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Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Ananasi and the Lion 🦁

Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Anasazi and the Lion is a folk tale. Ananasi is a spider that is always trying to trick the other animals. In this story Ananasi has some fish in his sack and doesn’t want to share. He tells Lion that what is in his sack is just treasure he is going into the mountains to bury and heads away. Lion doesn’t believe him and follows him to see what is really in the sack. Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark ❤️👂📖   Support Us 👉 If you are enjoying the podcast and would like to show your support, get Sleep Tight Premium: Sleep Tight Premium 🎈Shop for Sleep Tight Stories merch.! ✨Help us improve the show by supporting us on Patreon for as little as $2. https://www.patreon.com/sleeptightstories ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts, or share our podcast with your friends.   ❤️ We would love to hear from you, reach out to us via our website. While there you can find the words to most of our stories. ❤️ We're social! Let's connect on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter     About Sleep Tight Stories Sleep Tight Stories brings you two calming bedtime stories every week. Stories that promote wonder, creativity and fire young listeners’ imagination while helping them drift off to sleep with ease. They are just the perfect length, are safe for kids of all ages, and feature originals and classics that never grow old. Our stories add a little happily-ever-after to your bedtime routine.   Sleep Tight Premium Subscribe to Premium to get instant access to interruption-free episodes, extra exclusive stories, breathing and mindfulness episodes, and music and sound for sleep. Sleep Tight Premium feed includes: No interruptions or ads 🙌 4 + sleep stories per week 📖 Mindfulness and meditation episodes 🧘🏽 Extra long sleep sounds and music episodes 🔊 Access to our full catalog of over 500+ episodes 📚 Special shoutouts for the kids (including birthdays) ❤️ Get your 7-day free trial: https://sleeptightstories.org/support/ Thank you so much for listening!

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0:00.0

Hello, friends.

0:04.3

We would like to let you know that we have a bonus subscriber-only story that's available

0:10.9

now every Friday.

0:13.4

If you go to sleeptightpremium.com and subscribe.

0:20.0

Thank you.

0:30.0

Today's story is a folktale with the tricky anancy in it.

0:57.7

He has caught some fish and doesn't want to share with Lion.

1:03.7

Anancy tells Lion it is treasure in his sack and goes off and tries to eat by himself.

1:13.1

Will Lion believe him?

1:16.2

Lion has been tricked by anancy before.

1:27.4

Anancy and the Lion.

1:33.4

Once upon a time, anancy planned a scheme.

1:39.0

He went to town and bought ever-so-many containers of fat and ever-so-many bags and ever-so-many

1:48.4

balls of string and a great, big, frying pan.

1:55.4

Then he went to the bay and blew a shell and called to the headfish in the sea, green

2:03.9

eel to him.

2:07.5

Then he said to the fish, the king sends me to tell you that you must bring all the fish

2:15.2

on shore or he wants to give them new life.

2:23.2

So green eel said he would and went to call them.

2:29.2

Meanwhile anancy lit a fire and took out some of the fat and got his frying pan ready.

2:38.4

And as fast as the fish came out of the water, he caught them and put them into the

2:44.7

frying pan.

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