bogleech:

bogleech:

I did a little feature on the first book by Amos Tutuola the other day but here’s a really great character description from the second book:

“Evil of evils” who was the ruler of all the evils
and who was always seeking evils about, evil-joking,
evil-walking, evil-playing, evil-laughing, evil-talking,
evil-dressing, evil-moving, worshipping evils in the
church of evils and living in the evil-house with his evil
family, everything he does is evil, attended the service
too, but he was late before he arrived and when he shook
hands with me on that day, I was shocked as if I touch
a “live electric wire”, but my friend was signalling to
me with his eyes not to shake hands with him to avoid
the shock but I did not understand. 

Not related to Evil of Evils but one thing that happens in this book – “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” –  is that the protagonist gets imprisoned for days and days inside a hollow tree along with a giant snake and the giant snake scares him all the time which causes him to cry almost constantly and the sound of a child crying is like great music to ghosts so this one ghost starts carrying the tree around like a boom box and dancing with it and he becomes really popular and gets invited to all the hottest ghost parties because of his log with the sobbing child inside