In the following folktale about Ananse the spider, the Akan trickster god gets some help from his wife in planning and carrying out a clever scheme. The story of how he captures Mmoatia the fairy is a source for the African American story of Br'er Rabbit and the tar baby.

Kwaku Ananse, the spider, once went to Myankonpon, the sky-god, in order to buy the sky-god's stories. The sky-god said, "What makes you think you can buy them?" The spider answered and said, "I know I shall be able." Thereupon the sky-god said, "Great and powerful towns like Kokofo, Bekwai, Asumengya, have come, but they were unable to purchase them, and yet you who are but a mere masterless man, you say you will be able?"

The spider said, "What is the price of the stories?" The sky-god said...