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EP 119: Ghana- The Grinding Stone, Why Sea Turtles Beat, How Beasts Came Into The World (W.H. Barker 1917)
1. THE GRINDING - STONE THAT GROUND FLOUR BY ITSELF -The first story features Anansi being too greedy once again, and paying the price for it.
2. WHY THE SEA -TURTLE WHEN CAUGHT BEATS ITS BREAST WITH ITS FORE-LEGS -In the second story, we learn how turtles saved mankind, and we repaid them with cruelty.
3. HOW BEASTS AND SERPENTS FIRST CAME INTO THE WORLD -In the third story, we learn how Anansi's poor manners unleashed all the creepy crawlies into the world.
Source: West African folk-tales by Barker, William Henry, 1882-; Sinclair, Cecilia
Narrator: Dustin Steichmann
Sound fx: bushes insects…
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