About this folktale
The Clever Revenge: How Ananse the Spider Tricked the Fish-Stealing Tiger - Traditional West African 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 was carrying a basket of fish when he met Tiger.
Tiger grabbed the basket and ate the fish.
Ananse was angry but said nothing.
They kept walking. Ananse saw a fruit-tree.
"Nice fruit there!" said Ananse.
"Get me some!" said Tiger.
Ananse climbed up and looked down.
"I see lice in your fur!" Tiger said,
"Groom me!" Ananse climbed down and he pulled
Tiger's fur and whiskers, and with Tiger's fur and whiskers
he tied Tiger to the tree!
Then Ananse ran off and left Tiger tied to the tree.
Tiger roared, and a hunter came and killed him.
