{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas031n.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas031n.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas031n.htm","text":"The yam-hill story is very common in Jamaica. Parkes learned it in Kingston. Pamela Smith tells it, page 59 and JAFL 9:278. Sometimes a song accompanies the story. The number of Yam-hills varies.\nCompare Cronise and Ward, 167-171; Parsons, Andros Island, 109.\n{p. 254}\nThe story depends upon the idea that it is unlucky to reveal to others a marvel one has seen oneself, or to repeat certain taboo words. A lad in the Santa Cruz mountains explained the taboo by saying that Anansi had \"six\" legs. Another said that Anansi's mother's name was \"Six.\" So in Pamela Smith (JAFL 9:278), the Queen's name is \"Five.\" Compare Rivi\u00e8re, 177; Krug, JAFL 25:120; Schwab, JAFL 32:437, and the next two numbers in this collection.","title":"Note 31. The Yam-hills.","type":"page"}