Suriname folk-lore

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69.

Alata bɛn habi ɛ̨ŋ kɔndre. Anąnsi ɑksi alata, taki ɛfi a no wani habi grąnmąn. Alata piki Anąnsi taki, ‘Ya.’ Dąn a tyari wąn grąnmąn kɔm. 'A grąnmąn na puspusi. 'A grąnmąn kiri ala den alata. Nowąn no libi. Anąnsi kiri 'a grąnmąn, nowąn no libi abra.

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69. Cat as King of Rats.¹

The rats had their kingdom. Anansi asked the rats, he said, if they did not want to have a granman. The rats answered Anansi, they said, ‘Yes.’ Then he brought a granman. The granman was the cat. The granman killed all the rats. No one was left. Anansi killed the granman, and no one [at all] was left.

1 Told by 7. Compare this version with that of Van Cappelle 315-317, No. 11.