Agulu Lake, A lake in Agulu town,Anambra state has some myth behind it.

THE AGULU LAKE

Agulu lake,a lake in Agulu town,Anambra state has some myth behind it. A man in search of settlement went to Adazi-nnukwu another town in Anambra state and asked the elders for a land to settle in.

In the olden days land was not a commodity but freely shared and given.During the meeting, kola was brought to be served and a young child sent to get water for them to wash their hands.The stranger dismissed the idea, touched his bears and washed his hands with the water that flowed out.The elders gave him the evil forest. It was said that late at night sounds of clearing and cutting was heard from the evil forest and in the morning a lake lay were was once a forest. An alarmed was raised by the villagers who saw it and the lake was sent away before he became more bigger than they can control.

The man sojourned on and went to Agulu, they accepted him well and gave him a land too. He turned back into a lake but this time he was accepted by the Agulu people. He asked that a shrine be set up for him and promises the people that none of their children will ever be killed by the crocodile that inhibits the lake. When an indegene that doesn’t know how to swim ventures deep into the Lake and is about to drown, the lake throws the person up three times towards the beach. But it drowns non indegines without throwing them up or towards the beach.

The people of Adazi-nnukwu appeased the man who is now worshipped as a god, he forgave them and extend his hand which is now a lake to them and is now a little lake that settles there.