Female residents at Bethanie are living in fear as a Tokoloshe is reported to suck at the breasts of unsuspecting women and is being accused of sexually abusing them. The creature has apparently been causing havoc in the village since early this year. Bethanie is situated 70 kilometres from Khorixas on the way to Twyfelfontein.

“The Tokoloshe is sucking my breasts and at times it also sexually abused us,” reported Veterika Gawises. “Sometimes in the morning I wake up with swollen private parts,” the distressed 37-year old mother of six children revealed. Gawises told Informanté that she was shocked by the ordeal and is very afraid as this unexplained phenomenon presents a particular kind of hell for women in the village. Another woman who reportedly suffered the torment of the breast-sucking tokoloshe refused to spoke to Informanté out of fear.
The husband of Gawises reiterated the claims about the tokoloshe and said: “My wife and some other women complained about the sexually abusive breast-sucking tokoloshe at Bethanie.”
The residents are now hoping to bring in prophets to pray for them as the matter has gotten out of hand, but the fees charged to exorcise the town are exorbitant and beyond the means of the poverty-stricken rural community. “We plan to bring prophets, one of whom has asked for N$10 000, while another asked for N$2 800 to pray for us,” Gawises told Informanté.
An elderly married man at the town is suspected of being behind the sexually abusive tokoloshe. According to Gawises the man asked them for forgiveness and has said that “the thing is not meant to harm you, but was sent to someone else.”
Informanté has in the past reported on unexplained phenomena in the Khorixas area, but the existence of this mythical creature could not be verified and to date no proof exists to verify the veracity of the reports from the village of Bethanie.

Clemans Miyanicwe is a freelance community reporter