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# Popo Bawa
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1025/
- Published: 2005-05-17T10:38:24.000Z
- Updated: 2005-05-17T10:38:24.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Here's a story about a freaky belief in Zanzibar: fear of the prison-sadist-like Popo Bawa. [Link](http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-05-16T011620Z%5F01%5FDIT604532%5FRTRIDST%5F0%5FOUKOE-TANZANIA-MONSTER.XML&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpts:

> Although no one ever has seen it, belief in the monster and his unnatural lust is so strong that entire villages will sleep out of doors for protection: Popo Bawa (Swahili for Bat's Wing) prefers to attack behind closed doors at night.

> In huts set amid rustling groves of jackfruit and mangoes on Zanzibar's Pemba island, victims told Reuters in interviews that they detected a bad smell, became cold and went into a trance in the moments before they felt the creature's inhuman strength.

> Some attacks were heralded by the sound of giant wings and claws rattling and scraping on huts' tin roofs. Others cringed in terror at what sounded like a car engine ticking over.

The article says that Popo Bawa attacks men and women. How long before Popo Bawa makes it into a judge's legal opinion about the naturalness of homosexuality?