On this day It is forbidden to go out of the village in that direction, but once the whole bush used to be a no-go zone. The content is left out of the village, to the West. The following day, people dust their houses early in the morning and gather the dirt in a gourd, along with some tomso and faro. Both tomso and faro are food prepared with bean flour, one fried and the other boiled. So I will eat the tomso and the faro of the hyena”. They ask for food, with a refrain that goes: “A child told me he is going to kill me. Children walk around the village at night, humming: “ MMMMI!”, the cry of the hyena. The saraka is called in Seenku Kurusa, which means the cry of the hyena ( kuru). A karamogo, a teacher of Quranic studies, provided the correct interpretation of the hyena’s cry: she was saying she would leave the village, but if villagers wanted rain to fall again they had to perform a saraka, a ritual offer. The hyena started to cry, and villagers were scared by the howl. According to a version, they were killed by the hunters, or according to another version they starved to death.

One night, she was left without her offspring. She brought her cubs to eat the earth men dug out of the hole. Once upon a time a hyena came to feed at night in Karankasso, in a hole under the tall trees I see from my house.

The cry of the hunted