Dhagdheer story: The Woman Who Ate People


 Introduction

Dhagdheer story is a Somali story that is popular among Somali society and is a story that is told to children, so that they are not wary of the tricks of dangerous people and dangerous things that should not be easily trusted,

Dhagdheer and the traveler

Dhagdheer is a woman who used to eat people and used many tricks to deceive people in order to eat people and one of the tricks she used was to build many houses in a deserted place and she intended for travelers to deceive and eat them there, one day a traveler was traveling and he saw the houses that Dhagdheer had built and he thought that there were people living there when he turned around he saw Dhagdheer then he was surprised by her ugly face he looked at her very closely, then she said to Dhagdheer, why are you looking at me like that, did you get scared of my nose, or were you afraid of my nails and I grew up with hope in my childhood, the man said I am a traveler and thirsty, so give me water, then she said, go to the 10th house and drink water from the tanks in the area,and  wait for me there, I will  bring fire from these areas, the man went to the place she indicated to drink water, but he mis uderstood the house, and entered the 9th house, he saw a person standing in the tank with his clothes on and five fingers between his fingers, the man was shocked when he realized that the woman was the woman who ate people in Dhagdheer, the tank the man saw was called Bowdheer, and Dhagdheer used to eat the flesh of people she ate, when the lid of the tank was removed, its sound could be heard from afar, Dhagdheer returned to her house when she heard Bowdheer's tank being emptied, then she saw the tank with the lid removed and the man who had escaped, she tracked down the man and caught him running away and caught him ,and she ate at night and said, "This man drove his way"

End

Dhagdheer was one of the Somali stories that is often told in the Somali region, and there are many stories about dhagdheer, each one more terrible than the other.

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