{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas_01.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas_01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas_01.htm","text":"| | PAGE | \n| Contents | v | \n| Preface | xi | \n| Animal Stories. | | \n| 1. Tying Tiger | 1 | \n| a. The Fish-basket | 1 | \n| b. The Storm | 2 | \n| 2. Tiger as Substitute | 3 | \n| a. The King's Two Daughters | 3 | \n| b. The Gub-gub Peas | 4 | \n| 3. Tiger as Riding-horse | 5 | \n| 4. Tiger's Sheep-skin Suit | 6 | \n| 5. Tiger Catching the Sheep-thief | 8 | \n| a. The Escape | 8 | \n| b. The Substitute | 8 | \n| c. In the House-top | 9 | \n| 6. Tiger's Breakfast | 11 | \n| 7. Eggs and Scorpions | 11 | \n| 8. Tiger's Bone-hole | 12 | \n| 9. The Christening | 12 | \n| 10. Eating Tiger's Guts | 13 | \n| a. The Tell-tale | 13 | \n| b. The Monkeys' Song | 13 | \n| 11. Throwing Away Knives | 14 | \n| a. Tiger and Anansi | 14 | \n| b. Sheep and Anansi | 14 | \n| 12. Grace before Meat | 14 | \n| a. Monkey and Anansi | 14 | \n| b. Goat and Anansi | 15 | \n| 13. Day-time Trouble | 15 | \n| a. Rabbit and Anansi | 15 | \n| b. Rat and Anansi | 16 | \n| c. Goat and Anansi | 16 | \n| 14. New Names | 17 | \n| 15. Long-shirt | 18 | \n{p. vi}\n| | PAGE | \n| 16. Shut up in the Pot | 19 | \n| 17. House in the Air | 20 | \n| a. Tracking Anansi | 20 | \n| b. Rabbit and Children going up to Heaven | 20 | \n| c. Duppy's House in the Air | 21 | \n| d. Carencro's House with a Key | 21 | \n| 18. Goat on the Hill-side | 22 | \n| 19. Dog and Dog-head | 22 | \n| 20. Tacoomah's Corn-piece | 23 | \n| 21. Anansi and the Tar-baby | 23 | \n| a. The Escape from Tiger | 23 | \n| b. The Substitute | 24 | \n| c. The Grave | 25 | \n| 22. Inside the Cow | 26 | \n| 23. Cunnie-more-than-father | 27 | \n| 24. The Duckano Tree | 31 | \n| 25. Food and Cudgel | 31 | \n| a. The Handsome Packey | 31 | \n| b. The Knife and Fork | 32 | \n| 26. The Riddle | 33 | \n| 27. Anansi and Brother Dead | 34 | \n| a. Brother Dead's Wife | 34 | \n| b. Goat and Plantain | 35 | \n| 28. Brother Dead and the Brindle Puppy | 35 | \n| 29. The Cowitch and Mr. Foolman | 36 | \n| 30. Dry-head and Anansi | 37 | \n| a. Go-long-go | 37 | \n| b. Dry-head | 38 | \n| c. Brother Dead | 39 | \n| 31. The Yam-hills | 39 | \n| 32. The Law Against Back-biting | 40 | \n| a. Duck's Dream | 40 | \n| b. Guinea-chick | 41 | \n| c. Dry-head at the Barber's | 42 | \n| 33. Fling-a-mile | 42 | \n| 34. But-but and Anansi | 44 | \n| 35. Tumble-bug and Anansi | 45 | \n| 36. Horse and Anansi | 46 | \n| 37. Anansi in Monkey Country | 47 | \n| a. Bunya | 47 | \n| b. Christen Christen | 47 | \n{p. vii}\n| | PAGE | \n| 38. Curing the Sick | 48 | \n| a. The Fishes | 48 | \n| b. The Six Children | 48 | \n| 39. Anansi, White-belly and Fish | 50 | \n| 40. Goat's Escape | 51 | \n| a. The Rain | 51 | \n| b. The Dance (1) | 52 | \n| The Dance (2) | 52 | \n| 41. Turtle's Escape | 53 | \n| 42. Fire and Anansi | 53 | \n| 43. Quit-quit and Anansi | 53 | \n| a. Tailors and Fiddlers | 53 | \n| b. Fiddlers | 54 | \n| 44. Spider Marries Monkey's Daughter | 54 | \n| 45. The Chain of Victims | 55 | \n| 46. Why Tumble-bug Rolls in the Dung | 56 | \n| 47. Why John-crow Has a Bald Head | 56 | \n| a. The Baptism | 56 | \n| b. The Dance | 57 | \n| 48. Why Dog is always Looking | 57 | \n| 49. Why Rocks at the River are Covered with Moss | 57 | \n| 50. Why Ground-dove Complains | 58 | \n| 51 . Why Hog is always Grunting | 58 | \n| 52. Why Toad Croaks | 58 | \n| 53. Why Woodpecker Bores Wood | 59 | \n| 54. Why Crab is Afraid after Dark | 59 | \n| 55. Why Mice are no Bigger | 59 | \n| 56. Rat's Wedding | 60 | \n| 57. Cockroach Stories | 61 | \n| a. Cock's Breakfast | 61 | \n| b. Feigning Sick (1) | 61 | \n| Feigning Sick (2) | 62 | \n| c. The Drum | 62 | \n| 58. Hunter, Guinea-hen and Fish | 63 | \n| 59. Rabbit Stories | 64 | \n| a. The Tar Baby | 64 | \n| b. Saying Grace | 64 | \n| c. Pretending Dead | 65 | \n| 60. The Animal Race | 65 | \n| a. Horse and Turtle | 65 | \n| b. Pigeon and Parrot | 66 | \n{p. viii}\n| | PAGE | \n| 61. The Fasting Trial (fragment) | 67 | \n| 62. Man is Stronger | 67 | \n| Old Stories, chiefly of Sorcery. | | \n| 63. The Pea that Made a Fortune | 69 | \n| 64. Settling the Father's Debt | 69 | \n| 65. Mr. Lenaman's Corn-field | 70 | \n| 66. Simon Tootoos | 71 | \n| 67. The Tree-wife | 74 | \n| 68. Sammy the Comferee | 75 | \n| 69. Grandy Do-an'Do | 77 | \n| 70. Jack and Harry | 79 | \n| 71. Pea-fowl as Messenger | 80 | \n| a. John Studee | 80 | \n| b. Contavio | 82 | \n| 72. The Barking Puppy | 82 | \n| 73. The Singing Bird | 83 | \n| a. Fine Waiting Boy | 83 | \n| b. The Golden Cage | 84 | \n| 74. Two Sisters | 85 | \n| 75. Assonah | 86 | \n| 76. The Greedy Child | 87 | \n| a. Crossing the River | 87 | \n| b. The Plantain | 87 | \n| 77. Alimoty and Aliminty | 88 | \n| 78. The Fish Lover | 89 | \n| a. Timbo Limbo | 89 | \n| b. Fish Fish Fish | 91 | \n| c. Dear Old Juna | 91 | \n| 79. Juggin Straw Blue | 92 | \n| 80. The Witch and the Grain of Peas | 93 | \n| 81. Bosen Corner | 94 | \n| 82. The Three Dogs | 96 | \n| a. Boy and Witch Woman | 96 | \n| b. Lucy and Janet | 99 | \n| 83. Andrew and His Sisters | 99 | \n| 84. The Hunter | 101 | \n| a. The Bull turned Courter | 101 | \n| b. The Cow turned Woman | 102 | \n| 85. Man-Snake as Bridegroom | 103 | \n| a. The Rescue (1) | 103 | \n| The Rescue (2) | 104 | \n| b. Snake Swallows the Bride | 104 | \n{p. ix}\n| | PAGE | \n| 86. The Girls who Married the Devil | 105 | \n| a. The Devil-husband | 105 | \n| b. The Snake-husband | 106 | \n| 87. Bull as Bridegroom | 108 | \n| a. Nancy | 108 | \n| b. The Play-song | 109 | \n| c. Gracie and Miles | 110 | \n| 88. The Two Bulls | 111 | \n| 89. Ballinder