Zebra volunteered a plan to stop the lions. Nobody warned him about the fine print.
https://mythopia.io/story/1602/why-the-zebra-has-stripes-but-no-horns-an-ila-folktale-from-zambia
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A hole that flings you a mile sounds like free entertainment. Then Ananse decides to test his own trap on someone else.
https://mythopia.io/story/217/ananse-and-the-fling-a-mile-hole-a-tale-of-greed-s-fatal-price
#Anansi #AfricanFolklore

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Leopards had to be taught how to hunt. The lesson came with a permanent catch.
https://mythopia.io/story/910/why-the-leopard-can-only-catch-prey-on-its-left-side
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Lion hunted without mercy until one small bird decided enough was enough.
https://mythopia.io/story/1603/tiny-titi-and-the-hungry-lion-a-ngoni-trickster-bird-tale
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A story survives because someone chose to pass it on. Which African folktale do you think deserves way more readers than it currently has?
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In ancient Rwanda, thunder wasn't just weather. It was kin. This is a tale of beads, marriage, and a girl born of the sky.
https://mythopia.io/story/1271/miseke-daughter-of-thunder-a-ruanda-folktale-of-beads-marriage-and-the-sky
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A war breaks out between the animals of the sky and the animals of the earth. Bat tries to fight for both sides. He pays for it forever.
https://mythopia.io/story/53/why-the-bat-flies-at-night
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Ananse convinces Hyena to leave his guts on the riverbank before bathing. It's one of the sharpest tricks in the whole Ananse cycle.
https://mythopia.io/story/208/ananse-tricks-hyena-by-the-river-a-clever-african-folktale
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Origin stories are everywhere: why the bat flies at night, why the leopard hunts the way it does, why the moon borrows its light. What's an origin story from your own culture we should read?
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Before a yam festival changed everything, Tortoise didn't carry a shell at all.
https://mythopia.io/story/902/how-the-tortoise-got-its-shell
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Born to end a couple's childlessness, Quarcoo Bah-boni grows into the animal kingdom's most notorious troublemaker.
https://mythopia.io/story/911/the-magical-mischief-maker-how-quarcoo-bah-boni-scattered-the-animal-kingdom
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If you grew up hearing a folktale from a grandmother, mother, or elder, not read from a book, what's the one detail you still remember exactly the way they told it?
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Ananse rigs a hole to fling greedy animals onto hidden stakes. Then his own greed sends him flying into the trap he built.
https://mythopia.io/story/217/ananse-and-the-fling-a-mile-hole-a-tale-of-greed-s-fatal-price
#Anansi #AfricanFolklore

Every culture has its trickster: Ananse, Jackal, Rabbit, Tortoise. Who's your favorite folklore trickster, and why do you think tricksters show up in nearly every oral tradition on Earth?
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