[Caenxavier]

In elementary school there was this old guy who lived in a house just behind the chain link fence. He was grumpy, hated kids, stereotypical crotchety old coot.

He had this statue in his back yard of a man with a large head sitting down, it was pretty creepy and sort of looked like an old Aztec statue, anyway, we all called him the tikki-tikki man. It was said that if you made the old man angry he would curse you and the tikki-tikki man would try to kill you. He couldn't directly kill you during the day, but at sundown he could rise and walk and if you were near the school he would kill you in some never described horrible way.

We decided to try this out one day by having the most impressionable kid in our group go over the fence. He went over and kicked the tikki man, we all ran off and had a good laugh, the kid was freaking out for the rest of the day. His chair fell over on him, he got nailed in the face with a dodge-ball and got a black eye, and the next day a branch from the old man's tree nearly hit him on the head.

The following weekend a friend and I went into school grounds at sundown, we did some sort of "ritual" we made up to rid our friend of the curse involving some sort of "holy water", garlic and impromptu chanting.

Come Monday the tikki man was gone from the old man's yard. Scarred the piss out of us for a good, long time.