How We Got the Name "Spider Tales": A spider was very jealous that all of the stories told were about Nyankupon, the chief of gods. So the spider went to the god and asked if future stories could be told about spiders. Nyankupon agreed but only if the spider could bring back a jar full of live bees, a boa constrictor, and a tiger. So off the spider went and he tricked a hive of bees to go into the jar, tricked a boa constrictor and tied it to a long stick, and tricked a tiger and sewed its eyes shut and let them all to Nyankupon. He was so impressed of how the spider fulfilled the conditions that he allowed all the stories to be Anansi tales.
Anansi and Nothing: Anansi lived next to a very wealthy man named Nothing. One day, they agreed to go into town and find wives. On the way, Anansi convinced Nothing to trade clothes on the way to town. Anansi kept putting off switching clothes until they got to town. When they arrived at their destination, all the women saw the velvet coat on Anansi and flocked to him. Poor Nothing couldn't get any wives. One woman felt bad and gave him her daughter. They all walked back to the houses together and saw that Nothing was actually the wealthy one. Anansi's wives had to survive off of unripe bananas. Nothing's wife felt bad for her friends and invited them over for a feast. They were so happy that they decided to stay. Anansi was so mad that he tried to kill Nothing multiple times. He succeeded one night and Nothing's wife was so upset that she made food and took it around the district and told children "to cry for Nothing."
Thunder and Anansi: Anansi and his family were very poor and had nothing to eat. Anansi was out searching for food when he saw a tree that he could possibly get nuts from. He had to steer an old boat out to it though. He climbed the tree and dropped the nuts one by one hoping they would land in the boat, sadly they all fell into the water. He threw himself into the water and instead of drowning he came upon Thunder's cottage. He told him of his troubles and Thunder gave him a pot and said that he would always have enough food for him and his family. But he was very greedy and decided to hide it from his family. His family found out and his wife had the pot cook for everybody in the town, but under the stress, the pot melted. Announce couldn't find the pot and immediately thought of his family as the culprits. He went back to Thunder and told him of his problems and was given a stick. When Anansi asked the stick to do what it does for Thunder, the stick began beating him. Announce jumped out of the boat and had to swim all the way back to shore.
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| (Snake Beach, Source: UnTextbook) |
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