away his name-sake. Forked lightning is the sword of Ilet ne-ya while sheet lightning is said to be the sword of Ilet ne-mie. Kerit The Nandi bear is an unconfirmed animal, reported to live in East Africa. It takes its name from the Nandi people who live in western Kenya, in the area the Nandi bear is reported from. It is also known as Chemisit, Kerit, Koddoelo, Ngoloko, or Duba (which derives from the Arabic words dubb or d.abʕ / d.abuʕ for 'bear' and 'hyena' respectively). The Samburu "Nkampit" appears also to be a version of this creature. Descriptions of the Nandi bear are of a ferocious, powerfully built carnivore with high front shoulders (over four feet tall) and a sloping back, somewhat similar to a hyena. Some have speculated that Nandi bears are in fact a misidentified hyena or a surviving Ice Age giant hyena: Karl Shuker states that a surviving short-faced hyaena Pachycrocuta brevirostris, extinct c. 500,000 years before present, would "explain these cases very satisfactorily." The Nandi people call it "kerit". Local legend holds that it only eats the brain of its victims. Nandi bears were regularly reported in Kenya throughout the 19th century and early 20th century. Bernard Heuvelmans's On the Track of Unknown Animals and Karl Shuker's In Search of Prehistoric Survivors provide the most extensive chronicles of Nandi bear sightings in print. Chemosit The Chemosit is often conflated with the Kerit, a creature that is thought to exist by the Kalenjin and surrounding communities. However the Chemosit is the fictitious demonic bogey creature of Kalenjin stories and is not seriously thought of as real by adult Kalenjin. The Chemosit is claimed to be a half-man, half-bird that stands on one leg and has nine buttocks. Its mouth is red and shines brightly at night like a lamp. The Chemosit propels and supports itself with a spear-like stick. There are a number of stories that feature the Chemosit, so much so that the oral literature relating to the Chemosit acquired a specific term among the Nandi, Kapchemosin. This term was also taken to mean fables, stories and legends. Like the Kerit, people are the Chemosit's food and it is said to prefer children's flesh above all else. However, unlike the Kerit which usually waits for its victims in a tree so as to swipe of their heads as they pass below, the Chemosit entraps its