Rosa (not real name) was born into a polygamous home.
She had a very beautiful looking body but with an ugly face. At sixteen years of age, her buttocks wriggle as she walks. Her succulent breasts also dance to the admiration of the opposite sex.
But with all these features, men were scared of her because of her horrific face.
The face of either a gorilla or a chimpanzee can conveniently be said to be an epitome of beauty compared to hers. People began to wonder whether her mother watched a festival in which masquerades featured when she was carrying her pregnancy.
Her mother even thought about killing her with poison.
But when she made her plan known to her husband, he objected to it. He told her that God knows why she was that ugly and so to kill her would be a big sin on them.
But when she grew up, she blamed her mother as to why she didn't kill her when she was newly born because that could have saved her all the embarrassments she was facing. She can't move around freely.
Children were always mocking at her and also throwing pebbles at her.
She became really embarrassed and she blamed nature for giving her such a horrible face.
Both at school and at home, she had no single friend!
Nobody asks her hand in either platonic friendship or otherwise. The worse was even her school days because throughout her primary and secondary schools, no student ever called her 'Rosa'.
They always called her derogatory nicknames such as giant monkey, chimpanzee, monster, masquerade etc.
These nicknames gave her real embarrassment.
Then, she decided to acquire some diabolical powers so that she can punish anyone who mocks or throw stones at her.
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She went to a witchdoctor who prepared a powerful talisman for her. This talisman can enable her to change into anything that she wants at will.
With the talisman, she felt secured eventhough she has not used it.
"Yes, l am fully ready for them. Let them come. Since you people won't let me be, you too will not be at rest," She pondered. The question now is who will be her first victim?
Like an adage says, "Once a hunter enters into a forest that is infested with animals with his gun, the sound of the gun shot will be inevitable in minutes".
And so her first victims were four girls who were in the same class with her.
That eventful afternoon after closing, she carried her books and walked out of the class as usual.
She continued on her journey home. There were many other students on the road as well as her classmates.
Some of her class girls were also walking behind her.
As usual, they began to taunt her by calling her names such as horrible monster, the chimpanzee of our generation etc. Many other students later joined them and altogether, they jeer and mock at her as usual.
Like an adage says, "The vexation which doesn't take the power of its owner into consideration before erupting would also be put to shame when his owner suffers a humiliating defeat".
She could no longer bear this public disgrace. It will be a taboo for a deer to attack a hunter who is armed to the teeth without a response. And so she quickly assumed the form of a huge anaconda and it coiled round the four girls at once. It tightened its coil on them by squeezing them to death. Before people could rushed to the scene with sticks, the snake had disappeared, leaving the four corpses of the girls on the ground mutilated!
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Those who witnessed it all could hardly speak as they were dumbfounded. But the other students didn't take notice of her when she suddenly changed to the snake. The village was thrown into mourning and fear.
From her primary school to her secondary school, she killed a total of thirteen persons. When she was twenty three years old, she fell in love with a very rich young man whose father was an Oil Company's director. But for her ugliness the man never pays any attention towards all her advances towards him.
Infact, he rebuffed all her love advances towards him.
When she saw that the rich young man was not willing to accept her love overture, she used her diabolical Powers to hypnotize him. When the young man's parents saw that their handsome son has suddenly fallen in love with this ugly looking lady, they became embarrassed and disappointed in him. They called him and advised him not to marry her because of her appearance. But he told them that he loves her and nothing would ever changed his love for her.
When all their effort to persuade him to leave her failed, it then dawned on them that there was much to their love than meets the ordinary eyes. And so they went to consult a witchdoctor. But Rosa was already aware of the young man's parents' plan through her spiritual powers. And she changed into a lion and she went quickly and intercepted them on their way to the witch doctor's temple and killed them. Again, there was a commotion in the village when the news of their death got to the people.
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It became the case of one killing too many in the village. Now, the village king who himself was a spiritual priest decided to find out the cause of the strange killings in the village by unknown assailants. The mysterious killing of the rich couple caused an uproar and a great concern. The villagers were forced to troop out to the King's palace to register their displeasure and resentment.
The king assured them that he would in no time do everything humanly possible to unravel the causes and also the sources of the mysterious killings.
After the people had left, he took his divination wand and he headed towards his shrine.
But again, Rosa who has already knew the plan of the king through her spiritual powers quickly assumed the form of a lion and blocked him. The king tried to recite some incarnations very quickly to subdue the lion but to no avail as the lion devoured him in no time and it disappeared.
When the members of the Royal family who heard the shout of the king got there, the only things they saw were blood, human flesh scattered on the ground and the King's wand and robe! It was at this stage that the women in the village decided to take the matter to the ancestors. That night, all the women whom had attained menopause, stripped themselves naked and they laid a curse on whatever thing that is responsible for the bizarre killings in the village; be it human or otherwise.
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When Rosa saw that all the elderly women were outside in nude, she metamorphosed to a crocodile and she decided to attack the women to stop them from laying the curse.
She succeeded in scaring the women away. She appeared in the middle of the road and the women fled in different directions. Some fell into pits, others fell into dried up Wells while some fled into the streams.
She became satisfied for having achieved her aims.
She heaved a sigh of relief for now. But she knew that the danger was far from been over yet because the women may come up in another form. When the women saw what took place, they were convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the evil forces behind the killings was directly from the village.
Now, there was a witchdoctor who was a one-eyed woman. She lived in one of the neighbouring villages.
