Does Bigfoot roam the jungles of South Asia? It is still difficult to answer this question, but there are still prospects of finding a relict hominoid (monkey-man) in this region. A piece of wool from India, which recently puzzled British scientists, is proof of this.
Back in 1887, the English traveler Hugo Neville heard about this tribe, which was named Nittaevo, from a Sinhalese hunter. The hunter, in turn, learned about Nittaevo from his friend, who was one of the last representatives of the Vedda tribe, who lived in the southeast of Ceylon (since 1972, the island of Sri Lanka). An elderly relative by the name of Coraleia told him about the wild folk.
The Nittaevo people lived in a remote mountainous area of the Leanama region. They were very short, upright creatures without tails, their height ranged from 90 to 120 cm. According to some reports, their whole body was covered with thick hair, according to others - thick hair was only on the legs. They had stocky and powerful hands with short hands, the fingers of which ended in sharp long claws. They did not speak Nittaevo, but they communicated with each other with the help of some chirping sounds.
These dwarf creatures lived in small groups in caves or on platforms, a kind of "nest" built from branches and covered with a canopy of leaves. They ate mainly meat: they caught squirrels, snakes, lizards, birds; immediately tore apart the victim's belly with sharp claws and ate the carcass. People from the Vedda tribe despised these creatures for their way of life, and since Nittaevo regularly stole meat from people, hung out for drying, then one day peaceful coexistence came to an end.
Nittaevo had only sharp claws, while people had spears, bows and arrows. The dwarfs were exterminated. Only due to their dexterity and cunning, they still managed to survive for some time and even attacked sleeping people at night, ripping their bellies with claws. However, this did not last long: at the end of the 18th century, the Veddas drove the last Nittaevo into the cave, covered the entrance with branches and set it on fire. None of them survived.
You might think that Neville could have been told some kind of fairy tale, but this information was confirmed at the beginning of the twentieth century. Frederick Lewis visited the Leanama area and also heard about these unusual creatures, and he was told that the last fight with Nittaevo took place five generations ago. The information about nittaevo basically coincided with what Neville received at the time.
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