Tokoloshis Creatures

Tokoloshis-

Here is another Creature from southern Africa that I found while 

Tokoloshis Creature

doing my last post one the Abatwas Tiny Creature of Southern Africa posted 
April 10, 2014 if you curious. These creatures also live in Southern Africa
and there are many of them unlike the Abatwas which are quite rare. There was 658 of these
Tokoloshis last count in Swaziland of Africa. They are very small creatures too are the
Abatwas.  The Tokoloshis standing about knee high to an normal size adult, but
the Abatwas's are even smaller standing at only 1/2 inch tall. Living among the
ants and ant hill all around Africa. I would image even so of the more dangerous
ants like the fire ants too. They are covered in very long hair and they look a bit like small monkey's.
They have eyes that are very narrow and black and small ears aswell. Their hands
and feet are like a monkeys. And also have a very longggggggggggg penis that looks like tail.

Tokoloshis

Hummm so what do you all think about this little creature Eh! hehehehhe.
Well now! These Tokoloshi can be found living in crevices and holes amongst the stones near
a river and in small caves on mountain sides. He/She are very shy and scared of humans and will
stay away from the humans. He has a bad reputation and has alot of enemies. The Tokoloshis only
friend is the lizard who will help him clean his house and they dance together.  These Tokoloshis's are
quite mischievous creatures and do many different tricks to stay live! If things get broken or sweets are
stolen in a homestead on the planes of Africa, then its usually blamed on the Tokoloshi ! The danger lies in witches or wizards getting a hold of one of these creatures, because they tend to turn them into their slave and use them for their evil deeds. These Tokoloshi people can also make themselves invisible and will send one of their own into huts to harm people in their sleep or even to poison their foo. Some witches will kill these tiny creatures if they can get a hold of one and then will kill the tokoloshi and then see the tiny body fat as a protective medicine. It is said that many people in Africa would put their beds on bricks or sticks so that the tokoloshi couldn't can't them in their sleep. It might be a good idea when yu check into your hotel in Swazjiland to ask if they can give yu a couple of bricks.. just to be safe!

The Tokoloshis Creatures 

Tokoloshi likes children though, they are the only ones he can trust and he will appear before them. They will entice human children to play with them, by preparing a delicious feast and they will all have a party. Note: if
any of the children's parents sneak up through to watch, the tokoloshis will put a magic stone into his mouth and disappear! They are also very scared of dogs, mousetraps and chameleons too.
Cows and goats milk, fresh are some of their favourite food and he will try to sneak into cattle kraal to drink as much as he/she can. When a farmer realises his cows are running out of milk he will know it is the tokoloshis fault and summon a sangoma.
A spell will be cast and if the Tokoloshi walks into it he will became paralyzed and visible, but if you shout 'Hey, I see the tokoloshi!' then the spell will be broken and he becomes invisible again.When you are visiting Swaziland keep a sharp look out when you sit on a stone near the river that you haven't disturbed a tokoloshis home.. and remember the advice about the bricks!

