{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas014n.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas014n.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas014n.htm","text":"The trick to save a mother in time of famine from a mutual agreement of sacrifice to hunger, has a great vogue in Jamaica. I got two versions, and Pamela Smith tells it as \"Parrot, Tiger and Anancy,\" 52-54.\nCompare: Dayrell, 86-90; Dennett, 85; Harris, Nights, 233-236; 237-241; Fortier, 109; Parsons, Andros Island, 116-117; JAFL 30:230-231.\nOnly in the Jamaica versions and in Parsons does the trick consist in teaching a hidden name. In P. Smith, after saving his mother by teaching her the new name, Anansi hides her in a tree and the story follows 17a. Dayrell, and Harris 237-241, tell the tree story. In Dennet, she is hidden in a cave, where she is discovered by treachery and killed. In Harris 233-236, Wolf's mother is taken first to market and sold, and Rabbit tricks Wolf out of horses, wagon and provisions by the familiar device of burying the tails; but the story is incomplete, as it does not explain how Anansi got out of the bargain. In Fortier, the two mothers are tied, one with a rope, the other with a cob-web, and one mother escapes. The tying trick precedes the tail-burying in Parson's Portuguese version, JAFL 30:230-231.\nIn Chatelain, 141-145, four brothers-in-law refuse food to their brother's wife because she does not know their names. A bird sings them to her as follows:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Listen, I will tell thee;\n (One is) Tumba Sekundu;\n (One Is) Tumba Sekundu Muna;\n (One is) Tumba Kaulu;\n (One is) Tumba Kaulu Muna.\nFor the hidden name theme which forms the basis of this story, see note to number 69.","title":"Note 14. New Names.","type":"page"}