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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Never Seen His Equal | |
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The Man Makes and the Woman Takes | |
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Bringing Men and Women Together | |
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The Fight over Life | |
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The Wind and the Water Fighting | |
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The Word the Devil Made Up | |
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The Knee-High Man Tries to Get Sizable | |
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Pig's Long Nose and Greedy Mouth | |
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Getting Common Sense | |
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Hankering for a Long Tail | |
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The Devil's Doing | |
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The John Crows Lose Their Hair | |
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Tadpole Loses His Tail | |
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The Owl Never Sleeps at Night | |
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Why Hens Are Afraid of Owls | |
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The Gifts of Dipper and Cowhide | |
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Buh Nansi Scares Buh Lion | |
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Testing the Good Lord | |
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Mr. Possum Loves Peace | |
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Get Back, Get Back | |
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No Justice on Earth | |
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Meeting the King of the World | |
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Mr. Bamancoo Gets Dropped | |
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The Tug-of-War between Elephant and Whale | |
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Tiger Becomes a Riding Horse | |
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The Telltale Pepper Bush | |
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Making the Stone Smoke | |
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The Latest Song | |
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The Signifying Monkey | |
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The Singing Bones | |
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A Boarhog for a Husband | |
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The Woman Who Was a Bird | |
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My Mother Killed Me, My Father Ate Me | |
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What Makes Brer Wasp Have a Short Patience | |
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Between the Fiddler and the Dancer | |
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Being Greedy Chokes Anansi | |
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The Doings and Undoings of the Dogoshes | |
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Spreading Fingers for Friendship | |
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Don't Shoot Me, Dyer, Don't Shoot Me | |
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Little Eight John | |
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The Poor Man and the Snake | |
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The Little Bird Grows | |
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Tricking All the Kings | |
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The Feast on the Mountain and the Feast under the Water | |
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Hide Anger until Tomorrow | |
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Buying Two Empty Hands | |
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Cutta Cord-La | |
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Brer Bear's Grapevine | |
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A Foolish Mother | |
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Old Granny Grinny Granny | |
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You Never Know What Trouble Is until It Finds You | |
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He Pays for the Provisions | |
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The Cunning Cockroach | |
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Little Boy-Bear Nurses the Alligator Children | |
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The Girl Made of Butter | |
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Poppa Stole the Deacon's Bull | |
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The Trouble with Helping Out | |
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The Rooster Goes Away in a Huff | |
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Why They Name the Stories for Anansi | |
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Brother Rabbit Takes a Walk | |
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The Lion in the Well | |
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A License to Steal | |
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The Race between Toad and Donkey | |
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Crawling into the Elephant's Belly | |
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A Strange Way to Sleep | |
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Goobers Gone, Rabbit Gone | |
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Assaulting All the Senses | |
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Brer Rabbit's Riddle | |
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The Horned Animals' Party | |
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Anansi Plays Dead | |
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Anansi Climbs the Wall | |
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Dancing to the River | |
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"Trouble" Coming Down the Road | |
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No Chicken Tonight | |
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Golden Breasts, Diamond Navel, Chain of Gold | |
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The Flying Contest | |
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Loggerhead | |
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Trying to Get the Goldstone | |
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Stackolee | |
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Escaping, Slowly | |
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Turning into Nouna - Nothing | |
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The Old Bull and the Young One | |
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Fasting for the Hand of the Queen's Daughter | |
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Weak in the Day and Strong at Night | |
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Jack Beats the Devil | |
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Three Killed Florrie, Florrie Killed Ten | |
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They Both Had Dead Horses | |
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You Talk Too Much, Anyhow | |
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Making the Eyes Run | |
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Making a Wagon from a Wheelbarrow | |
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The One-Legged Turkey | |
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John Outruns the Lord | |
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A Flying Fool | |
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Horses Stay Outside | |
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The Sinking of the Titanic | |
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Competition for Laziness | |
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John Outwits Mr. Berkeley | |
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Black Jack and White Jack | |
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Philanewyork | |
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The Barn Is Burning | |
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Big-Gut, Big-Head, Stringy-Leg | |
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A Chain of Won'ts | |
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Animal Talk | |
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A Comic Conversation | |
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A Smoking Story | |
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The Things That Talked | |
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Endings | |
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Appendix: Sources, Annotations, and Index of Tales | |
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Bibliography | |
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Permissions Acknowledgments | |