Grootslang

Like you said, you mentioned the ant people.

I mean, Africa, the Grootslang, like we're making jokes about this morning, but like the Grootslang lives in these giant underground voids that cities could fit into is what they talk about.

Some of them, like, literally are city-sized that we do know about.

Like in Mammoth Cave and stuff like

And what is commonly called the Gereep Monster actually comes from the Afrikaans.

The Afrikaans have got a word for it called the Grootslang.

Okay, just basically a big snake.

I found an interesting reference to the gharib monster as well in a wonderful book that is written by a lady by the name of Penny Miller.

dancing.

Exactly, and he would then use that to go hunting and to catch his prey.

And there's various, again, you know, there's various stories about about the Grootslang and how he does it etc etc there's unverified stories of European explorers trying to find him and going down into caves and never coming back there's you know all that kind of stuff but those again are probably more myth and legend than any kind of truth there's From the early, let's call it the late 1800s, 1860s, 1870s, that area was kind of opening up.

Diamonds were discovered in that area as well.

Number three.

Living in a deep cave system, what South African creature has the head and forelimbs of an elephant and the body of a snake? The Grootslang.

The name means great snake in Afrikaans.

Number 4.

dragons are all over the place.

Even in Africa, there's the dragon that's the Grootslang, which may be the OG of them all, which is sort of, not entirely a dragon, but sort of a dragon, definitely a serpent, but sort of is a combination it's it it sort of hoards jewels and things like that but it but it's also like the sphinx it can be reasoned with it's like a gin it's it's it's more like a chaos agent but only within its own domain you you you go to it it's it's not looking to cause problems but you can you can bargain with it you can reason with it you can bribe it you can catch it in a good mood you can catch it on a bad mood but it's very much like a human really

yeah also just you mentioned africa There is the legend that there is a large reptile in the rainforest, and cryptozoologists have linked it to possible survivors from the Cretaceous period, like a dinosaur.

I don't know what kind of basis that has, whether it's true or not, but it is fascinating to think about.

Up next, the Groot Slang.

The Grootslang?

A little bit of Afrikaans for you.

I'm going to say not a dragon.

I'm going to need you to spell that real quick.

G-R-O-O-T-S-L-A-N-G.

Grootslang.

Okay.