Fangs Like Snake, Body like Lizard - A Rare, Close & Scary Sight

in Hive Learners5 months ago

I get scared easily, I've known that about myself since the first day I got too close to a dog that was supposed to be harmless as the owner said but I had to run round a big compound when I thought it was pursuing to bite me. The dog only wanted to play but my heart left my chest that day, I knew then that I get scared too easily.

Well, I thought I could make sure to avoid seeing scary sights or having such an encounter again as much as I can. It was all going well since after the dog incidence until I visited my grandma at the village. Oh! How happy I was to travel from home to the village!

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On the very afternoon we got there, it didn't take much time when grandma hurried to go get something for us at a close by store, I saw something moving in the open bush in front of our house. I was so sure I saw something but I wanted to not believe it because others around didn't seem like they saw it.

I looked again with my eyes wide opened to be sure hoping that I'll see nothing but lo and behold, it was a large lizard with it's fangs in and out of it's mouth, so old skinned and it was walking towards our house!!!

I screamed immediately to draw the attention of everyone else so they could see what I was sure to be there in the bush, my siblings gif scared like myself but surprisingly, the others (our neighbours) felt unbothered and one of them said something even more scary... "It won't harm you, it came to welcome you guys"

My siblings and I didn't seem to register what we had heard from them, we just locked the doors and ran into the house never wanting to step foot outside again if possible, the whole time of our visit. We watched the animal from the window, it just walked around the bush trying to eat stuffs with it's dancing fangs and it walked away after a long while.

Grandma came back home and it was from one story after another as we got so curious about that scary sight.

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Grandma said it's what they worship as their gods in the village and it's called an Iguan, although she is a Christian but she warned us never to hurt it or try to kill it as there are even more scary traditions around it. I can't give a full detail of what the traditions were but one thing was clear, there was no way I could harm what seem like it will harm me first lol.

One day I had forgotten the animal could come at anytime, I was preparing something in the kitchen which was situated outside the house. You needed to see how happy I was as I was making the food, singing and feeling like a guardian because grandma left the house in my care.

I turned my head to walk out of the kitchen, I saw a small but old looking Iguana right in the kitchen, very close to where I was sitting all along. I almost peed on myself, I screamed so loud that a lot of our neighbours came around and they saw that it was an Iguana again.

They couldn't force it to leave but one of them seem to know how to make it go away on it's own, he just sang one weird song and it began to walk away. I just stood still like a statue as I watch it go away, walking like a lizard but giving too much of a snake vibe. I don't think I've seen anything scarier since then.

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Wow what a nice article
Meself in my house 2e use to hunt the lizard to eat prepare it very well to eat infact am even the prayer warrior once the cooked lizard is ready to consume I will be called upon to pray. That time we are very small but not now again.
Thank God am not the one if not I would have kill alot.
Lolx

Lol that's funny
Was the meat taste different from other meats?

Lolz but the meat is very sweet ooo that time self lizard use to run from our area but the meat is sweet

Lol I see

You want to try and see right?

Nah, there are more meats to enjoy without tasting that 😅

Lolx even I can't eat now ooo that time we are very small

The people in the village might turn to you with rage if you killed that creature.

I can understand that the looks of the creature were scary but I wonder if that creature was really harmful or not 🤔. And woww it understood the signals of the song

Yeah, we were warned of the dangers of killing it so we didn't even dare 😅

It understood the signals, I couldn't even register what happened clearly because I was so scared lol.

🤣

Ohhh!
Iguana.
It know that animal, it's like a crocodile and most times scene at River side.
One of our traps caught it one that. The trap was far from river but it was somewhat riverine.
That thing is scary jareh. I still take it as crocodile because the one I saw it might like that of crocodile I used to see in movies

Yeah, it does look like a crocodile too. Very weird animal, how can one animal look like many other animals? 😅

I don't know how they came up with the different name and classification. That thing is crocodile to me😅

Hahaha, every tribe has its customs, in my village, it's a python that comes visiting and it's like their god, you dare not harm it, it is called Eke-Njaba🤣🤣, after I visited my grandma, I didn't remember going to the village again, because of that Eke.

Oh I think I know that place, we were told about it in Camp. Me I won't near such a place too o, snake sight is more dreadful 😅

So this traditions exist for real, I don't think my heart will be strong enough to accept that "it won" t harm you" statement, I will keep on screaming like you😅, I doubt if I would even give a second visit a thought.

Lol I actually went back to visit and kinda got used to seeing the animal around.

Is it an alligator or chameleon for us that aren't use to this village traditions

It looks like those but it's not any of them.

Hahaha 😀 I would be more scarier myself because I don't like seeing animals around me as I assumed all of them do hurt. I get scared oo. Omo. Singing a song as it walked away would leave my jaw opened. Lol.

Lol it was really scary, anyone could have been scared to see that for the first time 😅

That’s how they will say biggie doesn’t bite so don’t run and biggie will now bite you.😂😂

It’s the ‘it’s coming to welcome you’ for me. Your village people came to greet you in that form.😂😂

Village people indeed 😂
I don't want to be welcomed please

You don’t have a choice.😂

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