I get scared easily, I've known that about myself since the first day I got too close to a dog that was supposed to be harmless as the owner said but I had to run round a big compound when I thought it was pursuing to bite me. The dog only wanted to play but my heart left my chest that day, I knew then that I get scared too easily.
Well, I thought I could make sure to avoid seeing scary sights or having such an encounter again as much as I can. It was all going well since after the dog incidence until I visited my grandma at the village. Oh! How happy I was to travel from home to the village!
On the very afternoon we got there, it didn't take much time when grandma hurried to go get something for us at a close by store, I saw something moving in the open bush in front of our house. I was so sure I saw something but I wanted to not believe it because others around didn't seem like they saw it.
I looked again with my eyes wide opened to be sure hoping that I'll see nothing but lo and behold, it was a large lizard with it's fangs in and out of it's mouth, so old skinned and it was walking towards our house!!!
I screamed immediately to draw the attention of everyone else so they could see what I was sure to be there in the bush, my siblings gif scared like myself but surprisingly, the others (our neighbours) felt unbothered and one of them said something even more scary... "It won't harm you, it came to welcome you guys"
My siblings and I didn't seem to register what we had heard from them, we just locked the doors and ran into the house never wanting to step foot outside again if possible, the whole time of our visit. We watched the animal from the window, it just walked around the bush trying to eat stuffs with it's dancing fangs and it walked away after a long while.
Grandma came back home and it was from one story after another as we got so curious about that scary sight.
Grandma said it's what they worship as their gods in the village and it's called an Iguan, although she is a Christian but she warned us never to hurt it or try to kill it as there are even more scary traditions around it. I can't give a full detail of what the traditions were but one thing was clear, there was no way I could harm what seem like it will harm me first lol.
One day I had forgotten the animal could come at anytime, I was preparing something in the kitchen which was situated outside the house. You needed to see how happy I was as I was making the food, singing and feeling like a guardian because grandma left the house in my care.
I turned my head to walk out of the kitchen, I saw a small but old looking Iguana right in the kitchen, very close to where I was sitting all along. I almost peed on myself, I screamed so loud that a lot of our neighbours came around and they saw that it was an Iguana again.
They couldn't force it to leave but one of them seem to know how to make it go away on it's own, he just sang one weird song and it began to walk away. I just stood still like a statue as I watch it go away, walking like a lizard but giving too much of a snake vibe. I don't think I've seen anything scarier since then.
