Tokoloshe in Zimbabwe is large, covered in fur with long claws and a bone, extending all the way down from the top of the skull. It also has red eyes, stinks, and speaks in a hoarse voice. The fear of them is such that many people do not sleep on the floor and raise the bed by placing bricks under the legs. This allows them to see a person hiding under the bed before they retire. There is a good reason to worry about Tokoloshe - it claims that they will climb to the bed with the residents, bite the toes of a sleeping man, and they are as evil as Tokoloshe way with a woman... mean creatures really! Some people won't even mention the name of Tokoloshe because they are afraid to summon this very unpopular guest. One person can summon damage to another person, and if this happens, then Nyanga - Witch Doctor - can intervene and chase evil people. Although only the victim and the culprit who handles it can see Tokoloshe, this creature is clearly visible to children and a friendship can be formed between the two. They generally don't hurt children - sometimes this is an invisible playmate in the African version, is it common to so many children from all over the world?
The folklore of Zimbabwe tells the story of a beautiful girl bathing in a river in the eastern highlands of Manika province every day. Tokoloshe living in the water fell in love with her, and one day she was taking a bath of her "recommended love." Of course, she was frightened and quickly went home to her boyfriend, who quickly made her "suggestions" and used her nine bracelets as a wedding dress. The next day, when she went to take a bath, she wore them. When it saw them, he became very angry, closed her, cut his arm with a bracelet and put it in the river. Incredibly, in the early 1940s, a prospector named Captain Valentin discovered the wreckage of the human arm and the nine bracelets buried on the riverbank and sent it to it in 1953. Harare Museum... It obviously still lives there.
A few stories about Tokoloshe were recently collected in Zimbabwe:
In 1999, a woman living in the second largest city of Bulawayo summoned a witch doctor to drive her house, thinking that her maid had contacted Toxos and asked it to harm her employer. The woman is of Portuguese descent and has grown up in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The witch doctor got rid of it, the maid fell ill and left the employer's service...
That year, Tokoloshes was very busy because a member of Congress - ironically the security officer responsible for President Robert Mugabe - accused a disgruntled employee of sending a instead of three Toksos Attack him...
In the same year [Zimbabwe apparently had overpopulated Tokoloshe], six teachers from the same school in Gurvuve village in central Zimbabwe resigned because they claimed that a boys' school had summoned Tokoloshe to suppress them so that teachers could "own". His way "to sleep with them. Can you really see any self-respecting Tokoloshe endure this?"
My family is not immune to Tokoloshe. One night, my eight-year-old brother [Brian] and his Boy Scouts team camped in the Matopos area. These little boys are doing what the little boy is best at all night - sitting around the stove and sharing the horror story of "Tokuso". Poor Brian was the youngest cub and found it difficult to fall asleep when he slept in his little tent. So when he heard a hoarse voice and felt something scratching on his sleeping bag, the poor boy rushed out of the tent in horror... So the hoarse voice changed It became a laugh!
He forgave his best friend, he used a dead branch on a tree to grab his sheets! The little boy may be cruel!
Orignal From: African Toxos
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