Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi Stories

"Jamaica Anansi Stories" is a book by Martha Warren Beckwith published in 1924. It is a collection of folklore, riddles and transcriptions of folk music, all involving the trickster Anansi, gathered from Jamaicans of African descent.

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