The quibungo has huge, hairy hands and big nails, which it uses to grab children to eat. It is an animal, and sometimes described as such. Certain descriptions portray the quibungo with a large mouth (or sack) on its back, through which it eats (and sometimes vomits) children or animals: 'Kibungo é um bicho meio homem, meio animal, tendo uma cabeça muito grande e também um grande buraco no meio das costas, que se abre quando ele abaixa a cabeça e fecha quando levanta' (Rodrigues, 1935, pp. 300-02; Ramos, 1935, pp. 169-71; Pessoa de Castro, op. cit., pp. 36-37). In several stories in Angola and Brazil, the quibungo is distracted by singing, as is the case in the version collected by Carlos Estermann among Kikongo speakers in Angola, part of the series about a girl mistreated by her father's other woman (Estermann, 1983, pp. 269-70). In other versions collected in Angola and Brazil, singing is used to ask for help, and is directed at the mother or father, both of whom are absent. In Brazil, the story was first published by Sílvio Romero in Contos populares do Brasil, under the title $A$ madrasta ('The stepmother'). Camara Cascudo, in his collection Contos  
tradicionais do Brasil, includes the version $A$ menina enterrada viva ('The girl buried alive'). In Serões da mãe preta, Juvenal Tavares records As três maçãzinhas de ouro ('The three golden apples'), collected in the State of Pará (Tavares, 1897, pp. 72-79). We have found five published versions from the Bantu tradition, two collected in Kikongo, by António Fonseca (1985, pp. 107-11; 1996, pp. 79-81), and three in Kimbundu - two by Óscar Ribas (1979, pp. 51-57; 1989, pp. 55-60) and one by Carlos Estermann (op. cit., pp. 269-70).