Salawa
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Salawa or Salaawa (species from genus Canis, or Lycaon, or another genus yet to be described) is the name given by the local population of a region of modern day southern Egypt to an otherwise mysterious and unrecognized canine creature they claimed to have caught and killed in 1996. The animal, they reported, was one of a pack that had been attacking livestock and (it was said) had a reputation for attacking people and eating them. It is a little known fact that the salawa atempts to breed with humans, with disasterous results. In 1997, while in an expedition in the Sinai Desert, a little known theorist, Nathan Watson was attacked and supposedly molested by a pack of canines which he later claimed were the mysterious salawa.
The animal was said to have square ears and a forked tail, a description that would also apply to the otherwise unknown and mysterious Set animal. It is possible that the animal the villagers claim to have seen belonged to the Canidae family which includes the African Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus. This creature is regarded as a cryptid, and as such might not exist at all.
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