Eater Tree Legend
Wilderness jungle on Madagascar island
The story of the cannibal tree in Madagascar
In 1887 Central America declared in the report that it had found a similar tree. This kind of tree was called Ya-Te-Veo.
In 1978, when colonial powers tried to indoctrinate and conquer people in those remote areas, they discovered that the world was so weird. They sent back to London, Brussels and Berlin what they saw and heard. They mentioned distant lands, lost cities, and animals that they couldn't see in the zoo. Of course, many of the stories they talked about were exaggerated and large. Some will be forgotten as time passes. But the wilderness jungle and its legends on Madagascar are hard to be forgotten.
Madagascar is still a clump of vegetation. For the outside world, it still has some undeveloped areas. Ninety percent of the natural flora that grows here is not visible in the rest of the world. It is a jungle. Everything can lurk inside. The German explorer Carl Liche, with a machete, led a team of local burrowing indigenous Mkodo people into the depths of the jungle. When he reached an empty place, Li Qi suddenly stopped. The sight in front of me was not seen by any white man: a trunk of "eight-foot-high pineapple" has thick leaves on it. The leaves are hanging from the top of the tree down to the ground. The seven-foot long tendrils stretch in all directions. .
Li Qi produced an ominous premonition. He started talking to his English aides and noticed that the locals were starting to get very excited. They pushed a Mkodo woman to the big tree. And begin to pray. The woman, after drinking a very strange liquid that had exuded from the cannibal tree, became “very crazy and began shouting at the bottom of the roomâ€. The hymn continued, and I saw “the brutal cannibal tree that was originally lazy, like a dead one, suddenly reviving wild vitality.â€
The tendrils stretched out like a snake, tightening the neck and body of the woman so that she could not breathe. The woman’s screams became weaker and weaker and eventually disappeared completely. At this time, the leaves wrapped her layer by layer until no gap was left. After 10 days, Li Qi returned to this place, but he saw only a pile of bones under that tree.
The story of the man-eating tree in Madagascar is a story that some people in the colonial era bragged about making up. The story first appeared in the South Australian Register. This article is clearly written by Li Qi. Once this article was published, it spread wildly and spread immediately. In 1887 Central America declared in the report that a similar tree was found. This tree is called Ya-Te-Veo. In the next century, stories about cannibalism continue to appear in myths and movies.