HER bed’s inside the house, but gogo Sarah Mogwane (78) prefers to sleep under a tree outside. She’s vowed not to move back in until a very unwelcome guest leave. A venomous cobra slithered into gogo’s shack on Wednesday evening.
The gogo from Zone 14 in Ga-Rankuwa, Tshwane told Daily Sun she was sitting on her sofa listening to the radio last Wednesday when she saw something shining on the floor. “I thought someone had spilled water and got up to mop it up.” But when she looked closely, the snake reared its head and looked her straight in the eye – ready to strike! I screamed for my daughter. We tried to kill the snake but it disappeared. We spent the rest of the night moving furniture looking for it, but we couldn’t find it.”
The next day it appeared again, but their efforts to kill it failed and it disappeared in the shack again. Gogo Sarah lives with her daughter and great-grandchild. She now sleeps under a tree in her yard during the day and at night she’s on guard, waiting for the snake.
She and her daughter told Daily Sun they believed the snake was sent by evil people. “I know snakes. I used to collect firewood in Limpopo, and that one is a cobra. What surprises me is how it can disappear in such a small shack,” said the gogo.
“It’s clear that this is not a normal cobra. We would have killed it the first night it appeared if it had not been sent by evil people.”Daughter Sesi Nthane (43) said her granddaughter (3) has been suffering from epileptic fits since the snake showed up.
She said after the doctor’s medicine didn’t help, they took her to a sangoma who told them a reptile was sent by evil people to cause trouble and bring death. The gogo said she now uses a mixture of garlic, methylated spirits and potassium permanganate to try and scare the cobra away. She asked SunReaders for help.
Sangoma Sibongile Maluleke said the family needed to consult a strong sangoma to perform a ritual in the yard and chase the evil away.
The gogo from Zone 14 in Ga-Rankuwa, Tshwane told Daily Sun she was sitting on her sofa listening to the radio last Wednesday when she saw something shining on the floor. “I thought someone had spilled water and got up to mop it up.” But when she looked closely, the snake reared its head and looked her straight in the eye – ready to strike! I screamed for my daughter. We tried to kill the snake but it disappeared. We spent the rest of the night moving furniture looking for it, but we couldn’t find it.”
The next day it appeared again, but their efforts to kill it failed and it disappeared in the shack again. Gogo Sarah lives with her daughter and great-grandchild. She now sleeps under a tree in her yard during the day and at night she’s on guard, waiting for the snake.
She and her daughter told Daily Sun they believed the snake was sent by evil people. “I know snakes. I used to collect firewood in Limpopo, and that one is a cobra. What surprises me is how it can disappear in such a small shack,” said the gogo.
“It’s clear that this is not a normal cobra. We would have killed it the first night it appeared if it had not been sent by evil people.”Daughter Sesi Nthane (43) said her granddaughter (3) has been suffering from epileptic fits since the snake showed up.
She said after the doctor’s medicine didn’t help, they took her to a sangoma who told them a reptile was sent by evil people to cause trouble and bring death. The gogo said she now uses a mixture of garlic, methylated spirits and potassium permanganate to try and scare the cobra away. She asked SunReaders for help.
Sangoma Sibongile Maluleke said the family needed to consult a strong sangoma to perform a ritual in the yard and chase the evil away.
Source : Dailysun
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