Reading Notes: West African Stories A

Although I love these stories I don't find any of them immediately inspiring me for a retelling. The best I have, I think is the pot of wisdom myth. Anansi is offended by men and takes to gathering all knowledge he'd taught back into his pot. He then tries to hide it in a big tree so no one can have it but can't get it up there because his pot is in the way of his climbing. His son then tells him to swing to pot around to his back to climb. He realizes his son still has wisdom he doesn't, smashes the pot, and releases wisdom to the world. It's very short and simple which means I have a lot of room to work with. At the moment I have the idea that someone is collecting something so that no one else can have them. Maybe pokemon cards or the like. When he finds someone else has a very rare object that he covets, he gets angry and scatters all his collectibles away into the sea.

It's a very vague story at the moment. After reading part B, I'll either end up switching to a different story or going ahead and fleshing this one out more.

(image of a pouting child)

West African Folktales by multiple authors