Terror Of The Tokoloshe
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Terror Of The Tokoloshe
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Author : S. D. Tucker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-06
Terror Of The Tokoloshe written by S. D. Tucker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06 with History categories.
Who, these days, still believes in goblins? Well surprisingly, millions of people do, right the way across the countries of southern Africa, where such creatures are known as tokoloshes. Little known in the West, these entities - hairy little men with gigantic magical penises and the ability to turn themselves invisible through the aid of an enchanted pebble - are a matter of everyday belief in nations such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Lesotho. In this, the first ever full-length book to be published upon the topic in the West, the consequences of this bizarre belief are explored in immense detail. It is not just that poltergeist-hauntings and UFO-sightings are blamed upon the activities of this nefarious little imp; so are everyday misfortunes such as a person's lack of success in love or business. Rather more outlandishly, tokoloshes are also held responsible for supposedly raping innocent women in their beds at night and then impregnating them with goblin-children; court cases have arisen in which people have been accused of murdering such unfortunate infants whilst under the genuine impression that they were evil tokoloshe-babies. But this is not all - tokoloshes have also been linked with witchcraft, zombies, paranormal stone-showers, murder, ancient Trickster-gods, sightings of unknown animals and outbreaks of mass hysteria. In no other book can you read about topics as diverse and strange as haunted toilets, killer one-eyed Cyclops-men made from porridge, severed penises being used as magical batteries and a deformed baby goat born with the head of Homer Simpson. All this, and the full uncensored tale of the man who claimed to have been molested in the night by a big gay hippo-monster ... Lavishly illustrated and all fully-referenced, this book is not only filled with dozens of unusual, amusing and hitherto-unexamined real-life stories, it also tries to place prevailing contemporary southern African belief in the tokoloshe into some kind of plausible social context. The tokoloshe may not be a genuinely real creature, but it certainly occupies a position of social reality in the minds of those who believe in it - with truly wide-ranging and often unexpected consequences.
Tokoloshe Song
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Author : Andrew Salomon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2014-07-22
Tokoloshe Song written by Andrew Salomon and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-22 with Fiction categories.
When Richard Nevis quit the rat race, being pursued to the Owl House in Nieu Bethesda by an assassin with a books fetish was not what he had in mind. The trouble started while Richard was volunteering at a shelter for mistreated tokoloshes. There he befriended Lun, one of these often misunderstood creatures. But Richard and Lun come to the unwelcome a_ ention of both a brutal villain and Cape Town’s most dangerous criminal mastermind. Teaming up with a potent duo of midwives, who are members of a secret order equally adept at delivering infants and performing martial arts, Richard and Lun have to race across the Karoo in a quest to open an ancient metal box to stay alive. Delightfully entertaining and funny, Tokoloshe Song is Andrew Salomon’s fantasy debut.
An Act Of Terror
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Author : André Brink
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-06-30
An Act Of Terror written by André Brink and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-30 with Fiction categories.
`A massive apartheid thriller centred on a plot to blow up none other than the State President outside the gates of Cape Town Castle. . . Brink at his robust and imaginative best' - Adam Low, Daily Telegraph. A profound novel set in South Africa that combines compelling action with an intellectual confrontation of the author's poitically volatile home country. A brave masterpiece from Booker Prize shortlisted, award-winning author André Brink.
La Vendetta Del Tokoloshe
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Author : Patrizio Sigona
language : it
Publisher: Lulu.com
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La Vendetta Del Tokoloshe written by Patrizio Sigona and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
South Africa Weird And Wonderful
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Author : Rob Marsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
South Africa Weird And Wonderful written by Rob Marsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Blithe Spirits
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Author : S. D. Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2020-03-15
Blithe Spirits written by S. D. Tucker and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Covering and analyzing a wide global selection of reported poltergeist phenomena through history, literature and society.
