When I was a kid, big enough to be dropped off with friends at the local mall, my mom warned me to always go into public restrooms with friends because a local gang initiation was to cut off the penis of kids they found alone. As a young boy, you’re never going to admit you’re scared to your friends, and you’re not going to ask for a buddy to be lookout while you piss, so every trip to the public toilets felt riskier than riding my bike down a dirt ramp path with no helmet. Eventually, I realized my mom was full of well-intentioned shit. Like, if she really believed it, why would she ever let me out of her sight? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mutilated-boy/
But now that I’m a parent?!?!?! My fear is that I’m going to hear some terrifying report and dismiss it as an urban legend, laugh off something too sinister to take serious, and then discover that unheeded horror turns out to be true when it’s my kids in my news.
It feels like you'd have time to negotiate with any animal, except a snake. Sneaky. Especially a toilet snake.
When growing up, like so many people of my age, I feared going near rivers at night. In Moroccan folklore, the story goes that a Djin called Aicha Kandicha, kills anyone who gets near rivers at night. Maybe parents feared that their children drown, so they invented a 'swimming' boogeyman.
Anyway, a proposed origins story, goes that the name Kandicha is derived from the name 'contessa' (countess). It is said that a noble woman avenged her husband's murder, by seducing and killing Portuguese soldiers. She might have been alive in the 14th or 15th century, around the time of the "Battle of Three Kings".
I wanna believe the 'Contessa' origin cause it'll make a great action movie.
When I was a kid, big enough to be dropped off with friends at the local mall, my mom warned me to always go into public restrooms with friends because a local gang initiation was to cut off the penis of kids they found alone. As a young boy, you’re never going to admit you’re scared to your friends, and you’re not going to ask for a buddy to be lookout while you piss, so every trip to the public toilets felt riskier than riding my bike down a dirt ramp path with no helmet. Eventually, I realized my mom was full of well-intentioned shit. Like, if she really believed it, why would she ever let me out of her sight? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mutilated-boy/
But now that I’m a parent?!?!?! My fear is that I’m going to hear some terrifying report and dismiss it as an urban legend, laugh off something too sinister to take serious, and then discover that unheeded horror turns out to be true when it’s my kids in my news.
It feels like you'd have time to negotiate with any animal, except a snake. Sneaky. Especially a toilet snake.
When growing up, like so many people of my age, I feared going near rivers at night. In Moroccan folklore, the story goes that a Djin called Aicha Kandicha, kills anyone who gets near rivers at night. Maybe parents feared that their children drown, so they invented a 'swimming' boogeyman.
Anyway, a proposed origins story, goes that the name Kandicha is derived from the name 'contessa' (countess). It is said that a noble woman avenged her husband's murder, by seducing and killing Portuguese soldiers. She might have been alive in the 14th or 15th century, around the time of the "Battle of Three Kings".
I wanna believe the 'Contessa' origin cause it'll make a great action movie.