Bull | 113 | \n| 90. Bird Arinto | 115 | \n| 91. Tiger Softens his Voice | 116 | \n| 92. Hidden Names | 118 | \n| a. Anansi and Mosquito | 118 | \n| b. Anansi plays Baby (1) | 118 | \n| Anansi plays Baby (2) | 119 | \n| Anansi plays Baby (3) | 119 | \n| 93. Anansi and Mr. Able | 120 | \n| 94. The King's Three Daughters | 121 | \n| 95. The Dumb Child | 121 | \n| 96. The Dumb Wife | 123 | \n| 97. Leap, Timber, Leap | 124 | \n| a. Old Conch | 124 | \n| b. Grass-quit (fragment) | 126 | \n| 98. The Boy fools Anansi | 126 | \n| 99. The Water-crayfish | 127 | \n| Modern European Stories. | | \n| 100. Ali Baba and Kissem | 129 | \n| 101. Bull-of-all-the-land | 130 | \n| 102. The Boiling Pot | 131 | \n| 103. The Twelve One-eyed Men | 133 | \n| 104. Bird and Hunter | 134 | \n| 105. Jack and the Devil Errant | 135 | \n| 106. The Magic Hat and the Staff of Life | 139 | \n| 107. Uncle Green and Jack | 141 | \n| 108. Big Begum and Little Begum | 143 | \n| 109. The Fool and the Wise Brother | 145 | \n| 110. The Children and the Witch | 146 | \n| 111. The Boy and the Mermaid (fragment) | 117 | \n| 112. Difficult Tasks (fragment) | 147 | \n| 113. The Grateful Beasts | 148 | \n| 114. Jack and the Bean-stalk | 149 | \n{p. x}\n| | PAGE | \n| 115. Jack and the Devil | 150 | \n| 116. Jack's Riddle | 150 | \n| 117. Jack as Fortune-teller | 151 | \n| 118. Robin as Fortune-teller | 151 | \n| 119. Jack and the Grateful Dead | 152 | \n| 120. The Boy and his Master | 153 | \n| 121. The Language of Beasts | 154 | \n| 122. The Three Pieces of Advice | 155 | \n| 123. Three Brothers and the Life-tree | 156 | \n| 124. The Skilful Brothers | 158 | \n| 125. The Three Sillies | 158 | \n| 126. A Misunderstanding | 159 | \n| 127. Big-head, Big-belly and Little-foot (a and b) | 160 | \n| 128. The Goat in the Lion's Den | 160 | \n| 129. The Donkey, The Cat and the Lion's Head | 161 | \n| 130. Clever Molly May | 162 | \n| 131. Dancing to Anansi's Fiddle | 162 | \n| 132. Anansi Claims the Dinner | 163 | \n| 133. Anansi Seeks his Fortune | 163 | \n| 134. The Pannier-jar | 163 | \n| 135. Anansi kills his Grandmother | 164 | \n| 136. White-belly and Anansi | 164 | \n| 137. Monkey hunts Anansi | 165 | \n| 138. Anansi and the Pig Coming from Market | 166 | \n| Song and Dance | | \n| 139. The Fifer | 169 | \n| 140. In Come Murray | 170 | \n| 141. Tacoomah Makes a Dance | 170 | \n| 142. Anansi Makes a Dance | 171 | \n| 143. Red Yam | 173 | \n| 144. Guzzah Man | 175 | \n| 145. Fowl and Pretty Poll | 176 | \n| 146. The Cumbolo | 176 | \n| 147. John-crow and Fowl at Court | 177 | \n| 148. Wooden Ping-ping and Cock | 177 | \n| 149. Animal Talk | 178 | \n| Witticisms | 179 | \n| Riddles | 183 | \n| Index to Riddles | 219 | \n| Abbreviations of Titles | 223 | \n| Notes to the Tales | 233 | \n| Index to Informants | 291 | \n{p. xi}","title":"Contents.","type":"page"}