About this folktale
Ananse's Fatal Greed: The Tale of How the Spider Was Tricked By His Own Son 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.
Hyena was supposed to throw Cunning-More-Than-Father in the sea,
but Cunning-More-Than-Father came back home,
and he brought a flock of sheep with him.
"But I threw him in the sea!" Hyena shouted.
"Yes, you did!" said Cunning-More-Than-Father.
"These are sea-sheep, and where the sea is deeper,
the sheep are even bigger."
"I want the big sheep!" shouted Ananse.
"Hyena, put me in a coffin and throw me in the deepest sea."
Ananse got in the coffin and
Hyena rented a boat to sail to the deepest sea.
He threw the coffin in the water.
That was the end of Ananse.
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