Martha Warren Beckwith's "Jamaica Anansi Stories" is a collection of folk tales from the Caribbean, focusing on the trickster figure Anansi. This work is significant for documenting and preserving the oral traditions of the West African diaspora in Jamaica.
Sources for Martha Warren Beckwith — Jamaica Anansi Stories
Martha Warren Beckwith — Jamaica Anansi Stories in Fables
Held in the Fables chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Aesop (V. S. Vernon Jones, trans.; illus. Arthur Rackham) — Aesop's Fables: A New Translation (1912)
- Edwin Arnold (trans.) — The Book of Good Counsels, from the Sanskrit of the Hitopadeśa (1861)
- Jean de La Fontaine (Walter Thornbury, trans.; illus. Gustave Doré) — The Fables of La Fontaine (1882)
- Ellen C. Babbitt — Jataka Tales: Animal Stories Retold from the Original Pali (1912)
- Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (Oliver Wardrop, trans.) — The Book of Wisdom and Lies (1894)
- Henry Morley (ed.) — The History of Reynard the Fox (1889)
- Ivan Krylov (W. R. S. Ralston, trans.) — Krilof and His Fables (1869)