Coyote Steals Fire

“Leopard, is this how you act? You should not be prowling around at night; look at where you are! Now put your paw here and here, and I will help you out.” This quotes in the trickster tale “How stories came to earth.” In this story Anansi, a spider had to catch four animals to get stories from the Skygod. The Trickster tales “How Stories Came to Earth” and “ Coyote Steals Fire” both have similarities and differences.
In these stories they have a lot of similarities. The first thing they have in common is they both had to deal with a powerful source. Anansis powerful source was the Sky God, he had all the stories and made Anansi work for them. Coyotes powerful source is Thunder, he had the fire that Coyote needed. The next thing is they both