Anansi
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
How would you like to hear a story about... all of the stories? It’s time to learn about Anansi, the trickster figure of Western Africa and the African diaspora. We share a couple of classic Anansi tales, including how the world got stories, how Anansi (accidentally) shared wisdom with the world, and one featuring, of course, death.
Our recommendations this week are Cinnamon & Gunpowder, DisneyWar, & Black Culture and Black Consciousness.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, a production collective of indie audio professionals. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.0 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.9 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.0 | And this is episode 107, Anansi. |
| 0:11.9 | I am very excited. |
| 0:13.4 | This is going to be a great episode. |
| 0:14.7 | Lots of good stories. |
| 0:16.0 | I used a lot of primary sources. |
| 0:18.9 | My favorite. |
| 0:19.3 | My favorite. |
| 0:28.3 | If 8th grade AP world history taught us anything, it's that you got to love a primary source. |
| 0:29.5 | So true. |
| 0:37.2 | And to me, the like email equivalent of finding a great primary source is seeing a new patron join us on Patreon. So welcome this week to |
| 0:38.8 | Rachel as well as our upgrading patrons, Vellb and Ponders. And thank you, as always, to our |
| 0:43.5 | supporting producer-level patrons whose support sustains us. Philip, Julie, Christina, Eeyore, |
| 0:48.9 | Sammy, Marie, Josie, Amara, Neil, Jessica, Phil Fresh, and Deborah. And last but not least, as always, |
| 0:56.1 | are legend-level patrons, Jordan, Jess, Zoe, Sandra, Audra, Mercedes, Jack Marie, and Leanne. |
| 1:02.2 | You all are like the buckets of knowledge that spread throughout the world, making it a better |
| 1:08.2 | place. You'll see what I mean later, I promise. It's very |
| 1:11.5 | true. And I'm excited to mention those upgrading patrons because we have something very exciting |
| 1:16.6 | to announce about our Patreon. It's that we are going to be doing monthly bonus episodes, |
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