelligence
and wisdom of the son. Because of this, the gods made Ansansi the moon, and his
son, Kweku Tsin, the sun. It was a nice story!
This was a weird story that I didn’t like. There was a man
that fought for some wine and won the wine and palm trees. When he went back to
the palace to give it to them, the gates were locked and a terrible storm hit.
No one opened the gates until the storm was over two years later and there they
found the man. They restored him to life, but he had a shell on his back and
couldn’t walk upright.
The last line of this
story sums up everything. “It is man who forces himself on things. Not things,
which force themselves on him.” A man was beheaded for saying he had a turtle
that would sing. People didn’t believe him, so he brought the turtle, and she
wouldn’t sing. He was then killed, so then she spoke about how she didn’t want
to be a show, but just sing to herself in the forest and that the man brought
his fate upon himself.
I didn’t quite understand the end of this story. But the
leopard and ram accidently built the same house without knowing each other and
decided to live together. One day the leopard thought the ram was about to try
and kill him, so the leopard and his son ran away into the woods. To this day
leopards still stay in the woods and rams, in the house.
The animals wanted a king, so they decided to have a race.
In the race, the chameleon went and disguised himself to hide on the hare who
was the fastest animal in the kingdom. When the hare went to win the race the
chameleon claimed his victory. Everyone in the kingdom was mad and the new King
Chameleon spent the rest of his days alone.
In this story, spider was deceitful and ended up losing in
the end. You would think by now that he would have learned his lesson.
This was a pretty good story. I found it interesting that
for once, the person who was the traitor was punished for doing so. In the end,
everyone was happy and the only person to serve consequences was the ungrateful
man that the hunter saved, who had tried to betray the hunter afterwards.
I thought this was a sweet story. A tiger and a man are
friends. One day when the tiger goes to visit the man, some other people try to
shoot him. In order to see if the man had anything to do with it, the tiger
acted dead. When the man saw him, he was deeply troubled and cried. So then the
tiger realized that he was a true friend and said that he would never hurt a
human unless he was provoked.
I honestly did not like, nor truly understand this story.
The only thing I got from it was that there was a chain reaction of passing
down the debts.
Some fairies help Mybrow make great crops. When his wife
goes to get some wood and a little bit of food from the crops, the fairies
decide to help and they basically ruined everything. Then Mybrow was mad at his
wife and the story ended. Kind of an odd story. It wasn’t bad but I didn’t
enjoy it as much.
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