Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN THE 1850s, CLICK HERE.
PART 78 – As always, it’s fascinating to read the over 100-year-old opinions of James Larkin Pearson (and by extension his Fool Killer), including the opinions that one doesn’t agree with. Here are some of the Fool Killer’s targets in October 1915:
*** Dr. Stephen Herbert Langdon, for his claim that his translations of ancient Sumerian clay tablets convinced him that instead of the Biblical First Man it was really the Bible’s version of the Survivor of the Great Flood who ate of the Forbidden Fruit. And the Forbidden Fruit was really a legume from a cassia tree, not an apple.
NOTE: I found news articles about Langdon’s claims as far back as August of 1914, but they were apparently just getting big in the U.S. in 1915. Oddly, in 1920 the New York Times, Antique Religion and others started covering Langdon’s claims as if he had just made them. At any rate, Langdon’s claims eventually influenced comparative mythology theories about the Adam and Noah stories being based on Utnapishtim and other figures from Sumerian myths.
*** Eastman Kodak Company. The Fool Killer was being very cynical about the recent decision by the Federal District Court at Buffalo, New York which ordered the company to be dissolved on anti-trust grounds. They even joked that Kodak stock would probably go up and that the company would survive intact given how so many big money corporations had circumvented anti-trust rulings from courts.
*** King George V & Czar Nicholas of the Allied Powers, and Kaiser Wilhelm of the Central Powers, all of whom said that God was on THEIR side in the raging World War. Continue reading
PART ELEVEN – Back at the home of his unfit uncle King Temugedege, Ozidi took Odogu’s Wife to bed with him that night. Though she seemed to willingly leave Odogu’s home, and in fact had led Ozidi by the hand as they fled, it became clear that the woman was playing a game of her own. 
PART TEN – We begin this installment with a much more mature and sober-minded Ozidi. We’ve seen him go from his wild and unavoidable embrace of violence during his revenge quest against the murderers of his father to destructively maintaining that reflexive violence after his vengeance had been achieved. 
PART NINE – Ozidi’s character development will continue in this installment. It starts out like the previous part, with our main character being sought by another who has heard of the many powerful opponents that Ozidi has slain and wanting to see for himself how well the young man can fight. 
Tebesonoma roams the jungles near the Niger River until he comes face to face with Ozidi, who as usual stalks the land looking for adventure. The seven-headed giant speaks to Ozidi about how much he has heard about him and goes down a list of all the figures who have fallen in combat with him. He then challenges our hero to battle.
PART SEVEN – Picking up where we left off, Ofe the chief conspirator in the murder of Ozidi the Elder had cowardly fled once again rather than face the avenging son Ozidi the Younger in combat. Ozidi’s grandmother Oreame cast spells to flush out Ofe no matter where he was hidden. 
PART SIX – Corresponding with the one-day hiatus from the story tellers and singers performing the Ozidi Epic, our hero has been sleeping after slaying Badoba. Tall Badoba was the latest of his father’s killers to meet their end at the hands of Ozidi the Younger. Only the leader of the murderers remained – Ofe. 
PART FIVE: At the conclusion of Part Four, the hero Ozidi, who possessed the strength of ten men, a lightning sword and the ability to pull other weapons out of his mouth/ innards, had killed yet another of his father’s murderers. That latest fallen foe was Akpobrisi, Wielder of Net Weapons as well as his troops. 
PART THREE: When we left off, our hero Ozidi the Younger had just finished slaying the first of his father’s murderers and Ozidi reminded his mentally unfit uncle, King Temugedege, that he is having to take care of the family business that he is incapable of. When all of the killers of Ozidi the Elder have been dealt with, his father’s spirit will be free from the deadlands limbo in which it currently dwells. 
