Talk:Tikoloshe
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[edit] Wikify
I have wikified the article, but also added {{references}} onto it. Kilo-Lima|(talk) 11:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Embarrassing
This "article" is ghastly!! (note the pun). Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 19:19, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
It still is. It contains several different explanations of the Tikolshe, and I can't tell if this means the term included multiple creatures, has different meaning in different places/times, or simply isn't understood by anyone editing the english Wikipedia! PuerExMachina (talk) 23:05, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tokolossi
This article is in bad shape currently, but the subject absolutely needs to be treated here. I remember an article in a 1999 volume Language, Identity, and Conceptualization among the Khoisan (Research in Khoisan Studies, 15) on 'Tokolossi'. It includes a lot of background information, as well as a comparison of Tokolossi myths across southern Africa. If anyone wants to dive into this subject, here's the full reference of the book in which the study appeared (can't recall the name of the article's author):
- Schladt, Mathias (ed.) 1999. Language, Identity, and Conceptualization among the Khoisan (Research in Khoisan Studies, 15), Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
On a sidenote, I've removed the ridiculous paragraph about UFO's. — mark ✎ 19:33, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tokoloshe
I had not realised that I had failed to log in, but the last two edits were mine. Matthew A.J.י.B. 02:20, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] the tokolosee will get you
I lived in Lesotho for 3 years in the early 80s. Doing “the toughest job you’ll ever love”
The tokolosee was in stories told to children to make them behave.
The tokolosee (as it was pronounced in Lesotho where the language is Sesotho) is very scary. In the 90s I scared my own kids and the all the kids at our Halloween parties. SO if any Tokolosee stories get started in North America blame me. The Tokolosee is short , about 4 foot and 4 to 8 inches tall.(depending on the height of the storyteller) It is black, very black, flat black. Its fur head to toe does not shine it absorbs light, should a tokolosee enter a lit room, the room will become darker. In the shadow of a tree or rock, you will not see it. One can easily toss a grown man far. It can leap 20 feet straight up to a tree branch or rock ledge, while holding a child under one arm. The Tokolosee is a meat eater and children are made of meat! I had a peach tree behind my house (Lesotho 1980) and the children would eat the young peaches and get sick. I said “a Tokolosee stays in that tree” and they would stay out of the tree. The tokolosee is going to get you if you don’t watch out.Ntatesteve (talk) 06:03, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