Note I found this post just by chance that had to do with these creatures the TAKOLOSHIS- Its called 
Witchcraft legalised in Zimbabwe-It seems that in Zimbabwe where witchcraft and wizardry was ban for about 107years has just been legal again after all those years in Zimbabwe. It is said to be a surreal Time in Zimbabwe for the people. But it seems that their President Robert Mugabe's new legislation is applied humanely then only good witches will find any solace in it, as the act prohibits the practice of witchcraft by anyone who uses their supernatural powers to harm others. The 1899 prohibition which made it illegal to accuse anyone of being a witch or a wizard was perhaps a wise colonial decree because to this day throughout Sub-Saharan African people accused of being witches are killed unpleasantly in traditional ceremonies which bypass national laws. Among the most recent recorded mass burning of witches were  
those organised by Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who killed scores of women D and their children D on public bonfires after tapping into deeply held tribal beliefs about witchcraft. In reality,
the victims tended to be women who had refused Savimbi's sexual advances.But with inflation not at 
1200% and a loaf of bread costing more that one million Zimbabwean dollars, some agree that you need a bit of magic to keep body and soul together. 
Professor Gordon Chavunduka, a former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Zimbabwe and Chairman of the 50,000-strong Zimbabwe National Traditonal Healers' Association, were delighted at Mugabe's thumbs-up to Wizardry. OWitchcraft and Tokoloshe's are making a comeback, he said.
Tokoloshes, familiar to anyone living in Sounthern Africa, may stretch the imagination of even JK Rowling devotees, but Google has nearly 20,000 entries devoted to these tiny demons who cause  
havoc out of all proportion to their tiny size. First-time visitors to the regions are often puzzled by the fact that so many Africans have their beds raised on high piles of bricks to prevent Tokoloshes getting into their beds with them. Women have a particularly good reason to FEAR THE TOKOLOSHES AS SLEEPING PARTNERS IN AFRICA!
Have I got your attention! Cool and very interesting and very REAL! Eh!
These creatures arrive naked in the dead of night, though sometimes covered by a cloak which makes them invisible, and try to impregnate the Aftrican women or any visitors too! 
The Vendors of muti-traditional medicine all over Southern Aftrica sell and advertise products for 
protection against these TOKOLOSHIS CREATURES .
I found that even to day from different researcher's, one being that of Theodore Petrus who lectures on the trditional magic and superstions that have always formed around an integral part of Southern African Indigenous folktales, in which the tokoloshe is a common and significant charater in Africa. And is believed to part of their witchcraft, perpetuated throughout their myth and stories passed on from one generation to and other.  Which is widespread among most if not all African communities. If is mostly in the rural areas' but it  don't stop there. its just because of less access to tecnolgy and the modernized . And more focuse on the supernatural explanations for illnesse and mistortures.
Even today many rural and urban people of African still believe in the power of these mischievous and sometimes evil spirits. It is said that in the Zimbabwean newspaper some believe that the counselors at AlDS workshops have agreed that the evil spirits Tokoloshes have probably spread the Hiv virus by sexually abusing women during the night. Like I had said early in my post the people believe that these nasty creatures attack women in their sleep and that is why they have the beds up on bricks  and have extrordinarly long penis slung over the shoulder from climbing up and getting under the sheet beside the women of africa.

Well that is the Tokoloshis of Southern Africa which is very much alive today! I hope your found

this post interesting.. I hope to find more interesting true and fun stories to come..

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Jenny Greenteeth the Water Fairy

Jenny Greenteeth the Water Fairy-
Jenny Greenteeth is a well known figure that is part of the English folklore. 

Jenny Greenteeth Fairy

The tradition says it lived in Yorkshire, and that it was a very bad spirit of rivers.

As I told you I would do a post On Jenny Greenteeth the Fairy  in my Water Fairies around 
the World. The story tells that sometime ago there was a family with a mother, father, son, daughter
and a grandmother who was crazy. The mother and children were engaged to collect the 
vegetables from the fields, the father took care of the wood, traps and collecting any prey to 
take to the water from the well and the grandmother had the task of tidying up the house 
and cooking. During the summer the family could get along without much trouble, but in the 
winter the food was scarce and all went hungry. And that is the time when the family had their problems
between each other. 

Jenny Greenteeth Fairy

One day the son asked why it was not possible to fish from the river. That way they would have

more food and a that moment his grandmother slapped him across his face and replied that he was
crazy and that nobody ever went into the river because of Jenny Greenteeth. 
So the boy asked who this Jenny Greenteeth was and his grandmother laughed at the 
ignorance of her grandson and told him it was a creature that lived in the lake. This creature that would
seize anyone that would be looking near the lake/rivers. Once caught by the evil creature, you are killed and
not always completely dead are eaten alive to the bone. The young boy just laughed and denigrated his 
grandmother, how is even more angry and told him go be careful because Jenny Greenteeth was ready 
at all times. Its skin was completely green, long hair, razor-sharp teeth and very large eyes. It's favorites

