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Kaonde folklore (northwestern Zambia)

1 record of Kaonde folklore (northwestern Zambia) — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

KongamatoCryptid · Zambia · CongoIn Kaonde folklore of northwestern Zambia the kongamato — roughly “overwhelmer of boats” — is a featherless, reddish, toothed flying being of swamp and ford. Frank Melland recorded the name in 1923; pterosaur talk is colonial and cryptozoological afterlife, not the river warning itself.