The Scary Tales of a Nigerian Childhood (Because It's Halloween! #4)

It all goes to show how globalized the world has become, when we in Nigeria are still basking in the afterglow of a Halloween we don't celebrate!
So I decided to use this opportunity to recount the scary tales of Nigerian 90-kids childhood (in orther words, my childhood). I hope I remember them all!

1. Ayamatanga

Okay, so I recently heard that it's actually 'I am at anger!', but whatever. The phrase was so popular I'm sure 90% of persons can't actually remember the title of the movie it came from --a Mount Zion Christian movie about Hell and evil. For us kids, it was downright horrifying!
Also I should probably mention other movies like 'Karishika' and 'Highway to the Grave'.

2. The Witch Next Door

Oh, come on! You're a Nigerian and you don't know your next door neighbour is a witch?! Sorry... a weensh? You don't know that if you eat anything given to you by an outsider, you stand the risk of being initiated? Oh, what about the housegirl that killed her 'Oga' or 'Madam' or their children and drank their blood? Or the one who was caught in the middle of the night with her own severed head in her hands... probably making her hair or something.
Yeah, I thought so.

3. Is that really a cat?

A cat? Nope! Probably a transformed witch come to do some eeeevilll! Oh, and it better not be black, because that will mean a whole lot of 'casting and binding' is needed.
Now don't let me get started on cockroaches or rats.

4. Occultic Films

Once you see Kanayo O. Kanayo, Tony Umez and Pete Edochie in one movie, you're sure to see some scary as hell Occultic crap going on. The effects might've not been so good, but to a kid, they were perfect. Stuff of nightmares, they were.

5. Improvised moral tales

Everybody has his! Mine was about Éléran, the meat hawker, and how he slices up stubborn children and sells them as meat. Yeah... great bedside story, right?

6. Chucky

Now this should've fallen under a header like 'Foreign horror movies', but Child's play was something else! I was terrified of all my sister's dolls and teddy bears and all our toys after I watched it. And the scene where he tried to transfer his spirit into Andy? There are no words to describe the fear, really.

What did I miss? What were the scary tales of your childhood? Let's hear in the comments!