Popobawa , also Popo Bawa , is the name of an demon evil spirit , or shetani , ref http www.zanzibar ... to Dar es Salaam and other urban centres on the East Africa n coast. Meaning of the name Popobawa ... of Cambridge, 4 February 2005 ref Description and behaviour Popobawa is a shapeshifting shapeshifter ... human or animal form, and metamorphose from one into the other. Popobawa typically visits homesteads ... odor, but this is not always the case. Popobawa attacks men, women and children, and may ... others that they have been assaulted, and are threatened with repeat visits by Popobawa if they do not. During Popobawa panics many people try to guard against attack by spending the night awake outside ... 2009 url http www.scribd.com doc 17111963 The Politicisation of Popobawa Changing Explanations of a Collective Panic in Zanzibar title The Politicisation of Popobawa Changing Explanations of a Collective ... As legendary creature s go, Popobawa is of fairly recent origin. Sightings of the popobawa only ... passed without a sighting, but the popobawa appeared briefly in 2000 and again in 2007. ref name radford Popobawa, Benjamin Radford, Fortean Times. November 2008. Issue 241 ref A popular origin story of Popobawa proposes that in the 1970s an angry sheikh released a djinni to take vengeance on his neighbors ... argued that because of Zanzibar s past as an Arab run slave market, the story of Popobawa is an articulated ... , who investigated the Popobawa in 2007, found that the legend has its roots in Islam, the dominant religion in the area. According to Radford, holding or reciting the Koran is said to keep the Popobawa at bay, much as the Bible is said to dispel Christian demons. ref name radford Modern Popobawa panics Reports of Popobawa attacks rise and fall with the election cycle in Zanzibar, although victims argue Popobawa is apolitical. Popobawa reports rose dramatically relatively recently, in 1995. A further ... accessdate 2010 04 29 ref Villagers maintain that Popobawa becomes enraged if his existence is denied ... more details
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