“It growled and snapped at him, raising it's barbed tail over its back like a scorpion's sting.”
“The monster whipped its barbed tail down, flying it in like and ax, but Tau skipped away from the chitin-wrapped barb, dodging it and coming close enough to stab the demon in the shoulder of his left foreleg before moving away.”
“It had its oversize maw hanging open the black and blue tongue within flapping up and down as it eyed him.”
-Evan Winter, The Rage Of Dragons
“It is the custom of a snake which is made by a person. It is the custom of the Malunda to make a Lilomba when they wish to kill a person. They take a small piece of skin and place in it “medicine” which they obtain from a certain tree. Afterwards they made an incision in the chest and back, and taking the blood thus obtained they mix it with the medicine. They then sew the mixture up in the skin so as to make a packet of it, get a certain other medicine from the bush and drop it into the packet thus made. They then place the skin on the ground, saying, “Take our breath and take life from our breath.” in the morning when they go there they find the skin changed into a baby Lilomba.”
“This continues every month, the snake killing a person named to it by its owner, and getting bigger, until it stretches from here to the other side of the river (about 300 yards).”
G.A. M’Gregor, The Story Of The Lilomba Snake As Told By The Malunda
“The Coco macaque, or as it is sometimes called a haunted Voodoo Zombie Stick, is said to be magically prepared only on November 1st, and many who know of it's dark magical secrets will tell you that they believe that a ghost or Lwa controls it with unseen hands. Sometimes describes as a heavy jointed or knuckled wooden cane or rough hand carved wooden stick or a simple looking walking stick. They might have a knob as a handle or just be simply tied with strings or strips of red cloth or a goats tanned and dyed hide braided with bones or religious holy medals or voodoo amulets.
Coco macaque is what many refer to as a very real magical Haitian vodou implement or black magicians helping tool. Made of Haitian Coco-macaque palm wood or what ever wood one has at hand it is basically just simple thick 1 to 2 inch wooden palm tree stick, which is supposed to be possessing one of many magical powers, The strangest one is that to be able to stand up and walk on its own. Though it's appearance of walking is described more like a hopping or bouncing action. This Voodoo Magic walking stick is not bound by gravity and is said to bounce off of houses and homes and even roofs as it travels to it's commanded destination. Sometimes many people might refer to them as Voodoo Zombie Canes and swear that by all known accounts and means that they or it is possessed by the spirits of the dead. By all old Haitian accounts many will tell you that it is a simple design or sometimes crudely hand carved by a voodoo black magic priest using what ever found wood is available to them at the time. And it is a cursed or controlled by specific spirit that causes the walking stick to appear to move all by itself.
A real coco macaque is not just a common found skull-topped walking stick that so many people find in large quantities in the New Orleans French Quarter. These sticks are usually for decoration or entertainment purposes only and are often confused with real magical sticks made by the real voodosants of the city. Many people who buy them mistake them for the true magic weapon or wand of old and often pay high prices for theses poor often imported imitations.”
Lisa Lee Harp Waug, The Story Of the Real Ghost Stick
