Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour by Susan Perrow

Author:Susan Perrow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hawthorn Press

Being Greedy Chokes Anansi

Once upon a time, Kwaku Anansi lived in a country that had a queen who was also a witch. This queen had a secret name – the word ‘five’, and she didn’t want anyone using it. It happened that she issued a decree that whoever used the word ‘five’ would fall down dead,

Now Anansi was a clever fellow and a hungry one too. Things had been especially bad because there was a famine in the land. Anansi decided to make a little house for himself by the side of the river, just near the point where everyone came to get water. He also made five yam hills next to his house. His plan was to call out to anyone who came along, ‘I beg you to tell me how many yam hills I have here. I can’t count very well.’ He hoped that different animals would come up and say, ‘One, two, three, four, five,’ and then they would fall down dead. Then Anansi would take them and store them in his barrel and eat them, and that way he would always have lots of food, in hungry times and in times of plenty.

After some time, along came Guinea Fowl. Anansi said, ‘I beg you, missus, tell me how many yam hills I have here.’ So Guinea Fowl went and sat on one of the yam hills and said, ‘One, two, three, four, and the one I’m sitting on!’ Anansi said, ‘Cho!’ (sucking his teeth), ‘you can’t count right.’ And Guinea Fowl moved to another hill and said, ‘One, two, three, four, and the one I’m sitting on!’ ‘Cho! You don’t count right at all’ said Anansi.

‘How do you count, then?’ Guinea Fowl asked, a little confused by Anansi’s strange behaviour. ‘Why this way: one, two, three, four, FIVE!’ And on saying this last word, Anansi fell down dead and Guinea Fowl ate him up.

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