About this folktale
The Tale of Ananse and Tiger's Missing Fish: A West African Trickster Story is published on Mythopia by Konlan Mikpekoah. The narrative connects to themes and tags including African Tales, Ghanaian Tales, Ananse, African Stories. Even shorter folktales carry moral and cultural weight: readers often compare how the lesson applies today, and how the same motif appears across regions. If you know another version from your family or community, Mythopia welcomes a respectful retelling so audiences can compare tone, detail, and local wisdom alongside this text.
Ananse and Tiger went fishing.
When they caught a fish, Tiger grabbed it.
"This one's mine!" he shouted.
Tiger tied a string to the fish and then tied that string to his toe.
"When I wiggle my toe, I'll know the fish is there."
Then Tiger went to sleep,
wiggling his toe to make sure the fish was there.
Ananse carefully untied the fish and tied the string to a tree.
Tiger kept wiggling his toe, and he thought the fish was there.
When Tiger woke up, he pulled the string.
No fish! Then Tiger knew Ananse had tricked him.
