Author: Andrew Salomon
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1415205949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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When Richard Nevis quit the rat race, being pursued to the Owl House in Nieu Bethesda by an assassin with a books fetish was not what he had in mind. The trouble started while Richard was volunteering at a shelter for mistreated tokoloshes. There he befriended Lun, one of these often misunderstood creatures. But Richard and Lun come to the unwelcome a_ ention of both a brutal villain and Cape Town’s most dangerous criminal mastermind. Teaming up with a potent duo of midwives, who are members of a secret order equally adept at delivering infants and performing martial arts, Richard and Lun have to race across the Karoo in a quest to open an ancient metal box to stay alive. Delightfully entertaining and funny, Tokoloshe Song is Andrew Salomon’s fantasy debut.
Author: Masego Lehihi
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479715948
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Once upon a time, in the dusty village of Dumengamanga, was an old tale of old ...that spoke of scary things that made little people not sleep at night.
Author: S. D. Tucker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909488106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Who, these days, still believes in goblins? Well surprisingly, millions of people do, right the way across the countries of southern Africa, where such creatures are known as tokoloshes. Little known in the West, these entities - hairy little men with gigantic magical penises and the ability to turn themselves invisible through the aid of an enchanted pebble - are a matter of everyday belief in nations such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Lesotho. In this, the first ever full-length book to be published upon the topic in the West, the consequences of this bizarre belief are explored in immense detail. It is not just that poltergeist-hauntings and UFO-sightings are blamed upon the activities of this nefarious little imp; so are everyday misfortunes such as a person's lack of success in love or business. Rather more outlandishly, tokoloshes are also held responsible for supposedly raping innocent women in their beds at night and then impregnating them with goblin-children; court cases have arisen in which people have been accused of murdering such unfortunate infants whilst under the genuine impression that they were evil tokoloshe-babies. But this is not all - tokoloshes have also been linked with witchcraft, zombies, paranormal stone-showers, murder, ancient Trickster-gods, sightings of unknown animals and outbreaks of mass hysteria. In no other book can you read about topics as diverse and strange as haunted toilets, killer one-eyed Cyclops-men made from porridge, severed penises being used as magical batteries and a deformed baby goat born with the head of Homer Simpson. All this, and the full uncensored tale of the man who claimed to have been molested in the night by a big gay hippo-monster ... Lavishly illustrated and all fully-referenced, this book is not only filled with dozens of unusual, amusing and hitherto-unexamined real-life stories, it also tries to place prevailing contemporary southern African belief in the tokoloshe into some kind of plausible social context. The tokoloshe may not be a genuinely real creature, but it certainly occupies a position of social reality in the minds of those who believe in it - with truly wide-ranging and often unexpected consequences.
Author: Rachel Zadok
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330444309
Category :
Languages : nl
Pages : 340
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Tijdens de roerige nadagen van het apartheidsbewind is een klein meisje op een afgelegen boerderij in Noord-Transvaal er getuige van hoe haar moeder na het vertrek van haar man ten onder gaat aan depressie en waanzin.
Author: Pieter Scholtz
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN: 9781868729708
Category : Animals, Mythical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Fantasy tales of the magical naughty sprite known as Tokoloshe.
Author: Andrew Salomon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781415205952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Penny Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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This book tells stories about many strange characters like witches, witchdoctors, mediums, diviners, mystics, ghosts, ogres, mermen and mermaids, human beings who claim to be able to change into wild animals, wild animlas possessed by strange wisdom or spirits. Here are the myths of the mountains, the rivers, waterfalls and forests; the wonderful dreams of many people whose minds have groped in the dark in search of a tiny light to illuminate the immensity of space and the baffling riddles of the universe.
Author: Mo Hayder
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802145178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2009.
Author: Enoch Angus Monkwe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Contains abstracts of missiological contributions, book reviews, and articles.
