<P> In The Bahamas, the Tar - Baby story was published by The Journal of American Folklore in the year 1891 in Some Tales from Bahama Folk - Lore by Charles Lincoln Edwards . Edwards had collected the stories from Green Turtle Cay, Abaco in the summer of 1888 . </P> <P> In the tale, B' Rabby refused to dig for water, and didn't help grow the field . He tricks B' Lizard and B' Bouki while they were standing watch by the water and the field . The other animals got tired of his tricks, got together and created a Tar Baby . B' Rabby was caught by Tar Baby and the other animals who wanted to throw him into the sea but he talked them into throwing him into a bush . They threw B' Rabby into the bush and he got away . </P> <P> In a variant recorded in Jamaica, Anansi himself was once similarly trapped with a tar - baby made by the eldest son of Mrs. Anansi, after Anansi pretended to be dead in order to steal her peas . In a Spanish language version told in the mountainous parts of Colombia, an unnamed rabbit is trapped by the Muñeco de Brea (tar doll). A Buddhist myth tells of Prince Five - weapons (the Future Buddha) who encounters the ogre Sticky - Hair in a forest . </P> <P> The tar - baby theme is present in the folklore of various tribes of Meso - America and of South America: it is found in such stories as the Nahuatl (of Mexico) "Lazy Boy and Little Rabbit" (González Casanova 1946, pp. 55--67), Pipil (of El Salvador) "Rabbit and Little Fox" (Schultes 1977, pp. 113--116), and Palenquero (of Colombia) "Rabbit, Toad, and Tiger" (Patiño Rosselli 1983, pp. 224--229). In Mexico, the tar baby story is also found among Mixtec, Zapotec, and Popoluca . In North America, the tale appears in White Mountain Apache lore as "Coyote Fights a Lump of Pitch". In this story, white men are said to have erected the pitch - man that ensnares Coyote . </P>

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