She was told that some people fled from one of the neighbouring villages down to their village for fear of being devoured by a strange crocodile.
She requested to see some of those who fled down.
A few of the women were brought before her. She asked them what brought them down. They narrated the whole story to her from the starting to when they fled.
She then asked them if they need her help to unravel the causes of all the killings in the village and to stop it.
They said that was exactly what they wanted.
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She told them to take her to their leader.
They told her that their king was also killed not too long ago. They then decided to go back to their village to make the words of the witchdoctor known.
The witchdoctor told them that she would fortify them because the killer had seen and known about all that they had so far discussed and she will ambush them and kill seven of them. She told them that in order to solve the mystery and nip it in the bud, human sacrifices would be required from amongst them.
What she meant was that amongst them who stood before her seven women should volunteer their life as a sacrifice. When they heard this, they became sad once more. Who would volunteer her life for the villagers to be set free? This became another obstacle and a clog in the wheels of freedom.
The worse of it all was they can't get back to their village.
If they could, the matter would be brought to the public for a possible robust contribution and advise. They can't volunteer their life for the rest villagers. From what the witchdoctor had said, seven women must be killed from amongst them. They told her that they can't volunteer their life on behalf of the villagers.
And so they fled forward to another village called 'Oropopo' which means, the residence of the dead. It was believed that the dead live in this village because no human being in it. But there were houses, a river and everything that are found in the residence of the living, including farms, fire and cooking utensils etc.
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As they were still wondering where all the villagers may have gone to, they heard a very loud and cleared voice saying, "what are you the living seeking in the land of kpokpos?" Meaning the dead.
"The land of the dead?!" They were surprised.
THE DEAD: Come closer, mothers of earth.
The women walked closer to where the voice was coming from. And a figure like that of a human being but with a tree's body appeared.They were afraid and they attempted to run away. But the figure calmed them. "What do you want?" The figure asked them. They narrated their ordeal.
The figure asked them to go to a neighbouring village and get a mirror. They did.
When they brought the mirror, the figure asked them to make a circle and place the mirror on the middle. When they did, the face of a lady appeared on it. And it asked them if they know the face. And they shouted, "Yes! This is Rosa, one of our daughters!"
The figure then said, "She is the person committing all the killings".
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The women were surprised to hear that all the mysterious killings were been perpetrated by their own daughter. She told them that something led her into the killings not that she was born an evil child. "But things can't be the same again because it has begun! Another good thing about this whole happenings is that she can definitely be stopped. But when that happened, she would definitely be lynched by the angry villagers. Thereafter, another problem will start which l will not be allowed to tell you now. It will be terrible in the village!
To put a permanent stop to her evil machinations, you people need to bring her here alongside some elderly women and men of your village. But it will not be safe for you to do that or else you too will become victims. I am going to empower you down there", she said.
She fortified them and they left. When they got back home, the village was almost empty as the people had fled the village for their safety. They began to call out for the people to come out using town criers. About a month later, the people had come back. They thanked the women for their efforts. They then got hold of Rosa and her parents and together they left.
But the crowd was unprecedented as everybody wants to go and see how it will end. But this crowd breached the regulations of the spirits and so they couldn't get back to the place again. They wandered for about a month turning round without making any advancement.
Then, one night, one of the women dreamt and the spirits told her that the reason why they couldn't get to Oropopo was because the crowd was too much. She told the people about her dream. And so they adjusted the emissaries to a sizeable number. They finally found the village. But again, the spirits faulted the emissaries because some witches and wizards were amongst them.
This brought another controversy as the spirits insisted on exposing them all as the spiritual mirror will display all the evil activities in the village. Many became uneasy as it became cleared to them that their time was up. But the spirits insisted on doing their job since the women had sought for their assistance. They made the sky above appeared as a mirror. They asked all the people to sit down comfortably and look at the sky. They did and behold!
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And the the evils and the doers were shown clearly live like a television set. It was a bizarre scene as some of them who were also there had their faces and activities shown!
There was a pandemonium as some fled halfway because they couldn't withstood the disgrace.
The spirits pointed out the people's fault in failing to caution themselves and their children when they mocked at her. They said that although she protected herself through a very brutal evil way, the people should also share in the punishment because they were still accomplice to have condole such activities.
Out of anger and frustration, the crowd descended on Rosa and her family and beat them to death.
But the worse was yet to come for the people!
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After this incident, the people could neither see the Natural television in the sky nor hear the voice of the spiritual entity. They had no alternative but to find their way back home. After about two months of a torturous journey, they finally arrived their village. But those whom their witchery powers were exposed by the natural television as well as those whom were branded as evil doers didn't allow the people to come into the village because they feared that they may decide that all those whom were indicted of one evil deed or the other should be killed.
There was a big fighting between the two groups. Those outside the village were very angry and disappointed on their fellow village men and women for not allowing them to come back to their homes. After about a month of a fierce fighting, those returning from the journey defeated those inside the village.
Because they were humiliated by their fellow villagers, they avenged the humiliation with a bleeding heart and blind rage. Death reached its harvest! When those inside the village saw that corpses of their people were seen lying about the streets, they feared for their life and so they fled.
The once Peace people became an enemy of one another.
It became extremely bad as those who returned from the journey decided to wipe out their fellow villagers who tried to bar them from coming back.
They pursued after them cruelly murdered them. We could recall here that this was exactly what the spiritual entity told them that they would kill Rosa and that would bring more problem to the village. This has fulfilled!
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