''The self-segmenter can lengthen her thread-like tongue to reach a victim sleeping on the floor while she crouches on the roof. Her favorite dish is in the womb, and the phlegm which tuberculars and asthmatics spit out. But the most striking trait of this creature is her ability to discard her lower members-from shoulders down; from hips down and from knees down. She leaves her discarded lower body in a closet, in the backyard, or, right in her bed. In the last case she quietly pulls the sheet tight over her pillow at the other so that the gap in-between does not show she is not home.
The self-segmenter alights on the roof and insinuates her tongue through the shingles. The tongue enters one of the ten bodily openings of the sleeping victims- eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, navel, anus or genitals If the victim is awake, she spins out her tongue to the fineness of a spider thread and floats it on the air while waiting for him to go to sleep.
A self-segmenter comes to her monstrous state after swallowing a mysterious black chick, which emerges from the throat of another self-segmenter who is too old to go out on raids. A self-segmenter cannot die until someone takes her office. She craves for viscera hen fledgling, said to be lodged in her stomach, begins cheeping. The chick can be expelled by the creature herself being fumigated while lashed upside down to a tree. Or she may be seated on a swing and the ropes twirl around till she gets dizzy and throws up the monstrous bird. The evil chick then should be caught in a fire blazing underneath.''
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How do you view this creature?
How do you think that this legend came to be?
If these things exist, what do you think could be done to ward them off?
Have you ever known someone who's had such an encounter?
