About this folktale
The Fish Coffin Trick: How Ananse the Spider's Revenge Led to Tiger's Downfall - West African Trickster Tale is published on Mythopia by Konlan Mikpekoah. The narrative connects to themes and tags including 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.
To hide his fish from Tiger,
Ananse put them in a coffin.
Tiger saw Ananse with the coffin.
"I'll help bury your friend!" he said.
They walked and walked.
Ananse got tired and confessed.
"There are fish in the coffin."
"I love fish!" said Tiger.
He ate the fish and left the fish-bones in the coffin.
"Now I want dumplings!" said Tiger.
They went to Ananse's house, and
Ananse gave the fish-bones to his wife.
"Put the fish-bones in the dumplings," he whispered.
Tiger choked on the dumplings.
"I'll help you!" said Ananse,
whacking Tiger with a shovel.
Tiger died!
