Phu Quoc Island (Phu Quoc District, Kien Giang Province) is not only famous as a beautiful tourist island but also attracts tourists by the legends of some special animals such as super dogs (Phu Quoc Ridgeback), mermaid (sea cow)... This article discusses the legend of the giant python on Phu Quoc island
The story of "sacred forest killer"
Phu Quoc is a land that still contains many miracles and mysteries. Following the clues of the informant, on the way to penetrate the land of 99 mountains and hills, we could not help but be amazed at the beauty that nature bestowed on this place. People’s life is peaceful all year round in the middle of the sea and island with rolling mountains and smooth white sand beaches. When I visited this island district, I had the opportunity to sleep in the old stilt house of the owner of the pearl company Robinson, listening to the sound of insects somewhere in the air like a lyrical love song deposited, making the scene more poetic. , seductive to the heart of people...
According to the elders on the island, in the old days, all over Phu Quoc was a vast and spreading forest, people came here to reclaim land in addition to sea fishing, they could cling to the forest to survive. Their lives are often associated with the months of eating and sleeping in the forest for several weeks. Before each forest trip, the hunters have to join their hands to pray that they will not encounter the "sacred forest killer", which is a giant snake (also known as a cobra). Because just encountering that snake, their hunting trip will certainly be "more or less good". As for those who live by catching snakes, no matter how reckless they are, they only dare to catch small and medium-sized poisonous snakes such as rims, cobras, and roaring roofs, but when they encounter giant snakes, they quickly find a way to "play cards." run away" so as not to bring harm to the body.
Talking to reporters, Mr. Duong Huu Phuoc (SN 1964, living in Suoi Cat hamlet, Cua Duong commune, Phu Quoc district, Kien Giang province) said: “My ancestors were among the first to set foot on the island district. . Most recently, my father and Mr. Tam Do are two living witnesses who have encountered giant snakes many times. Unfortunately, both passed away not long ago from old age. However, the stories related to this snake cannot fade with time."
That’s right because for hundreds of years, local people still tell each other stories about giant snakes in the forest of Phu Quoc. No one knows exactly where that snake lives, but it is believed that in the middle of that deep forest, there are deep caves where this snake lives.
Giant snakes are known by the people of Phu Quoc as the "sacred forest killer", spreading terror to any hunter as well as any jungler. It is said that this species of python only walks on its tail, standing upright like a human. Each time it moves, it breathes heavily, causing the leaves to rustle, when it detects its prey it rushes like the wind, its head is sometimes higher than the canopy of the forest. It is said that many unfortunate people have gone missing because of this snake. Any hunter who encounters them will try to "run away and run for people", even some hunters have given up their guns and quit their jobs because they are too afraid of the python....
This species of python makes people afraid not only because of its size is said to be tens of meters long, weighing hundreds of kilograms, but also because of the bloody battles between it and other beasts. Not only that, giant snakes are also known as "killers" of shrimp and fish, whenever they find a pond full of fish, they wrap their heads and tails on two tree trunks, using their bodies like a bucket to slap the water they catch. fish eat!?
Around the legends about this snake, the natives also rumored another mysterious story.
The story is that a group of people came to Vung Bau, saw a dry tree, so they sat down to cook. The fire has just finished lighting, the heat rises, the tree suddenly... moved. Then suddenly there was a very loud gasp, followed by a rustling sound and then the "tree stump" stood up with a height of nearly 10 meters. Meeting a horror story, the whole crowd ran away, only to find out that the strange "tree" was a rattan cobra. Or that, at night, a group of people burned torches into the forest to hunt bees, heard the whistling sound on the back of their necks, thought the wind was blowing, only when they looked back did they see a snake the size of a coconut tree following, its body erect. stand up, just using the end of the tail is enough to move...
Some seniors also think that giant snakes live in pairs. Therefore, when killing a child, the "perpetrator" also "cannot eat well, can’t sleep" for fear that the living child will seek revenge. Every time you lie down to sleep and hear the creaking of the trees and the barking of the hounds, you have to be alert to prevent snakes from coming to take revenge. The feeling of going to the forest and meeting a rattan cobra as high as a bamboo tree to peck at is terrible. Later, because more and more people appeared, giant snakes withdrew to wild forests and deserted mountains, sometimes appearing a few small ones in forests with human breath.
Testimonials of living eyewitnesses
Mr. Phuoc was called Bay Phuoc by the people, was born in a poor family, had many children, and had no farmland, so from the age of 6, 7 he had to follow his father into the forest to find pepper venom. , hunt the beast. At that time, living in the middle of the forest, so every day his family met many wild animals such as deer, pigs, chickens, weasel, especially many kinds of snakes.
Mr. Bay Phuoc told a story about a giant snake.
Mr. Phuoc shared: “I live off the forest, so I have to have my own principles to live in peace with nature and mountains. What’s wrong with the character, if I try to harm it today, tomorrow it will definitely come to take revenge. Especially some snakes, they often come to the house to take revenge when someone threatens their life."
Mr. Phuoc analyzed, this giant snake has a light yellow body, red eyes, 20cm from the neck with cloud seeds, circles, dark yellow, their scales are bigger than cobra scales. Its venom is poisonous, and the cobra’s lair is always rotten.
Once, Mr. Phuoc and his father came back from the forest to see a snake about 10m long, as big as an adult’s thigh, lying on the trail. Seeing the giant animal, the father and son stopped. After that, no one told anyone, both threw back the things they found in the forest and ran for their lives to the village. Arriving at home, seeing that father and son were pale and bloodless, Phuoc’s mother knew right away that the two had encountered a giant snake, so she gave encouragement. After dinner, Phuoc’s father told him mysterious stories about the giant snake...
