'I Have A Thokolosi For Sale'
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
If they do and your corpse agrees to obey them, you will probably become a bricklayer or farmworker doing the night shift at a stranger's company. You are also likely to have tens of "customers" clamouring for you. You only need to see the consistent manner and the number of times in which 'traditional' healers are advertising their trades to appreciate your chance of becoming a thokolosi.
A creature of immense strength, it is said that the thokolosi will do its master's bidding - be it to help around the house, mould bricks or help in the field. If the thokolosi was not popular in Botswana before, it has in the last few years become as popular as magwinya or fatcakes says Dr Imrani who regularly advertises his business in the newspapers. Dr Imrani, who also works with a lady acquaintance, Mama Aisha says he sells the thokolosi. Indeed he advertises the sale of the thokolosi as "short boys and rats to find good life". He also says he provides medicine to help enlarge men's penises: "enlargements from 10-25 centimetres within a day, make it strong and powerful including long-lasting erection." The man claims he can even bring back a lost spouse: " divorced? Bring back your lost love forever," he says in the advert.
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