Once there was a great famine, and everyone was hungry. There was a certain man named Kweku Tsin who was the son Anansi, every day he would go into the forest to look for food for his family as all men should do. One of these days he was looking for food when he came across three palm nuts. Kweku picked them, but they all fell into a hole in the ground. Kweku dived into the hole after them, but when he went into the hole, he fell into a town under the crust of the Earth. It seemed empty, and he walked through the town, but saw nobody. Finally he saw an old and crippled woman sitting in a hut on the edge of the empty town. He asked her who she was, but she only told him that he wanted not to be hungry, that Kweku should obey her. She told him to go to a yam garden and listen to them, the ones that said "dig me up" he should not dig up, but the ones that said "do not dig me up" he should ring to her. Kweku did this, and then the woman told him to skin it and boil the skins. Kweku did this, and the skins became yams. Then the woman gave Kweku a small table to sit at and she and Kweku ate. The woman asked Kweku not to look at her as they ate, and Kweku respected it. Then the woman told Kweku to go to a collection and drums and take the one that sounded different from the others and bring it to her. Kweku obeyed, and the woman told him to take it home, and every time they needed food, they just needed to hit it once. Kweku took it home and fed all the people in the town, and they thanked him well. Anansi, Kweku Tsin's father, was jealous of his son' drum. So he took a nut and threw it in the hole, then he disobeyed the woman on everything that she told him. Then he took the drum home and banged on it, and all kinds of animals came rushing at him, and then they went into the forests where they are to this very day.
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