Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society XVII

''Jamaica Anansi Stories'' is a book by Martha Warren Beckwith published in 1924. It is a collection of folklore, riddles and

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s of folk music, all involving the trickster Anansi, gathered from Jamaicans of African descent.

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