Sunday, October 03, 2010

RICHARD FREEMAN: The Daemons of the Dreamtime #2

THE YARA-MA-YAH-WHO
This red-skinned horror lurks in fig trees, hanging on with its sucker-like toes akin to some gigantic, scarlet tree frog. It is a vampire that feeds on the blood of those who fall asleep beneath its tree. Sexless, the yara-ma-yah-who reproduce like vampires as well, passing their curse on. The can swallow humans whole in their wide, toothless mouths and transform them in their gut, like a caterpillar changing into a butterfly. After several swallowing and regurgitations the victim is transformed into a new yara-ma-yah-who.

The creature may have been created as a bogey-man to stop children wandering off too far into the dangerous bush.

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