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Coyote Steals Fire: Trickster Tales

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Trickster Tales “ Fool i'm taking you to pay for the Sky God's stories.” This folktale came from the story How Stories Came to Earth. Every time Anasi captured the animals he would call them fools and took them to the Sky God. How Stories Came to Earth, and Coyote Steals Fire are folktales that have several similarities and differences. In the two stories How stories Came to Earth and Coyote Steals Fire there are many similarities between them. One of the first similarities of the two stories is the main charachters achieved their goals. The Coyote in Coyote Steals Fire had to win a game of dice in order to get the fire, he may have cheted but he got what he needed. In How Stories Came to Earth the spider got all the stories from capturing

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