Songomby
Also called Tsomgomby, Songaomby.
A Malagasy cave-dweller the size of an ox and as quick as a horse, hunted by hanging a child in a pot outside its lair.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Malagasy folklore
- Region
- Madagascar (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Child-Frighteners
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Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Behaviour
- Invoked to frighten children into obedience
why
That is a nursery bogie's apparatus described as though it were a hunting technique — a story told to children about what happens to children, with the child's fear as the working part.
Utility powers
- Superhuman speed
why
It is about the bulk of a cow while running like a horse, keeps to the dark, dens in rocky caves and swamps, and is described throughout the accounts as addicted to human flesh.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.