Lastly, the lore of the Shetani—which means “demon” in Swahili—was partially inspired by a real occurrence that took place in Kenya between March and December of 1898. As it happened, for several months, two brother lions systematically stalked and brutally killed construction workers who were trying to build the Kenya-Uganda Railway that was meant to bring the two countries together. Lions in the Tsavo area weren’t an unusual occurrence, but the behavior of these particular lions was what made them strange (male lions usually don’t hunt, and they certainly don’t hunt together). At one point,
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