Jenny Greenteeth Fairy 

preys were the young people and children because more tender and tasty to eat
Well course the boy paid no attention to what his grandmother had told him, partly because they they
all thought she was crazy too.And also as the winter continued to advance the food was being getting 
to get very scarce and all was getting very hungry, he decided to take care of everything himself. So he 

took a net and went to the river in order to catch some fish. He remained for sometime on the shoreline,
but strangely did not see any fish pass so while he was searching the waters for fish he saw one stranded in 
some green algae. He tried to take a hold of the piece of green algae, but the more he pulled it out of the water, it seemed to anchored to the seabed, so he pulled harder and harder until he managed  to detach the algae and the fish escaped. He looked at his hands and noticed that the algae 
was very strange looking. He had a better look at the algae and he discovered that there was no algae at all

Jenny Greenteeth Fairy

that was around his hands and arms, but long green arms with long nails and that they were attached to a body underwater. He also saw a grinning  face and was pulled into the river where he drowned... So He should have listened to his crazy Grandmother
and her tales.Eh!
This is the legend Jenny Greenteeth, an evil that drives especially children into the water to drown,
where they are eaten. Kinda like Hansel and Gretel story in the states . This legend I found is from England, Britain and the Creature Jenny Greenteeth has a couple other names; Ginny, Jenny Wicken o'Nell & Peg. Still today mother tell their children the story of Jenny Greenteeth to persuade them to stay away from rivers in England.



'If your path takes you near a riverbed or across a stream, you'd best look out for Jenny Greenteeth. A water witch of greenish tinge with frog-like, yellow as big as two lamps, Jenny dwells beneath the river's suface, darting like a fish across the mudding bottoms, and feeding upon the misfortunate who stumble and drown in her waters.'  

I did find there was a legend in Ireland and Germany about the Jenny Greenteeth Fairy. Although her name

Irish Legend of the deadly
Jenny Greenteeth Fairy

and her appearance is a bit different, the legend seems very similar. In these to countries Ireland and Germany the Greenteeth Fairy will appear as a beautiful woman in a white gown and is called respectively Bean-Fionn. And Die Weisse Frau. Although her visage is change she is still the same dreaded Jenny Greenteeth, that haunts the river banks and drags her victims to their untimely deaths. 

Jenny Green mermaid Fairy 

I tried to find the origins of what happen to the spirit of the woman that change her soul to the dark side of evil, but it was a bit tricky to find. But I think I have found it. Of all the Moral Jenny Greenteeth stories, it is said to stay away from rivers and lakes, and it is thought that the original girl/woman was the imagined creation of mothers who wanted to warn their children away from the waters edge with frightening tales. Her stories may have also derived from duckweed, an aqueous plant that wraps its tendrils around one's leg and traps them underwater. 
I think it just depends where you read the legend. In so places the stories or most are described and painted

Jenny Green Water Fairy

as a morbid creature such as unredeemed tones of dark greens and red. And Nasty sharp teeth. Other tales will show the Greenteeth Fairy as somewhat tender - albeit mislleading kinda Jenny Green Fairy . as side to the Greentooth Woman. In these accounts she uses her long bony arms to emabrace her victims stroking them with her sharp fingernails until they fall into a deep sleep where upon she devours them. It is said that some Sailors of the past called the Jenny Greenteeth of the Ocean- The Sea Hag and believed that she sang as she got closer to her victims.

Maybe the Venal  Spirit
Young girl named jenny who drowned
in 1870 near the rivers of Birmingham England 

Jenny Greenteeth was a water fairy and was also associated with Lancashire area.  Ok my dears I think I found the origins In England at least... or this is as close as I am going to get... Jenny was overwhelmingly as a  Lancashire bogie, but there are some referees form further afield that might suggest she once had a wider kingdom. In 1870 weed in Birmingham was sometimes called 'Jenny' or Jenny Greenteeth'  the wording is ambiguous. There is also an east Riding legend about a young girl who drowned in that are who was called Jenny that sounds as if it may be Jenny Greenteeth or a close cousin dwells in the rivers of parts of England. 
Well I really don't know if Jenny the Water fairy of the river is a legend made up to keep children away or was actually a legend of a spirit of a young girl .. I couldn't find the lot on the legend, but that's how these legends go. Its really how much you believe.. I hope you found this one interesting I sure did..

