How We Got the Name "Spider Tales"
- Nyankupon the chief of the gods
- Spider that was conceited, wanted stories to be told about him
- Nyankupon requested, a jar of live bees, a boa constrictor, and a tiger
- He retrieved all the requested items and was rewarded for his cleverness
How Wisdom Became Property of the Human Race
- Father named Anasai from Fanti-land
- The country men anger Anasai and they were stripped of their wisdom
- Anasai had a son named Kweku Tsin, he followed his father out the house
- They went to the forest and climbed the highest most inaccessible tree
- The pot that he carried stopped him from being able to climb the tree
- Kweku Tsin asked his father what he was doing, and his father told him his son had more wisdom than he did
- Anasai threw the pot down allowing the wisdom to escape into the world
Why the Lizard Moves His Head Up and Down
- 3 daughters are kept hidden from the world but their family
- They kept their names hidden, the father said if anyone can figure out their names, they can marry his daughter
- Anasai hid in a tree with fruit, he poured honey over the fruit, dropped it from the tree, and waited for the daughters to find it.
- The daughters all yelled out the others name
- Anasai told the lizard the names, but the lizard stole the wives
- Anasai wanted to seek revenge on the lizard
- Anasai killed the king's rooster, put the feathers under the lizards bed, and poured boiling water down the lizards throat
- Lizards have a way of moving their head
Tit for Tat
- There was a great famine, meat was scarce. People were starving
- Kweku-Tsin was Anasai's eldest son, he discovered a place where there were animals plentiful
- He would take the meat and sell it to the poor people in town
- Anasai wanted to know his sons ways
- Anasai tricked his son into leaving the meat to him
- When the famine was over, Kweky had a great feast for the village
Why White Ants Always Harm Man's Property
- Bad famine, corn worth more than gold
- The spider found a dead antelope that he placed on his head
- He told everyone it was his dead grandfather
- Wolf and Leopard didn't believe the spider
- They took his antelope to eat it, then spider planned to get it back
- An angry vowed to never help anyone again
- Ants have been a pest to man since this day
The Grinding Stone That Ground Flour By Itself
- Great famine.
- One family was health, Anasai's cousin
- Being greedy, he went to find their secret
- He found out they were eating honey
- He would feed his family to keep them healthy
- Spider carried the stone to village selling flour unit his bag was full.
- The stone killed the spider which is why we always find spiders under small rocks
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