Nanzi and the spotted cow told by Magno Abath, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project in Curacao.

Subject: Using your wit to get an impossible job done.

Description: Nanzi is not allowed to scratch himself when he cleans the King's garden. He thinks of a clever way to dodge this rule.

Content: Nanzi learns that the King gives a fat cow as a reward for cleaning up his garden. But the garden is full of stinging nettles and the one cleaning is not allowed to scratch himself. Nanzi takes the job. While working he cleverly pretends that he is drawing the spots of the cow on his body so that he can scratch himself. In this way he finishes the job and earns the cow. (see more info)

About Anansi Masters: The Anansi Masters project is developed by Vista Far Reaching Visuals (Mr. Jean Hellwig) and partners. It is designed as a public digital platform at http://www.anansimasters.net and opened in 2007. At the website one can find information about the story character of Nanzi (or Anansi or Kweku Ananse), with English and Dutch subtitled video recordings of storytelling in several countries in different languages, educational modules about storytelling for use at schools and academies, and digital issues of the Anansi Masters Journal published since the beginning of the project. All storytelling videos are also published on Youtube. The stories of the Anansi tradition originate in Africa and were exported to other parts of the world through slave trade and migration. In Anansi Masters, the similarities and differences between the stories and storytellers, who tell in their own language, can be found. Anansi Masters initiates different activities all over the world where stories from this oral tradition can be found. The founder has the ambition to film as many stories from this tradition as possible in as many countries as possible. Anansi Masters collaborates with writers, theatre makers, filmmakers, researchers, schools and of course with many many storytellers.

This dataset refers to: - the video recording of the storytelling with English subtitles - the video recording of the storytelling with Dutch subtitles - the video recording of the short interview with the storyteller with English subtitles - the video recording of the short interview with the storyteller with Dutch subtitles - a text datasheet with information about the stortyteller and story in English and Dutch