The Stinky Shadow: An African Folktale about Anger and RedemptionWhat If Your Bad Choices Created a Monster? Pouweri named it the Stinky Shadow, but it was more than a shadow. The Stinky Shadow now filled a quarter of the room, a pulsating, oily smear against the darkness. The Stinky Shadow became a wisp, then a faint stain on the air, and then, finally, nothing. And he knows, with a certainty that runs to his bones, that he must never again provide a home for the Stinky Shadow.