Picking beans told by Diana Antonetta, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba. Subject: Devising a plan to benefit from a rule that is not applicable to you. Description: Devising a plan to benefit from a rule that is not applicable to you. Content: The King decides to help mothers with small children. They are allowed to pick beans from he garden of the King. When Nanzi hears this he devises a plan to benefit of the situation. He disguises himself as a baby and has Shi Maria picks the beans. Nanzi lies between the other babies. When they start to cry he joins them. But the King hears that his voice is very different of that of the babies and he manages to unmask Nanzi. The King thinks it is funny and allows Nanzi and Shi Maria to take the beans they picked. About Anansi Masters: The Anansi Masters project is developed by Vista Far Reaching Visuals (Mr. Jean Hellwig) and partners. It is designed as a public digital platform at http://www.anansimasters.net and opened in 2007. At the website one can find information about the story character of Nanzi (or Anansi or Kweku Ananse), with English and Dutch subtitled video recordings of storytelling in several countries in different languages, educational modules about storytelling for use at schools and academies, and digital issues of the Anansi Masters Journal published since the beginning of the project. All storytelling videos are also published on Youtube. The stories of the Anansi tradition originate in Africa and were exported to other parts of the world through slave trade and migration. In Anansi Masters, the similarities and differences between the stories and storytellers, who tell in their own language, can be found. Anansi Masters initiates different activities all over the world where stories from this oral tradition can be found. The founder has the ambition to film as many stories from this tradition as possible in as many countries as possible. Anansi Masters collaborates with writers, theatre makers, filmmakers, researchers, schools ...