TANO AND MULAHU

African giant primates always fascinate me, so I thought I'd mention a couple.

From Ghana, a strange creature called the Tano Giant has been reported.  It was said to have white skin with black hairs.and was very tall.  It carried off and killed children.  It once carried off a woman, but her fate has not been established.  A curious feature of this animal was it lacked a thumb.  However, Ivan sanderson suggested it may have in fact had a thumb which was invisible to the onlooker.

If we go further south to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire and before that the Belgian Congo), we find the Ituri Forest.  A hunter called Attilio Gatti was told of a very large animal which inspired great terror in the natives.  It appears to have been a primate, its face sporting white hair and the rest of it black ones. It usually walked bipedally.  This creature was called the Mulahu.

I recently alluded to a Nepalese tradition of a female yeti who captured and later mated with a human, producing offspring.  Human-Yeti partnerships have happened in a number of Nepalese traditions.  In addition, there was a legend in India of a Van Manas
which captured a young man, to whom she bore a number of children.  He escaped from her, but she at length recaptured him.