Variations: Siani
The Nguluka or Siani can be found in Malawi’s Chitipa district, specifically in the Mafinga Ridge and the Matipa Forest in the Misuku Hills. Anyone who sees it dies.
A nguluka is a flying snake that looks like a guineafowl, complete with feathers and wings. In fact, only its fanged head is that of a snake. It makes a crowing call that sounds like “yiio, yiio”.
Ngulukas live in caves and tree branches in the deep forest. Their lairs are strewn with the bones of their victims. These snakes feed on figs and like to roost in fig trees. They are most active at night, especially on moonlit nights when the figs ripen.
References
Hargreaves, B. J. (1984) Mythical and Real Snakes of Chitipa District. The Society of Malawi Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 40-52.
A Book of Creatures 
Imagine in your tombstone it says “Died because he saw a guineafowl snake” and people at the burial are like “Huh? Ok”
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But is it worse than getting eaten by an ogre with nine buttocks?
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I mean, but getting eaten sounds more reasonable
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Why can’t there EVER be nice, cheerful snakes (other then the pareas)? Even snakes mixed with the world’s least dangerous flightless fowl kill people. *SIGH*.
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The rainbow serpent, Huayramama, and Araganaqlta’a are pretty nice!
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Guineafowl are beautiful creatures, and so is this. Shameful I can’t look at it or I’ll die.
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It kills with sheer beauty
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I’d love to believe that the Nguluka is the long lost cousin of the dinosaur Coelophysis. The description isn’t a million miles off that of this small, slender and possibly feathered relative of the Asian velociraptors! One can but dream….
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If it kills everyone who sees it, how does anyone know what it looks like?
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Hence the mysetry
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So, if anyone who sees the nguluka dies, how do we know what it looks like?
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“Okay,so its a snake/bird and-”
“Does it come from lower Eastern Africa?”
“Yesssss?”
“Nandi Bear”
“Come on!”
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Nandi Bird?
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Yep
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Whoops, sorry about the double comment. I thought my previous one didn’t go through.
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No worries 🙂
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Un cousin africain du cocatrix ou de la version coq du basilic, cette créature me fait également penser au peuchen sans le côté vampire et métamorphe de ce dernier …
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On pourrait même écrire un livre entier sur les gallinacés serpentiformes!
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ça peut être une idée originale 🙂
penser vous que tout comme les dragons ces fameux gallinacés sont une sorte de créature universel ?
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Je pense bien que oui, mais pourquoi? Je n’ai aucune idee. Tout le monde aime exagerer les creatures veneneuses, mais pourquoi la poule alors?
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peut être parce que la poule est inoffensive et du coup on pourrait peut être y voir une morale comme méfiez vous des apparences.
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Désolé, mais pourquoi parlons-nous en français?
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Pourquoi pas? 🙂
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C’est suffisant.
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Désolé, je suis française et je n’est plus de cours d’anglais depuis longtemps …
Je préfère parler français par peur de massacrer l’anglais avec mes fautes de grammaire et d’orthographe.
Comme en plus je suis dysorthographique ça ne m’aide pas 🙂
Mais si vous voulez je peut essayer de faire des efforts et commenter en anglais, cela ne me dérange pas 🙂
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Nan, vous pouvez tous parler en francais!
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d’accord merci 🙂
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i saw one today as i was hunting in Mafinga hills, I manage to collect its eggs
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Literally a cockatrice by reversed.
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Random thought: If an nguluka and a cockatrice were to breed the offspring would have a chance at being a normal chicken and a chance at being a normal snake.
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