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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][[vi]] | 18 |
| 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][[vii]] | 47 |
| a. | [Bunya] | 47 |
| b. | [Christen Christen] | 47 |
| 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][[viii]] | 65 |
| a. | [Horse and Turtle] | 65 |
| b. | [Pigeon and Parrot] | 66 |
| 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][[ix]] | 103 |
| a. | [The Rescue (1)] | 103 |
| | [The Rescue (2)] | 104 |
| b. | [Snake Swallows the Bride] | 104 |
| 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)] | 147 |
| 112. | [Difficult Tasks (fragment)] | 147 |
| 113. | [The Grateful Beasts] | 148 |
| 114. | [Jack and the Bean-stalk][[x]] | 149 |
| 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 |