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Ananse and his Grandmother

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About this folktale

Ananse and his Grandmother is published on Mythopia by Konlan Mikpekoah. The narrative connects to themes and tags including 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.

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Ananse killed his grandmother,

put her body in his wagon, and drove into town.

He told the barkeeper,

"Take some whiskey to my grandmother in the wagon.

Wake her if she's asleep."

The barkeeper couldn't wake her.

Then Ananse came out and shouted, "You killed her!"

The barkeeper gave Ananse a sack of gold coins to keep quiet.

"How did you get that gold?" Tiger asked Ananse.

"I killed my grandmother and drove her to town," said Ananse.

So Tiger killed his grandmother and drove to town, shouting,

"Who wants to buy my dead grandmother?"

They locked Tiger in jail!

THE END...