Anansi and the Neighbor's Daughter

Nancy had tricked the neighbor's daughter and gobbled her up.

The mother looked and looked for her daughter, but nobody knew where she had gone. 

Finally someone told her, "Anansi ate your daughter."

Then the mother went home, sharpened her sharpest knife and went to see Anansi.

"Where's my daughter?" she asked.

"I don't know!" said Anansi.

So the mother cut open Anansi's belly, and her daughter jumped out. Next, she filled Anansi's belly with old stones and with iron, filled it back up, and then rolled Anansi down the stairs: bang bang bang went Anansi all the way down.

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Inspired by: Folklore of the Antilles by Elsie Clews Parsons.
Notes: You can see Parsons' story and notes here. She heard the story from Anderson Cook. The story begins with the same "buying nothing" motif here: Buying Nothing for Anansi.