About this folktale
The Suspicious Spider: How Ananse Outsmarted Tiger's Death Plot 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 wanted to kill Ananse.
"Tell him I'm dead,"
Tiger said to Mrs. Tiger.
"I'll lie here and wait for him."
Mrs. Tiger shouted, "Poor Tiger!
Mr. Tiger is dead!" Ananse was suspicious.
"Did you hear Tiger was sick?" he asked Dog.
Dog said no.
He asked Monkey and Goat and all the animals.
Nobody had heard Tiger was sick.
Ananse went to Tiger's house.
Mrs. Tiger sat there weeping, and
Tiger was in the bed. "Did he make the final groan?"
Ananse asked Mrs. Tiger.
"The dead make a big final groan."
Tiger groaned. T
hen Ananse ran off, laughing.
