Obaledo and the beauty-thief monster

There was a time in an Igbo village when demons and monsters torment the younger ones. The villagers tried to kill the monsters but all their efforts were in vain. In this same village, a beautiful girl named Obaledo lived with her parents. She was very beautiful that princes from faraway lands wanted to marry her.

One day, Obaledo's parents traveled to the next village and left her yams and snails to eat. Her parents warned her not to leave the house because of monsters that roam the village especially at night. They also warned her to cook the yam before roasting the snail because the snail would quench the fire. 

When Obaledo's parents were away, she became hungry one night. She made a fire with the last matchstick and roasted the snail first because of her lust for meat. The snail quenched the fire and she couldn't roast the yam. Still hungry, she disobeyed her parents and went out of the house to collect matchstick from a neighbor. On her way she met a very ugly monster that steals beauty from young girls. She tried to run but she couldn't move her legs. The monster stole her beauty and left her with its ugliness.

Since that day, the beautiful Obaledo who was once the talk of the village now became the ugly girl no one wanted to marry.