Reading Notes: Jamaican Anansi Stories Part B

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The Fishes
This story once again shows Anansi as less of a mischievous trickster and more of a murderous monster. Like he does the same kind of "pranks" as other mythological tricksters, but most of his victims end up dead in horrible ways, and the story just kind of glosses over it. This story has a bit of a familial vengeance angle to it, and I think I can use this in my retelling. I think it would be pretty interesting to re-imagine this story as a western, with Anansi as an outlaw and Mule as the bounty hunter hired by the fish family to bring him to justice for their mother's murder.

Bibliography: Jamaica Anansi Stories by Martha Warren Beckwith (1924).

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