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The Anansi Festival, a celebration of West African folklore's trickster hero; Anancy's Gift—video by UNED (English with Spanish subtitles) Jamaican Anancy Stories on Jamaicans.com; How Anansi Became A Spider by Michael Auld, on AnansisStories.com; Jamaica Anansi Stories Martha Warren Beckwith (1924), on Internet Sacred Texts Archive
Àjàpá - The turtle trickster of Yoruba folk tales [2] Anansi - The spider trickster of African origin. He considers himself cunning enough to trick and outwit anyone, but is also proud, lazy and impulsive, which often proves his undoing. Azeban - "the Raccoon," a trickster spirit in Abenaki mythology. [3]
A Story, a Story is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Gail E. Haley that retells the African tale of how the trickster Anansi obtained stories from the Sky God to give to the children of the earth. The book was produced after Gail E. Haley spent a year in the Caribbean researching the African roots of many Caribbean tales. [1]
Folklore of Africa. ... African fairy tales (2 C, 26 P) African mythology (29 C, 64 P) E. ... Anansi; Andriandravindravina; B. Buda (folklore) C.
Of the sixteen tales in the collection, three are by Dadié himself: "The Mirror of Dearth", "The Black Cloth", and "The Man Who Wanted to be King". Ten of the stories involve Anansi the spider, [3] the West-African trickster character; these are "generally in a light vein". [4]
West African mythology is the body of myths of the people of West Africa. It consists of tales of various deities, beings, legendary creatures , heroes and folktales from various ethnic groups. Some of these myths traveled across the Atlantic during the period of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to become part of Caribbean , African-American and ...
Anansi Does the Impossible!: An Ashanti Tale. Illustrated by Lisa Desimini. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997. Anansi and his wife outsmart the Sky God and win back the beloved folktales of their people. Anansi Finds a Fool: An Ashanti Tale. Pictures by Bryna Waldman. 1st ed. New York: Dial Books, 1992.
Osebo is the common name for the leopard character in Ashanti folk tales. According to one tale, Anansi captured him alongside Onini the python and the Mmoboro hornets, to give to the sky god Nyame in exchange for his stories. [1] Anansi captures Osebo by digging a pit in his favorite path.