Comparison Of Trickster Tales

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Trickster Tales
¨what remains, still remains¨ The Sky-God said this quote in ¨How Stories Came To Earth¨ when Anansi Captured 2 out of 4 creatures. Anansi the spider was trying to obtain stories from the Sky-God. To get these, Anansi had to capture 4 Creatures. A python, a leopard, hornets, and a fairy. When the stories were given, Anansi would read all of the stories and tell them around the world. Several similarities and differences are present in the trickster tales, ¨How Stories Came To Earth¨ and ¨Coyote Steals Fire¨.
There are many similarities between the stories ¨How Stories Came To Earth¨ and ¨Coyote Steals Fire¨. The first similarity is, both trickster tales include animals as the main character. For example, In¨How Stories Came
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