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A bet by Nanzi told by Astrid Yvonne Gietel, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba.Subject: Proving that you are not stupid through a ruse.Description: Nanzi challenges a man who says he is stupid. He makes a bet that the man can not even repeat three words that Nanzi gives him. The man takes up the challenge and loses.Content: An acquaintance of Nanzi tells that Nanzi is not only poor and annoying, but also stupid. At that moment, Nanzi joins in. He admits being poor, but not stupid. To prove it he makes a bet with the man. Nanzi will give him three words that the man must repeat. Each time he does not succeed he has to pay Nanzi a dime. Overconfident the man promises a guilder for each time he does not succeed. Thanks to a clever ruse the man goes wrong at the third word for several times. Later he accidentally does it right. Nanzi has proven that not he but the man is stupid.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...