Case file · Folklore / legend
Anansi stories recorded in Jamaica
In 1907 Walter Jekyll published 'Jamaican Song and Story', a collection of Anansi tales and songs he gathered from people in the Blue Mountains.
1907 CE · 18.04, -76.66 · status: official
The account
Anansi, the Akan spider trickster, came to the Caribbean with enslaved Africans and became a hero of cunning against the powerful. The stories are told at wakes and the 'nine night' gatherings for the dead.