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Describe how Anansi captured the hornets for the Sky God. |
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Answer» Anansi was clever at cheating the hornets. He made them believe that it was raining and that they needed protection from the rain. Anansi first cut a gourd from a vine and made a small hole in it. He took a large calabash and filled it with water. He went to the tree where the hornets lived. He poured some of the water over himself so that he was dripping. He threw some water over the hornets making them all wet. Then he put the calabash on his head, as though to protect himself from a storm and called out to the hornets and asked them why they were staying in the rain. When the hornets said that they had nowhere else to go, he told them to go into the gourd through the small hole. When the last of them had gone in, Anansi plugged the hole with a ball of grass. He took the gourd full of hornets to Nyame, the Sky God. |
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