West Indian Folk-tales (Oxford Myths and Legends)
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About this book
As a child Philip Sherlock loved to listen to folk tales. Since then he has made a significant contribution to Caribbean folklore by recording many of them in print for the first time. Here are fables of the birds and animals of the West Indies: jaguar snake crested curassow wild pig parrot wise owl and of Anansi--the spider who can assume human form. These twenty-one stories are a wonderful mixture of early tales from the Arawak and the Carib people the original inhabitants of the Caribbean and from the Ashanti people of West Africa. Read together they help to provide a background to the history of the West Indies. The stories are retold here in a warm rich style--some tales gentle and philosophical some humorous and full of action.