Delirium
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Author : Akshita Pandey
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 2021-07-29
Delirium written by Akshita Pandey and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Delirium is a collection of short stories in the horror genre. This book features entities from across the world and stories of people who got victimized by explainable forces. the stories in this book are illustrative of the element that unites man-kind regardless of the existing diversity; fear. Experience the fear, felt by the victims of the supernatural through words that await to sink into your consciousness. Let's find out if there is truly something to be afraid of, or is it all in our minds?
The Shadow Of The Torturer
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Author : Gene Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-29
The Shadow Of The Torturer written by Gene Wolfe and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-29 with Fiction categories.
So begins one of the most celebrated stories in fantasy literature . . . packed full of mystery, deep themes and incredible prose, meet Severian the Torturer and follow him on his journey across the great world of Urth Severian is a torturer, born to the guild and with an exceptionally promising career ahead of him . . . until he falls in love with one of his victims, a beautiful young noblewoman. Her excruciations are delayed for some months and, out of love, Severian helps her commit suicide and escape her fate. For a torturer, there is no more unforgivable act. In punishment he is exiled from the guild and his home city to the distant metropolis of Thrax with little more than Terminus Est, a fabled sword, to his name. Along the way he has to learn to survive in a wider world without the guild - a world in which he has already made both allies and enemies. And a strange gem is about to fall into his possession, which will only make his enemies pursue him with ever-more determination . . . Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel, 1981 Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1982 Readers can't stop reading The Shadow of the Torturer: 'Full of rich characters and great imagination' Mark Lawrence, author of Red Sister 'A dark jewel . . . He has a mastery of language not often seen in fantasy writing . . . Couple this with an original and unique, highly imaginative and complex worldbuilding and the high praise is warranted' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'This is a picaresque fantasy with a difference, for our hero Severian is no wide-eyed country boy from the shire, but an apprentice torturer, thoroughly schooled in his trade' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'There are certain books that can be considered life-changing experiences. Gene Wolfe is an author who has written one of those for me' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'The Book of the New Sun Tetralogy is one of the great achievements in science fiction and is a MUST READ for fans of the genre. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!!!' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'In addition to being unique in style, The Shadow of the Torturer is a gorgeous piece of work: passionate storytelling (heart-wrenching in places), fascinating insights into nature and the human condition, beautiful prose' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Genre fiction at its finest. Original, difficult and well-crafted, it is easy to see how Wolfe is regarded as a writer's writer' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
The Truth About Crime
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Author : Jean Comaroff
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Truth About Crime written by Jean Comaroff and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
This new book by the well-known anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff explores the global preoccupation with criminality in the early twenty-first century, a preoccupation strikingly disproportionate, in most places and for most people, to the risks posed by lawlessness to the conduct of everyday life. Ours in an epoch in which law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcement are ever more critical registers in which societies construct, contest, and confront truths about themselves, an epoch in which criminology, broadly defined, has displaced sociology as the privileged means by which the social world knows itself. They also argue that as the result of a tectonic shift in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance, the meanings attached to crime and, with it, the nature of policing, have undergone significant change; also, that there has been a palpable muddying of the lines between legality and illegality, between corruption and conventional business; even between crime-and-policing, which exist, nowadays, in ever greater, hyphenated complicity. Thinking through Crime and Policing is, therefore, an excursion into the contemporary Order of Things; or, rather, into the metaphysic of disorder that saturates the late modern world, indeed, has become its leitmotif. It is also a meditation on sovereignty and citizenship, on civility, class, and race, on the law and its transgression, on the political economy of representation.
Explaining Interpreting And Theorizing Religion And Myth
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Author : Nickolas P. Roubekas
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-07-20
Explaining Interpreting And Theorizing Religion And Myth written by Nickolas P. Roubekas and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-20 with Religion categories.
Taking its cue from Robert A. Segal’s work, Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal offers a set of essays by renowned scholars addressing the persisting question of how to approach religion and myth as academic categories.