Uzumba – A 40-year-old woman from Chief Nyajina’s area in Uzumba is desperately seeking answers and relief from a series of unsettling and inexplicable experiences. Mrs. Auline Pasipamire claims to be plagued by the leakage of green milk from her breasts, coupled with nightly sexual encounters with unseen, spectral men.
Mrs. Pasipamire, a mother of three, including a married child and a five-year-old, says she is utterly bewildered and distressed by her condition.
“I have a big problem that I am facing of being sexually violated in my dreams, whether it is during the day or at night. As soon as I fall asleep, it starts. Sometimes I wake up and just start feeling the violation, and where I go to seek help, they tell me these are goblins or tokoloshes,” Mrs. Pasipamire explained, her voice laced with desperation.
The origins of this disturbing phenomenon, she says, can be traced back to her time as a boarding student at Nyadire High School in Mutoko. The nightly visitations by unseen entities continued even after she married in 2003, eventually leading to the breakdown of her marriage.
“When I was at school, I would just dream of being sexually violated until I finished school. I then got married in 2003, and it continued happening. I also started having the problem of green milk just leaking from my breasts, even though I don’t have a baby. I feel these breasts being suckled by things I cannot see as well, which ends up making these breasts sore and painful because the nipples are being pulled,” she recounted.
The strain on her marriage proved unbearable. Mrs. Pasipamire’s former husband, she says, struggled to comprehend and cope with the situation.
“I used to argue with my former husband because he would see me as a man, and he would also say that there was another man who would come into our house and have relations with me. Because of this problem, my former husband ended up running away from home, and we divorced two years ago. Now I am just a widow,” she lamented.
The green milk discharge, a separate but equally perplexing symptom, began in 2005. Mrs. Pasipamire has sought help from various sources, but her experiences have been met with accusations and stigmatisation.
“Wherever I go, I am told that I am a goblin’s wife, and it is also said that there are relatives who are troubling me. In my life, I am also accused of things I have not done, which they say is bad luck that I have been burdened with,” she said.
Adding to her woes, Mrs. Pasipamire says she suffers from physical ailments related to her alleged spiritual affliction. “I have been surrounded by problems. I am talking about being sexually violated by men I cannot see and leaking milk when I don’t have a baby. Right now, my private parts have wounds from being scratched and troubled. I went to the hospital, and they said I don’t have any illness,” she revealed.
Currently, Mrs. Pasipamire ekes out a living through piecework, washing clothes and weeding fields, but her meagre earnings are insufficient to meet her needs. Her parents, she says, are unable to provide support due to the magnitude of her problems.
“In our family, we are 7 children, three boys and four girls, and we all have problems. My sisters don’t have children except for one, so we all need help,” she pleaded.
Mrs. Alice Kwenda Masoko (69) from Harare, offered a traditional perspective on Mrs. Pasipamire’s situation. “She needs help urgently because she may be being sexually violated by tokoloshes or she is a ngozi’s wife,” she said, suggesting that witchcraft or vengeful spirits could be at play. “She may have been bewitched by relatives or men she is having relationships with.”
Dr. Enock Maidah from the medical department at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), urged Mrs. Pasipamire to seek professional medical attention. “Mrs. Pasipamire should go to the hospital to see doctors who are experts in various diseases so that she can be helped,” he advised, highlighting the importance of ruling out any underlying medical conditions.
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