Bad grub! Family eat. Many sick. Cave sleep big sick place. Bad, bad spirits in food.

Bad Grub Make Belly Hurt! Big sickness hit cave folk! Many sleep after eat bad leaf-salad. Bad spirit, Clostridium Botulinum, hide in leaf make cave folk weak. Eight cave folk so weak, need go healing cave. Leaf-salad made in cave, not fire-cooked. Fire kill bad spirits, make food safe. This happen moon two moons ago, but wise shaman say tell story now so no more sick bellies. Thirty-one cave folk eat bad salad, but only eight go healing cave. Shaman say bad spirit make muscle sleepy, hard breathe, hard see. Bad spirit in dirt, so wash leaf good! Cook leaf with fire! No eat leaf-salad raw! Shaman say, "Fire good! Fire kill bad spirits! No sick belly if use fire!" Eyewitness: Oog, mammoth hunter: "Me see friend fall down after eat leaf. Friend no move, eyes sleepy." Eyewitness: Zog, fire keeper: "Me smell bad leaf-salad. Me say no eat, but no one listen." Official Quote: Gronk, Big Chief of Cave: "Me sad for sick cave folk. Me tell everyone listen to shaman. Cook food with fire! No eat raw leaf!" Story by Rok from Caveman Talk Fire, on the scene.