[Magdalen] Tokoloshe - was Explosion in Zimbabwe

[Jay Weigel]

Well, Icelanders, even educated ones, apparently believe in elves, so South
Africa is not alone.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's a creature out of place, comparable to the European imp or brownie,
> which interestingly seems to cover a great deal of mythological territory
> in one economical package.
>
> Belief is widespread in Southern African and not confined to the indigenous
> black population either, as this link explains.
>
> I found this article, although it far exceeded my tolerance for
> Tokoloshe-bosh and is definitely not based on sound research.
>
> http://www.vanhunks.com/tokoloshe1.html
>
> A comment made therein rings true though- as long as there is money to be
> made, people are going to keep promoting this superstition in all its forms
> from mildly amusing to deadly dangerous.
>
> Otherwise, I am afraid that one is left with the inescapable impression
> that my native and adopted lands are both liberally populated with the
> weird, the wacky, the credulous, the avaricious, the deeply disturbed and
> the barking mad.
>
> But there again, SA makes plenty of tourist money out of people who seem to
> accept as fact that the Earth Goddess once turned a giant into stone as
> Table Mountain, "the watcher of the South", to keep the sea dragon from
> coming ashore. Therefore Table Mountain is not just another worn away
> ancient rock among many marching Eastwards inland, but a "thin place" of
> note.
>
> The ancient world was big on keeping the sea in its place, and with global
> warming a reality, we can learn a thing or two from them maybe!!
>
> BTW, the nom de plume of the author "van Hunks" is taken from an old Cape
> Town story to explain the "tablecloth" of cloud that hangs over Table
> Mountain - Old van Hunks, a notorious pirate who retired to Cape Town to
> laugh at the world, goes up the mountain each day to smoke his pipe. One
> day the Devil comes  and challenges him to a duel, van Hunks loses (or
> maybe it doesn't matter) and he vanishes in a puff of smoke, but every year
> they come back to smoke again.
>
> It seems one can draw some parallels with European figures such as goblins,
> brownies, leprechauns and so forth. Jung would have a field day
>
> Sally D
>
>
> On Thursday, 08 December 2016, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sally, what is the Tokoloshe?
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 2:32 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> > oppenheimerjw at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > Well, the majority did not, but the thing is fixed in favor of smaller
> > > population states, all of which are agricultural and -- welll.....
> Let's
> > > just leave it at that.
> > >
> > > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not
> preserved,
> > > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Sal <sally.davies at gmail.com
> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would read this story as a marker of the distress, panic and
> despair
> > > > Zimbabweans are feeling as the Govt tries to "money spin" by
> > introducing
> > > > bond notes instead of the USD. They vividly remember 2008...
> > > >
> > > > We don't have goblins in Africa but belief in the Tokoloshe is very
> > > > persistent. This is a different world hereabouts.
> > > >
> > > > At least it cannot be said that we freely and truly elected a Goblin
> as
> > > > our nations leader.
> > > >
> > > > Sally D in snark mode
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > >
> > > > > On 07 Dec 2016, at 8:14 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> > > > oppenheimerjw at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > It appears that the tinyurl was accidentally made from a
> duplication
> > of
> > > > the
> > > > > URL (and will not work), but the tinyurl below will work!
> > > > >
> > > > > http://tinyurl.com/zeeltbs
> > > > >
> > > > > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > > > > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not
> > > preserved,
> > > > > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> > > > >
> > > > >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net
> > <javascript:;>>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> https://www.sott.net/article/257301-Explosion-in-Zimbabwe-th
> > > > >> at-killed-5-people-was-apparently-the-result-of-a-goblin-
> > > > >> disposal-ceremony-gone-wrong
> > > > >>
> > > > >> or
> > > > >>
> > > > >> http://tinyurl.com/jx4vbqc
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> --
> > > > >> Sibyl Smirl
> > > > >> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> > > > >> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net <javascript:;>
> > > > >>
> > > >
> > >
> >
>