Nanzi's spit told by Emira Rodriguez-Tromp, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba. Subject: Nanzi's spit Description: The King wants the thief of his sheep to be caught. Tiger disguises himself as a sheep and almost manages to catch Nanzi. Content: The King is angry because someone is steeling his sheep. He puts up a reward for the one who catches the thief. Tiger suspects Nanzi. Disguised as a sheep in the King's herd he awaits the suspect at night. Indeed Nanzi appears and he escapes from Tiger. But Tiger catches Nanzi's daughter Popo. When Nanzi comes to collect Popo, he is almost caught himself by Tiger. On the run, Nanzi hides under Turtle who pretends that Nanzi stung him with poisonous venom, a fate that also awaits Tiger. 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 and of course with many ...