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Mamlambo is a deity in South African and Zulu mythology, the "goddess of rivers", described as a large snake-like creature. In 1997, South African newspapers (including Johannesburg's The Star and Cape Town's Cape Argus) reported on sightings of a "giant reptile" monster in the near Mount Ayliff in South Africa. Villagers in the area claimed that the creature was 20 meters (67 feet) long, had the head of a horse, the lower body of a fish, short legs, and the neck of a snake, and that it shined with a green light at night. During the period between January and April 1997, as many as nine deaths had been attributed to the Mamlambo. According to police, the victims had been in the water a while and had the soft parts of their heads and neck eaten by crabs; local villagers, on the other hand,

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  • Mamlambo is a deity in South African and Zulu mythology, the "goddess of rivers", described as a large snake-like creature. In 1997, South African newspapers (including Johannesburg's The Star and Cape Town's Cape Argus) reported on sightings of a "giant reptile" monster in the near Mount Ayliff in South Africa. Villagers in the area claimed that the creature was 20 meters (67 feet) long, had the head of a horse, the lower body of a fish, short legs, and the neck of a snake, and that it shined with a green light at night. During the period between January and April 1997, as many as nine deaths had been attributed to the Mamlambo. According to police, the victims had been in the water a while and had the soft parts of their heads and neck eaten by crabs; local villagers, on the other hand, claimed that these mutilations had been caused by the Mamlambo's habit of eating faces and brains. For this reason, the Mamlambo is often referred to as "the Brain Sucker". As Felicity Wood points out in The Extraordinary Khotso (2007), "the mamlambo tends to be associated with Western forms of prosperity, like money, so the fact that she is often depicted as a Western mermaid. She has arisen in part from a sense of disconnection to a traditional, communal way of life, inequalities and imbalances in the social order, and the lure of Western materialism. Like the Mami Wata, she is a dangerous, seductive figure, offering wealth and power but able to bring about terrifying ruin". (en)
  • Mamlambo es una deidad en la mitología sudafricana y zulú, la "diosa de los ríos", descrita como una serpiente larga.​ El mito de Mamlambo se volvió de interés para los cryptozoologos en 1997, cuando algunos periódicos sudafricanos (incluyendo The Star de Johannesburgo and de Ciudad del Cabo) reportaron supuestos avistamientos de un monstruo "reptil gigante" en el cerca del en Sudáfrica. También se reportó que el monstruo había matado a 9 personas. Pobladores del área afirmaron que el monstruo media 20 metros (67 pies) de largo, tenía cabeza de caballo, la parte inferior de un pez, piernas cortas, y el cuello de serpiente,​ y que brillaba con una luz verdosa durante la noche: una descripción similar a la de un Elasmosaurus, el cual fue un grupo de reptiles marinos gigantes que vivió y se extinguió con los dinosaurios, o la ballena primitiva Ambulocetus.​ 9 cuerpos se encontraron en el Río Mzintlava; de acuerdo con la policía, estuvieron en el agua por un tiempo prolongado y sus partes blandas alrededor de sus cabezas y cuello había sido devoradas por los cangrejos; los pobladores, por otro lado, aclamaban que estas mutilaciones habían sido causadas por el hábito de Mamlambo de comer caras y "succionar cerebros". Por esta razón se le llama también "el succiona cerebros".​ (es)
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  • Mamlambo is a deity in South African and Zulu mythology, the "goddess of rivers", described as a large snake-like creature. In 1997, South African newspapers (including Johannesburg's The Star and Cape Town's Cape Argus) reported on sightings of a "giant reptile" monster in the near Mount Ayliff in South Africa. Villagers in the area claimed that the creature was 20 meters (67 feet) long, had the head of a horse, the lower body of a fish, short legs, and the neck of a snake, and that it shined with a green light at night. During the period between January and April 1997, as many as nine deaths had been attributed to the Mamlambo. According to police, the victims had been in the water a while and had the soft parts of their heads and neck eaten by crabs; local villagers, on the other hand, (en)
  • Mamlambo es una deidad en la mitología sudafricana y zulú, la "diosa de los ríos", descrita como una serpiente larga.​ El mito de Mamlambo se volvió de interés para los cryptozoologos en 1997, cuando algunos periódicos sudafricanos (incluyendo The Star de Johannesburgo and de Ciudad del Cabo) reportaron supuestos avistamientos de un monstruo "reptil gigante" en el cerca del en Sudáfrica. También se reportó que el monstruo había matado a 9 personas. Pobladores del área afirmaron que el monstruo media 20 metros (67 pies) de largo, tenía cabeza de caballo, la parte inferior de un pez, piernas cortas, y el cuello de serpiente,​ y que brillaba con una luz verdosa durante la noche: una descripción similar a la de un Elasmosaurus, el cual fue un grupo de reptiles marinos gigantes que vivió (es)
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