Chemosit (Chemosin; conflated with the cryptid name Kerit) is the man-eating ogre/bogey of Nandi/Kalenjin folklore: half man and half huge ape-faced bird, one-legged, nine-buttocked, with a red mouth that shines like a lamp, who walks on a spear-like stick and at night sings to lure children out to be devoured. Authored as a numen (a named folklore monster-being), era 'mythic'. SOLITARY: no kin (parent, sibling, spouse or child) is attested for Chemosit in Hollis (1909) or Huntingford (1953), so no kin edge is asserted. inheritability 'none' throughout (no blood/descent powers).
Domains
child stealing
monsters
night
Powers
Lures children into the night with his song and glowing mouth
Devours people, above all the flesh of children
Moves on a single leg propped by a spear-like stick
Epithets
half like a man and half like a huge, ape-faced bird
Sources
A. C. Hollis, The Nandi: Their Language and Folk-lore (Clarendon Press, 1909) — the ogre Chemosit, described by Kitapmetit arap Kipet
G. W. B. Huntingford, The Nandi of Kenya (1953) — Nandi folklore beings
Consolidated synthesis after Hollis ('Kalenjin folklore'): Chemosit, half man / half ape-faced bird, one-legged, nine-buttocked, red glowing mouth, devourer of children.