Fipindulule

Fipindulule lives with his wife and four children, and builds temporary shelters for the family in the bush. He tells the children to follow the honeyguide when it leads east to honey, but never to go west. The children eventually follow a western signal, find a huge tree and strike it with an axe. Kashimweshimwe, an ogre inside, asks who they are. They say they are Fipindulule’s children; when the ogre demands that they change things to prove their power, they say their father could do so. Kashimweshimwe swallows them. Later, the honeyguide leads Fipindulule’s wife west. She finds the axe, strikes the tree and repeats the same challenge about her husband; the ogre swallows her too.

Fipindulule goes to the tree himself. When Kashimweshimwe challenges him, he binds the ogre with a large leather belt, throws it down and kills it. He then asks what to do about his family and children. A black ant tells him to heat a potsherd and rub it over the ogre’s stomach. Fipindulule follows the advice, and his children and the other people swallowed by the ogre emerge. He builds a village and becomes its chief.