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