Lizard myths

I got this picture off the internet but it’s the closest looking to the lizards that reside under our rocks and in our flower beds.  They enjoy climbing up our screen door and catching flies or mosquitos.  When we first moved into our house it was infested with lizards.  It wasn’t uncommon to sit in on one of our love seats and soon find a lizard peering over your shoulder.  My response was to scream, Tim’s was to kill the things.  He’s broken two of my brooms killing lizards in our house.  Well, we’ve finally gotten a handle on the lizards because Tim “lizard-proofed” our front door.

Last week I was out on our front patio (can’t remember what I was doing) but when I came back in, a lizard followed me.  When I saw it, I screamed – it’s just automatic.  The lizard was having difficulty with our newly polished stone floor.  It slipped and slid down the hallway, then back toward me.  My house helper, Grace, thought something terrible was happening and when she saw it was only a lizard she giggled a bit.  Then she and Tim escorted the lizard outside.

When all was well with the world again: the lizards were outside and I was safely inside. Grace told me that it is a Bemba belief that if a lizard follows you, you are pregnant.  Well, I am indeed pregnant, so perhaps there is some validity to this myth.