2006-09-22 03:35:05 · 14 answers · asked by Porgie 7 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ South Africa
There was this guy with a deformed face that used to live in our neighborhood. And everyone said that his face was deformed because he laughed at the story of the "headless horseman" at exactly midnight. Any other stories like these that you are aware of?
And I've heard the one about "virgins being a cure to AIDS"!
2006-09-22 04:57:08 · update #1
The one about black people putting their beds on bricks for the tokoloshe is a urban myth made up by white folks.
When I asked our maid why she did that she replied: "There is more space underneath to put my bags", and when I asked about the tokoloshe she laughed and said: "But my grandmother sleeps on a grass mat on the floor in her hut, why doesnt she put something under her mat then?"
There's also the one about the dancing balls of fire that jump on the fences and telephone wires, if you're driving from the Freestate to Pretoria at night.
There is one about people who wait at the end of tunnels, and if you approach with you're car at night, they hold up a mirror to reflect you're light back to you. You assume there is a car heading straight for you, swing out, and crash, only to be robbed by these folks.
Will think of some more and add them asap.
I've always loved "spook stories".
Also went to a girls boarding school for a year and heard the one about "pinky" who would rape girls with pink underwear, dont know how true that is.
And the one about the man with the hook for a hand, hiding on suinheuwel in CTown, waiting for young couples to attack.
2006-09-23 01:46:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anria A 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2015-08-18 21:28:00 · answer #3 · answered by Shea 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm...don't know if it is an urban legend but there is the one about the tokolosh..... The black people believe if their beds are not on bricks or a bit higher the tokolosh will come and grab you or something like that.Sometimes I wonder that the so called warnings we get about new methods of hi-jacking is not in the same category...and I know that hi-jackings and such stuff is serious but you are never sure how true it is because of the problem of spam and hoaxes out there...
2006-09-22 05:26:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't know any South African urban legends, but the one about the flashing headlights mentioned above was popular on the East coast of the U.S. about 10 years back.
2006-09-22 03:43:31 · answer #5 · answered by Krista D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is one in my home town that 4big black women are driving around in a blue car and if talk to them they beat you up.
And the aids thing people actully believe it also if you take a young boys private parts and eat them.There is a urban legend in jozi that if the lights go out and you eat ice-cream,the beast wil set fire to your house.
2006-09-23 02:36:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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This gives me pain, but a man and woman were in the south african amizon. they decided to go skinny dipping in this lake and so they did. while in the lake the guy peed and suddenly he got excrutionating pain down there. turns out some fish smelled his pee and flew up his ding dong. it ended up being false, i think...
2016-04-05 01:19:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
here's one circulating right now:
A gang initation is going around where the new members drive a car without their lights on. Being the helpful bunch that we are - the average joe or jane would give them a warning hey your lights arent on flash. Now apparently the first car to flash these people will be shot at by the gang initiates...
URBAN legend of note!
2006-09-22 03:40:18 · answer #8 · answered by tay_jen1 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
So there's the one about Van Hinks and the Devil.
When Table Mountain gets a cloud covering its because Van Hinks is sitting at one end and the Devil at the other and are each smoking a pipe and chatting. The resulting smoke is the cloud.
Old though, I heard it as a child.
2006-09-22 09:28:20 · answer #9 · answered by london.oval 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
NOT TRUE! White people did NOT make this up!
The "older" blacks believe in the tokolosh, witch doctors and voodoo as well.
The younger generation don't any longer (not a lot of them anyway)
Please know your facts before making accusations, thank you very much.
2014-01-07 23:59:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