About this folktale
The Bone Hole Ghost: How Ananse's Family Outsmarted Tiger for His Stew - West African Spider Tale is published on Mythopia by Konlan Mikpekoah. The narrative connects to themes and tags including African Tales, Ghanaian Tales, Ananse. 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.
Tiger had a big pot of stew-meat,
and he had a bone-hole where he threw the bones.
Ananse and his family got in the pot to eat,
but Tiger came, so they hid in the hole.
Tiger ate and threw a bone. It hit Ananse's child.
"Hush!" said Ananse.
The second bone hit Ananse's other child.
"Hush!" The third bone hit Ananse's wife.
"Hush!" Finally Tiger threw a bone that hit Ananse.
"Everybody yell!" said Ananse. So they yelled,
and it scared Tiger. Tiger yelled,
"Ghosts in the bone-hole!" and ran off.
Then Ananse and his family ate the meat.
