Anansi Stories
tale:anansi_storiesAnansi longs to own all the world's stories, hoarded by the Sky-God Nyame, who names an impossible price: the python, the leopard, the hornets, and the unseen forest dwarf. By wit alone Anansi captures each — measuring the python on a pole, trapping the leopard in a pit, luring the hornets into a gourd with a feigned rain — and Nyame grants him the stories, which ever after are called Anansi stories. Moral: cunning can buy what gold and strength cannot. — Anansi folktale