Yeah I guess thats what I was thinkning when I though about gremlins, just frogot about gnomes Aren't brownies like gnomes? Brownie the myth creature, not the oh so sweet, taste bud tantalizing, delectable treat. Anyways that thing we'll probably be lookinf for revenge. Keep that bar by your bed. It might show up with pals.

We go for victory!

OMG Taw someone sent a Tokoloshe to get you!
(sw might just know what I'm on about)

its a..how do I explain...a monster thingy that is bad? I know what it is but I cant explain it not in english at least

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Is that the thingy thats in the movie Stephen Kings Cat Eye (I think thats the name). Anyway, its a little gremlin like thing that "steals" your breath

A tokoloshe is some wierd short brown hairy monster thing that apparently crawls up your bed and tries to strangle you in your sleep or do other similarly evil things to you. There's some sort of superstition that putting bricks under your bed will help stop the little bugger from climbing up your bed. It's like a South African version of the bogey-man but shorter, designed to scare the crap out of small children.

It liked to travel?

Maybe it was a sending .

Well in the movie, the thing got chased of by a cat. So suggestion....get a very large agressive cat. Dont know if it will work....but u could get a big dog as well

Thats wierd taw. Oh for the person who asked, yes yes i did move out of my house after that I figured I dont wanna die for a house so I moved away a month afterwards. I do believe theres things like that going on and while most times people think its superstitions. Superstitions have to come from somewhere dont they? I mean what kind of f***ed up guy sits there and says "im gonna think up an imaginary monster to scare generations and generations of people from now on" . But yeah really I heard this thing where when something runs at you and you collapse like that, you have to hold a knife and grab the pointy end of it and hold it that way for a little while (not to cause bleeding just hold it) and it should stop pestering you. Judging by how many people see these things each day and just how many of these encounters people had just on this forum. I cant help but think there are other forces doing this or maybe a second plane of creatures doing things in this world until us pesky humans come along and annoy them and then they terrify us ****less.

Like for example, like my previous residence, have you ever walked into somewhere? a room or something and even though your house is being heated theres a goodly burst of cold air? And first you think its a draft but ends up nothing is open. I heard thats the most common form of encounter with a phenomenon like that. I remember back then I opened my closet and saw something behind it, nothing I could truly describe, it just seemed to be looking like it was hanging there behind my clothes. Strangely, though there was nothing to truly be scared of I got this massive chill and was like so freaked out I was shaking like a mofo then next few minutes. Then I come back and turn on the light and find absolutely nothing. I also had a big problem with noises, so much so that a girl, well my girlfriend actually moved out because of it. You'd hear things like creaking or sometimes even something like a wooden board breaking. At any given point during the night you can hear something going on, either casual knocking, walking, it was the creepiest place I ever had to stay for a period of time.

PS: I stayed in that house for 6 months trying to figure out what was happening, after I left nearly a year later the house was destroyed by a fire from a loose gas pipe I think.

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Taw - A sending is a sort of evil spirit from Norse mythology. They could be set upon people, and could take a variety of forms, such as a cat that sits on your chest and gets heavier and heavier until you suffocate. That is one of the most classic forms mentioned.

As I said, I don't doubt that you are serious, but it's the sort of thing that you'd have to experience to believe fully. You can accept someone at their word, but it's too abstract and unusual to fully believe in, at least for me.

Taw...here is a little bit about your "visitor"


Tokoloshe or Tikoloshe. From the Xhosa word uthikoloshe.

The tokoloshe is a short, hairy, dwarf-like creature from Bantu folklore. It is a mischievous and evil spirit that can become invisible by swallowing a pebble. Tokoloshes are called upon by malevolent people to cause trouble for others. At it’s least harmful a tokoloshe can be used to scare children, but it’s power extends to causing illness and even death upon the victim.

The way to get rid of him is to call in the n’anga or witch-doctor who has the power to banish him from the area.

It seems incredible to most of us that there could be any truth in the legend of the tokoloshe or the power of the witch-doctor. But they do exist in some parts of Africa where superstition and legend is very much alive and well.

How many of us won’t walk under a ladder or touch wood in case something bad happens? Is that any less ridiculous? We should never underestimate the power of the mind.


little bit more...to long to post

Probably because you're so inherently evil Taw. I mean there'd have to be a "Post Peter Secchi Support Group" somewhere in Britain, maybe they're conspiring against you.

All of this supernatural stuff has got me on a research frenzy. Check out this link.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/moth.html The mothman story has so much evidence to back it up and so many credible witnesses. I think it's true.

It's an axe, I use it to...hack at people

Edited by - fish4198 on 4/19/2004 2:13:22 AM

Some nights behind my house i can hear hammering, but no-one is out there.

Are there no leprechaun equivalents in England? Interesting story from Leo on the Xhosa superstition. Out in the American West, there are equivalents as well, the Cheyenne refer to that same kind of thing as a "pitukupf." Pitukupf
are older than dirt, been around longer than even the Sun and Sky.

Interesting how little short humanoid creatures always seem to have a mystical role in the legends/beliefs of differing cultures.