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Date of upload: Jun 11, 2023 ^^
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Thanks for covering the Tokoloshe. I'm South African so I've been accustomed to seeing beds on bricks or paint tins, although that was mostly in my youth. I think it is less likely to happen in urban areas now.
The first time I heard about the Tokoloshe was when I was about 10 years old. We lived on a farm and one of our workers claimed he had been walking through the veld the previous night when a Tokoloshe chased him. He ran as fast as he could and the Tokoloshe got hold of his jacket. Somehow he wriggled out of it and so got away from the Tokoloshe.
For superstitious Africans the Tokoloshe is very real.
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I watched every episode in this channel and have come to appreciate the level-headedness and unbiased approach of the producers. They always view these stories through a lens of health skepticism, providing logic and reasoning, but also respect the stories with a degree of tolerance and face value curiosity. I find this mixture to be very enjoy. Thank you Bedtime Stories!
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I think the Tokoloshe's inability to climb up a bed lifted off the ground is meant to stem from them being dead things, bound to the ground. Sure they can get inside a house but leaving the floor, the bottom, is difficult for them. Though this is also discredited that it can then climb a person and sit on their shoulders quiet high off the ground.
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I remember when I was little (in the 80's), our nanny had her bed's legs stacked on bricks. Having seen this in many black ladies' maid's quarters, I asked her why and she told me it is to keep the Tokoloshe from climbing up her bed's legs.
Imagine her horror when I, as an 8 year old, reminded her that he could just climb up the bricks to climb up the bed! ๐๐๐
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@matchungo8048
10 months ago
As a South African, the tokoloshe doesnโt scare me as much as politicians
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