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The dreadful attack of the blood-craving manticore

Far back in a small village of Gawuzu, the people believed so much in their god - Wuzu, named after the town who they believe to protect them against attacks from wild animals, spirits, diseases and enemies.

"Wuzu", the wooden-carved statue with a human head, body of a Lion, and the tail of a scorpion, decorated with human blood dripping from its mouth,human bones and skulls tied round it's neck demands a maiden be sacrificed to it at every full moon as directed by the priest "Golu" who also possessed the power of divination.

At the hour, when the next sacrifice was to be made, Golu ready for propitiation, the maiden to be presented had fled. The disappearance was a mystery to the priest. His intestine right in his mouth, fear overwhelmed him knowing the calamity about to befall the village if Wuzu finds its offering wanting. He had no choice but to reveal it. Tension covered young and old. But it's too late making for another maiden.

Every souls in the village were murdered in bloodbath. Some eaten by wild animals, plagues, others, having their stomachs swollen and burst.