I hope to find more interesting tales and stories

Before I left this post I did find a few images of what the Russian and 

German folklore call their Greenteeth Fairy and that happens to be the 

BABA YAGA WITCH

BABA YAGA WITCH

BABA YAGA WITCH

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Water Faires around the World

Water Faires around the World

Water Fairy

 I have done many different fairies as of date. And there's still many fairies, that I have yet to find to write about for yu! This includes the beautiful Water Fairies. These fairies are usually depicted as beautiful
blue, white or transparent fairies with long flowing hair reminiscent of seaweed. However whilst all fairies
 then to be mischievous and the water fairies can be sometimes positively cruel. They have been known
to lure ships into dangerous seas and innocent men to a watery grave.
In the Greek lore, the fairies there is what they would call the Greek Siren. In the ancient times of the seas
were extremely dangerous and the life of a sailor or fisherman was a very lonely and hazardous one.
Water fairies are also often vain and enjoyed looking at their reflection in the water.
In some traditions they like to leave the water to visit local humans, sometimes to join in a party, at others
to ensnare a new victim. It is said that they can be recognised by their clothing which will always
remain damp.
Then there are the sea and river fairies of the Celtic.
Celtic Myth and folklore especially that of Ireland and sometime Scotland is very rich with supernatural
creatures and Fairies and Elves. Many of these are from ancient ancestry of long ago. Some say the the
Celtic Faeries were some of the first fairies and are still lives in some parts of Ireland and Scotland. These fairies are known as the Sidhe. 

Water Fairy

The Sidhe- The name Sidhe pronounced 'shee' refers to not one type of fairy, but to many different varieties of fairies. They are quite unlike our modern concept of a fairy. Although they vary considerably in appearance, the Sidhe are in general more like Tolkien elves than the Tinkerbell. It is said that the Sidhe are

Water Fairy

descended form the ancient race of Tuatha De Danann. These were the peoples of the Goddesses Danu who inhabited Ireland before the coming of man - the Gaels  sons of Mil, also known as the Milesians. They brought to Ireland four great treasures. These four great treasures were; 1.) The Dagda's Cauldron. 2.) The Spear of Lugh 3.) The Stone of Fal 4.) The Sword of Nuada. It was said in the legend of the Gaels, that they battled the Tuatha De Dann and forced them to retreat underground where they are believed to live in  hollowed out hills. The Sidhe are sometimes referred to as the people of the mounds. The Sidhe are also associated with metalwork and smithcraft as well as being the protectors of the hills and forests of Ireland. The Sidhe have various geographic tribes and are usually organised like an aristocratic court with a local king or queen.

Water Fairy 

There are many different types of the Fairy Sidhe with many shapes, sizes and powers too!
These include the daoine sidhe or daoine beaga as with so many of the Celtic Fae, they were rarely the diminutive winged creatures we imagine as fairies today.
Perhaps the most well known were the Welsh Gwragedd Annwn, of the Lake Maidens. Unlike many of the water fairies these were generally benevolent to humans. Another interesting variety of water fairy is the
Asrai. These are delicate creatures that can only exit in the water. If they are exposed to the air-for example when caught in a fishing net-the Asrai fairy will turn into a pool of water and slip away. Its easy to imagine a fisherman seeing something glittering beneath the surface of the water, only to find nothing there when the net is pulled up. Water fairies have also been associated with the changeling legend, which is the stealing of human children and taking them into the depths of the forests for their own.
As it goes for Water Fairies around the World, every body of water, from the smallest stream to the 
vast ocean, it has its own protective fairy, living below the surface being either good Fae or not so nice Fae. 
In Wales, fairy maidens called the Gwragedd Annwn dwell beneath the lakes, are exceedingly beautiful and occasional will venture ashore to take a male human lovers and husband to either, live on land and lake or to

Water Fairy

live under the lake. One such Lady of the Lake was called Vivienne or Nimue which appeared in the stories of King Arthur - Vivienne of the Lake had supplied King Arthur with his Excalibur the magical sword form the Other -world. The sea is as densely populated with fairies as any other place on Earth. In it s depths dwell mermaids and mermen, nymphs and other types of fairy creatures. 
These water spirits can control the weather and the water, raise storms, which can also have the power to cause shipwrecks or keep a ship safe too. In ancient times, it was the practice to placate the spirits of the sea with a sacrifice before setting out on a long voyage out to sea. Like all sea fairies they are personified as lovely and seductive also sometimes very treacherous too.These water spirit's can be either the well known mermaids which origins is the goddesses who rose from the sea, like Venus/ Aphrodite or even the fish tailed Atargatis and Derceto. The sea is associated with the Great Mother Goddesses whose names include Maia, Mary, Mara, Marian, Maria and Miriam; All these names are derived from a root word from the sea. 
Sea goddesses are usually also goddesses of love and the moon, drawing in the tides, rivers,

