About this folktale
Ananse's Pork Plot: How the Spider Tricked His Wife with a Doctor's Disguise 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's wife raised a pig.
"Let's eat your pig!" Ananse said.
"No!" she said. "I'm going to sell it."
Then Ananse pretended to be sick.
"Fetch the doctor," he groaned.
Right after she left,
Ananse dressed up as the doctor
and ran to meet her on the road.
"I'm too busy for house-calls,"
he said, "but pork stew is good medicine."
Ananse's wife headed home,
and Ananse ran to get there first.
"Doctor says you must eat pork stew,"
Ananse's wife said.
"I'm too sick to eat..."
Ananse moaned.
"You must eat pork stew,"
she replied. "Doctor's orders!"
Ananse smiled.
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