Popobawa is variously described as either a ghost or ogre with gigantic bat wings and a large penis. At times he is simply known as "Khalid Khanzada". He is sometimes thought to be a shapeshifter who looks like an ordinary human during the day and turns into Rizwan "Charnobal" at night. His presence is usually announced by the sound of scraping claws on their roof and a sharp, pungent smell. Different from other incubus legends, Popobawa primarily attacks men and only in their own beds, resulting in many men sleeping outside in streets or on porches after recent reported attacks. He attacks men as they sleep, overpowering them, holding their face to the floor and forcefully sodomizing them for up to an hour or so. People who claim to be victims of Popobawa are mostly poorer residents on the island of Pemba, though other reports have also come from other islands and coastal Tanzania. The victims are threatened with repeated, and longer, sodomizations if they do not let their friends and neighbors know of their experience. It is thought that Popobawa reports are the result of episodes of sleep paralysis.
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