Jenny Greenteeth 

dew, fog, mists, and the flow of human life thru any type of water. Ancient mariners would have 

Jenny Greenteeth

a tattoo of a star to honour the Goddesses Benus as they steered by her Star. She was also the prototype of the huge sail ships figureheads. Some water fairies are unfriendly and very dangerous too.
Jenny Greenteeth lives in the River Ribble in Northern England. When green weeds are waving in the flowing waters, it is a sign that Peggy is lurking beneath the surface, ready to take another victim. She will haunt the stepping stones near Brungerley and every seven years she will claim a human life by grabbing some helpless
traveller and pull him beneath the water to drown him. Children are warned not to go near the water where this very unfriendly and dangerous fairy named Jenny Greenteeth lives, or if they do she will take them too.
Jenny Greenteeth is only one such fairy. There is much more to here story.. Which I do plan on doing more on her tale so please keep a look out for her post...Eh! hheheh. Another one is Peg Prowler who loves to haunt the River Tees. She is also green with long hair and sharp teeth too. If anyone wades anywhere near the water she will pull on their ankles then drags them down to their deaths. Peg O' Nell also demands the sacrifice of a life every seven years and will be satisfied with a small animal or even a bird, though if this is not offered she will! take a human life whether it be a child or adult human.
The Powers of Water

Water Fairy 

Water has often been considered to be actual living thing, or certainly to have the power of sustaining,bestowing and even restoring life as we know it. As well as being capable of taking it away too! Every ancient society honoring springs, water wells and water sources as sacred. The Celts and other sacrificed 
treasures of the lakes and river spirits. Rivers were worshiped by the Druids and were believed to each have 
their resident water spirits that required sacrifices to be made to them. The River Tweed is said to demand a 
yearly sacrifice, but the Till is more voracious. This is a poem of the River Tweed; 
Tweed says to Till,
'What gars ye Tin sae still?
Says Till to Tweed," 
'Though ye run Wi' speed, and I Tin slaw,
Whaurye droon ae man,

I droon twa'

Water Fairy 

Just as water takes the form of whatever it is poured into, the water faeries have the power to alter their shape to what ever shape they choose. If you anger them by polluting their water, they may appear as a hideous green toothed hags to drench you with a sudden storm, or even drown you beneath the crashing waves of either the ranging rivers or oceans . If they take a liking to you, they might appear as gorgeous golden haired youths or maids, wooing you with sweet fairy music. A 'protoype of water fairies is the Greek sea god Proteus , known as the Old Man of the Sea who is the most masterful at shapeshifter of all Nature. You may 
wonder why? Well its because he is able to assume any shape he desires. Most water fairies are said to be 

Water Fairy

shapeshifters, Perhaps because of the fluid and changeable nature of water itself, which is only given shape by the vessel that it holds it. Another item that Water is ruled by along with the water fairy is the moon. which pulls the ebb and flows of the tides and many water fairies are said to appear by moonlight. Under the full moon is the best time to contact them or even see them from a far. Our bodies too respond to the moons tides, as they are mainly made up of water too. We are influenced by the moons tides almost as much as are fairy friends. Lastly Water has healing powers;especially water that flows east to west is empowered by the rising sun at the vernal Equinox, May Day and Midsummer. Any stream that runs north to south has magick properties as does the place where the two streams meet, these were often the places for magic and otherworlds made contact. Pools and lakes are magick entrances to the other -world. Where three streams meet was always considered to be a especially potent place of magick where people would gather to drink the water as it would have strong magick properties

I hope that You all Enjoyed my post 

on the Water Fairies Around the World 

I am going to show some of the variety of water fairies 

that I found in this post at the end here 

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