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Old Belief
← Berberoka
Close view of soft grey river mud printed with deep bare footprints, water seeping into them, a shell and a tuft of grass at the edge

the mud underfoot

The trap is the ground. Soft mud in a drained pool holds a person exactly as long as the water takes to come back.

Basis: The physical hazard behind the belief · AI-generated

More of this creature

Stream channel drawn down to a film of pale muddy water between rock banks, a dozen silver fish left stranded and flapping in the openthe pool drained →Brown floodwater filling a channel from bank to bank and carrying leaves and branches, tall reeds and grasses standing along both sides under a grey skythe flooded channel →