SOURCE: "The Lizard God' by Charles J. Finger (1921) from In Lawless Lands

DESCRIPTION: ""I awoke presently, feeling something run lightly and swiftly across my face. I thought it was a spider. It seemed to run in a zig-zag. Then feeling nothing more I set it down to fancy and dropped off to sleep again, face turned towards that idol. Later, I felt the same kind of thing run across my neck. I knew it was no fancy then, and my scare vanished because here was something to do. So I waited with my right hand poised to grab. I waited a long time, too, but I have lots of patience. Presently it ran down my body starting at my left shoulder and I brought down my hand at a venture, claw fashion, and caught the thing on the blanket. I felt the blanket raise and then fall again, just a little, of course, as I lifted my hand with the thing in it, and by that knew that it had claws. Yet bet I held tight. It seemed to be hard and smooth. It was a wiry, wriggling thing, somewhat like a lizard. But it was much more vigorous than any lizard. I tried to crush it, but could not. As to thickness, it seemed to be about the diameter of one of those lead pencils. It was like this I had it....All that I saw was that the thing was white and had a triangular shaped head." ("The Lizard God" by Charles J. Finger)

NOTES: The White Lizard can be found near the old temple of the Lizard God Nao in Africa. The White Lizard is a fast-moving creature as thin as a pencil and poisonous. Those bitten by the lizard become feverish and then homicidal. The bite wound swells to the size of a goiter. Unlike other lizards it is not torpid during the night but active.

HISTORY: Have to admit Iwas disappointed when the big bad of Nao didn't show up. Finger remains well within the possible. Still...