This is an ancient Sheikah legend…

Long ago, in the days before the Hero of Time in the town of Kakariko, there lived a man named Bongo-Bongo. Bongo-Bongo was a rich man who had everything one could ask for, yet he was unhappy because his greedy heart was never satisfied, even with all his wealth and power. And so the lonely miser grew greedy for the one thing that he could never have due to his cruel nature: the love of the wise and beautiful owner of the potions shop, Anjea.

Bongo-Bongo tried to catch her attention every way he knew how: he flaunted his wealth and bragged about his power and made everyone in the town miserable with his preening, but still she would pay him no attention. He visited her shop every day, paying her compliments and giving her extravagant gifts, but Anjea saw through his flattery and dismissed his false vows of love as if they were no more than cucco feathers in the wind, saying, "I am to you as one of the many jewels you brag of, something beautiful to be looked at and hoarded jealously. If you were to win me you would only be satisfied a moment before looking for more lovely jewels. Such a fleeting love is not meant for a woman of flesh and blood, it could only satisfy a cold and useless rock."

But the more she refused him the more he lusted after her, and as his frustration with her grew, so did his cruelty towards others. Bongo-Bongo continued to pursue her and when he asked again for her hand in marriage, she answered "I see the true self that you try to hide from me in the way you treat others, and I know well that the true measure of a man is how he treats those from whom he has nothing to gain." Stinging from her continued rejections, Bongo-Bongo's impatience soon turned to anger, and with his great wealth he bought every building in the town, threatening to close her shop and evict her family should she refuse him. But still she would not give in, and shaming him with her mocking reply, said "If this is the love you offer I'd rather have your eternal scorn, just as you have mine."

Unable to earn her love with his cruel tactics, Bongo-Bongo decided to go to her with a clever ruse. He went to her and offered her all of his money and power if only she would marry him, convinced that she would not want to marry a penniless man but would be so moved by his feigned sacrifice that she would agree to marry him without making him keep his promise. But the wise woman saw through his empty words and told him that, although she had no need for his wealth, he should return when he had given all of it to the poor and then they would be married. Bongo-Bongo anguished for many days over what to do; torn between his love of money and his love for Anjea. However, in the end he could not part with his beloved riches and returned to her shop in despair. He begged her to tell him why she would not marry him, to which she replied simply, "Do not come to me again until you understand the truth about yourself; then you will know why I cannot marry you as you are."

Priding himself on his wealth and power, yet blind to the evil in his heart, he could not understand her words and, his pride hurt, he grew desperate to learn the reason behind her constant refusals. Bongo-Bongo knew of the Sheikah treasure that gave one the ability to see the truth, and so he formed a plan to steal the treasure and use it to see the truth about himself that Anjea insisted he was ignorant of. So under the cover of night Bongo-Bongo snuck into the place where the treasure was hidden and stole it. The next morning, the Sheikah discovered the theft and, furious at the loss of their treasure, searched high and low for the thief, but Bongo-Bongo had already fled to the Water Temple to complete his plan.

In those days it was well known that in the Water Temple there was a chamber of trials which only the Zora royalty were allowed to enter. None but the Zora royalty knew what was in the chamber, and each king and queen went in only once in order to be tested before ascending to the throne. The only clue to what lay inside was given in the inscription outside the chamber which read:

"Within you find the Deepest Pool,

It is not kind, nor suffers Fools

Succeed and earn the right to Rule

But should you fail thy fate be Cruel

Prepare well, Ruler:

For 'tis within Thyself you duel."

Most of the Zora royals emerged worn but unscathed after many days of struggle with whatever lay within the chamber, but some emerged changed and were killed so that their reign would not bring destruction to the Zoras. Bongo-Bongo's obsession with what Anjea's words meant had so twisted his heart that, having heard the rumors of this chamber, he waited until nightfall, killed the temple guards, and snuck into the sacred chamber.

Inside he found a long reflecting pool and, using the stolen Eye of Truth, gazed deep within it. With the Eye of Truth he saw the darkness in his heart in its true form and was appalled, for it took the form of a great and terrible beast which began to attack him with a greedy fervor for blood. He struggled briefly with the beast but soon succumbed, and was transformed into the form of his evil. By now the dead guards had been discovered and many Zora warriors had gathered outside the door to await the emergence of the one who had defiled their temple. When the horrible beast emerged, full of rage and malice, a great battle ensued. The Zora warriors fought bravely but, unable to kill the beast, they were sacrificed to its terrible wrath and it escaped.

Seeking revenge upon Anjea, who he blamed for his transformation, Bongo-Bongo returned to Kakariko Village and went on a rampage, slaughtering any in his path. The townspeople fled and, after a fierce battle with the Sheikah warriors led by the Great Sage Impa, the creature was subdued and Bongo-Bongo was executed for his many crimes. There was a brief time of peace, but the hatred and vengeance that drove Bongo-Bongo's spirit would not let him rest, and misfortune soon befell Kakariko in the form of drought and plague and the mysterious restless dead. Fires sprang up from nowhere, and all in Kakariko became afraid of the shadows which writhed and spread and sometimes devoured as though they were alive.

Finally, the Great Sage Impa went down into the Temple of the Dead to put an end to the hauntings of the beast and with her great power and magic she sealed its restless spirit deep within the well where Bongo-Bongo's house once stood. And there his restless spirit waits, his hatred ever growing in the darkness of his prison…

The ills wrought by the spirit ceased and all was well in Kakariko, though the Sheikah's treasure was never recovered. Some say that Anjea, regretful at what had befallen Bongo-Bongo because of her words and fearing the evil that the Eye of Truth could work again in the wrong hands, hid the treasure somewhere in Kakariko Village. But that is nothing more than the whisperings of Gossip Stones…