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Shi Maria's sheep told by Sharline Geerman-Rodriguez, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba.Subject: Perform a ruse to get what you want.Description: Nanzi wants to eat Shi Maria's favorite sheep but she does not allow him. By pretending that he is ill he makes her go to see the wonder doctor. But the wonder doctor is Nanzi himself and he manages to let Shi Maria prepare the sheep for the sake of her husband.Content: Nanzi would like to have stew made from Shi Maria's favorite sheep. She does not want it to be slaughtered so one evening Nanzi makes a plan. He pretends to be sick to death the next morning. Shi Maria is desperate because none of her medications seem to work. Nanzi advises her to visit the wonder doctor in the forest. The moment she leaves, Nanzi rushes out of the house and awaits her, disguised as the wonder doctor. He convinces her that he is suffering from the 'illness of desire'. When she will give him whatever he wants, he will be cured. Back home he asks for stew and Shi Maria slaughters her favorite sheep for him.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...