In the Krachi tale of the origin of death, recorded by A. W. Cardinall in the 1920s, a great famine drove a young man out along the road toward Salaga, where he came upon what seemed a hill of silky hair stretching for miles across the plain: the body of an enormous giant. The giant named himself Owuo, that is, Death, and fed the starving youth meat in exchange for service. The meat proved to be human flesh, and when the young man's sister and her maid were sent to serve the giant they were devoured in turn. The people of Krachi then set fire to Owuo's great hair and the giant perished in the flames; a magic medicine found at the roots of his hair restored his victims to life, but a remnant of it, sprinkled on the dead giant's eye, set the eye blinking forever, and each time Owuo's eye blinks a person somewhere dies. Owuo is the ordinary Twi word for death, and the same personification is known among the neighbouring Akan; the Krachi narrative, however, is its fullest mythological elaboration and became one of the most widely anthologized of African origin-of-death myths, analysed in Hans Abrahamsson's comparative monograph on the theme.