Leeches!

It rains every evening for the last few days and the slopes up the hill is constantly wet. As a result of such wetness, leeches appear once more to taste the rich red blood of the unwary as well as the wary.

I seldom receive those leeches' attention. Either that or they are too slow for me as I usually run aver those thoroughly wet areas and was usually gone before they could leap up and hang onto my shoes to creep upwards to exposed skin to puncture holes with their sharp miniature teeth and slurp away at nutrient rich blood. Of course, there were the unlucky times when they happened to be lying in wait for my footsteps to come down upon them to give them a lift up to my delicious blood.

Once a leech even managed to find its way to the upper region of my chest to have me shocked to see blood oozing out of a tiny hole there as though someone had shot a tiny bullet towards me. that part of my T-shirt was wet with a crimson spread.

Then, this morning, a lady told us that the day before as she was hunting for a kind of white sweet nut from a little palm-like plant, two little leeches found their way towards her stomach and made two punctures in her flesh just a few inches from her navel.

From there came this story about a young girl of sixteen who played in a stream. Having her fun in those waters was a daily experience. Then a strange thing seem to be taking place as her tummy grew bigger and bigger as if she was pregnant. When question as to how she came to such a condition, she vehemently denied having had sex with anybody. Nevertheless, believing what they saw rather than her denials, the parents kept her indoor away from public scrutiny until, to her good fortune, a relative who visited her did believe her denials and believed that it could be the work of leeches from the river.

To test her belief, the relative placed something which could create a lot of smoke into a pot and had the sixteen year old sit on the pot. After some time, she felt some wriggling in her anus and, as if experiencing detoxification with coffee enema, the whole mess from her tummy cam tumbling down into the pot. Upon examination they found so many leeches in the pot. She must have been housing those leeches in her tummy as they grew and multiply. The family's dignity was restored and the girl found relief at last.

Is that just a story or is it the truth. Well, worms can survive in the stomach, so why not the leeches? And since leeches can crawl its way anywhere why not up the wet tunnel where blood is just as available, eventually reaching the stomach where there is space and food for raising a family of leeches. The one that went into her anus must have been a female, of course.