Nanzi and the curse by Cinco told by Jarmine Marisol Medina Acosta, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba.Subject: Using someone's curse to enrich yourself.Description: Cinco pronounces a curse that makes anyone die who pronounces her name. Nanzi makes an agreement with Cinco that makes him rich but in the end Cinco turns against him.Content: Joswin Catbird tells the story of Nanzi and the mean woman Cinco, which means 'five'. As a child Cinco was very much bothered by her name. Every time the children would count ants to trample them, she would feel bad at the fifth. When she is older, she pronounces a curse that anyone who says the word 'cinco' will die. Nanzi makes an agreement to help her get rid of her enemies with the help of the curse in exchange for the possessions of these enemies. Not for long Nanzi is a rich person, but when Nanzi fails to trick Tiger, Cinco cancels the agreement. In the end Nanzi makes Cinco disappear through her own curse.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 as many stories from this tradition as possible in as many countries as possible. Anansi Masters collaborates with writers, theatre makers, filmmakers, researchers, schools and of course with many many storytellers.This dataset refers to:- the video recording of the storytelling with English subtitles- the video recording of the storytelling with Dutch subtitles- the video recording of the short interview with the storyteller with English subtitles- the video recording of the short interview with the storyteller with Dutch subtitles- a text datasheet with information about the stortyteller and story in English and Dutch
Date Submitted: 2012-12-12
