In one story, he convinces a village that a corpse he bought in exchange for twelve sheep is the sleeping son of a god, causing the villagers to present him with a hundred slaves out of fear when the corpse never wakes up.
In one story, he convinces a village that a corpse he bought in exchange for twelve sheep is the sleeping son of a god, causing the villagers to present him with a hundred slaves out of fear when the corpse never wakes up. He captures the hornets, the python Onini, and the leopard Osebo in order to buy all the tales in the world from Nyame, and makes an unsuccessful attempt to contain the entire world's wisdom in a calabash. He is also prevented from participating in a lavish underwater feast when he takes off his jacket, which he had filled with rocks. That feast is given in revenge for an earlier meal when he made Turtle wash his feet over and over again in order to eat all of his yams by himself. FTP, name this trickster from African mythology usually depicted as a spider.
In one story, he convinces a village that a corpse he bought in exchange for twelve sheep is the sleeping son of a god, causing the villagers to present him with a hundred slaves out of fear when the corpse never wakes up.
Kweku {Anansi}