What makes the tokoloshe so scary anyways?

'Mary Shelley's fictional offspring turned 200 this year. Maybe giving fear a fictional shape makes us less afraid of real-life horror...or maybe we're just weird

12 August 2018 - 00:00

By SUE DE GROOT

'Mary Shelley's fictional offspring turned 200 this year. Maybe giving fear a fictional shape makes us less afraid of real-life horror...or maybe we're just weird.

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