Anansi Tales 1
Anansi tried to carry this in a pot and put it on a tree, to keep it out of reach.
What is wisdom?
Spider wraps this animal's corpse in a cocoon to preserve food in a time of famine.
What is an Antelope?
They have been ground up for stealing flour-grinding stones.
Why do we find tiny spiders under rocks?
Adzanumee was once this vegetable.
What is a yam?
The old man had been ungrateful to the man who saved him.
Why was the old man beheaded?
His wife paid children to cry for her dead husband.
Why do children cry over nothing.
What is corn?
Ants paid off a debt passed on through many individuals by creating this object.
What is a mushroom?
Kwofi was spared from the bag full of death being distributed for this reason.
Why did Kwofi never have any meat given to him?
He tried to hunt a wren to give to his family.
This object beat Anansi for trying to punish the kindness of his family.
What is a stick?
The profession of the corpse in the box carried by ants.
What is a jester?
Mybrow's wife was rude to the fairies, thus causing this incident.
The destruction of Mybrow's crops.
A fiddle was played.
Why did the dragon dance for the boy?
He won the race in the crowning dishonorable manner.
Why does the chameleon king have no subjects?
Three wives.
What did Anansi steal from the lizard?
Anansi got stuck to this while hiding crops from his family.
What is a scarecrow?
This singing animal was betrayed by the hunter, leading the hunter to be beheaded.
What is a tortoise?
Ohia's pots.
What was stolen by the thieving deer.
The leopard ate the kittens of the cat who taught him how to hunt.
Why can the leopard only catch prey on the left side?
Cutting open a sack of grain carried by his son, to follow.
How did Anansi find his son's hunting spot?
Drowning.
How did the blind fisherman die?
He burnt his tongue after he betrayed Anansi.
Why does the lizard bob his head?
Juju Depor.
What does Kwesi seek for in the fire as a hawk?
Moo.
What did the robber say to keep himself from paying the wise man?