Collected in Sierra Leone and set in evening scenes of storytelling, these tales follow the little deer Cunnie Rabbit, the greedy trickster Mr. Spider and the other beasts of the forest through contests of wit and appetite. They are told in the Creole English the people used with outsiders, with notes on local customs.
A valuable early collection of West African trickster tales, framed in missionary language of 1903. Download the free EPUB.