About this folktale
The Curious Queen-Bee: How Ananse's Trick Won Him the Stories - A West African Tale 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.
"All the stories will be yours if you bring me bees in a gourd,"
Hyena told Ananse.
Ananse took a gourd and went into the woods, muttering.
Queen-Bee asked, "What's wrong, Ananse?"
"I made a bet with Hyena about how many bees this gourd can hold,"
said Ananse. "But I don't know the answer."
"I don't know either!" said Queen-Bee.
"Let's find out. You can count us!"
Then the bees followed their queen,
buzz-buzz-buzzing into Ananse's gourd.
When the gourd was full,
Ananse plugged the hole and took the gourd to Hyena.
"Now all the stories are mine!" Ananse shouted.
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