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Ananse's Riding-Horse Humiliation: How Tacoomah Tricked the Spider in Love

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About this folktale

Ananse's Riding-Horse Humiliation: How Tacoomah Tricked the Spider in Love is published on Mythopia by Konlan Mikpekoah. The narrative connects to themes and tags including 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.

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Ananse and Tacoomah were courting the same woman.

Tacoomah told her,

"Ananse was my father's riding-horse!"

Ananse heard about this and got angry.

"We'll go tell her the truth!" Ananse said.

"I can't go now," said Tacoomah. "I'm sick."

"We must go now!" said Ananse.

"Well," said Tacoomah, "maybe you can carry me."

Ananse let Tacoomah get on his back.

"I'm so weak..." said Tacoomah.

"I need my walking-stick to steady myself."

When they got near the woman's house,

Tacoomah started beating Ananse with the walking-stick.

Ananse ran.

"Look!" Tacoomah shouted.

"Ananse was my father's riding-horse, and now he's mine!"

THE END...