fly swatter

I was recently at the house of some new friends here in Kenya and there were many flies inside the house.  As we were swatting the flies away, I mentioned to the family that we have plastic "fly swatters" in the U.S. that we get some satisfaction from.  The owner of the house said "oh, we've got those" and he reached over and pulled out a fresh cow's tail which he proceeded to start killing flies with.