Hull Daily Mail [UK]
9 June 2019
The heartbreaking story
behind Hull’s tragic Bubblegum Boy
[…] The urban legend of the little boy from Hull who
died after choking on a piece of chewing gum was used as a cautionary tale by
parents across the city. Now, the true story of the 12-year-old, who died in
1933, has been uncovered – and far from the grim tale that has been bandied
around school playgrounds for decades, it tells a tale of a mother's heartache
at losing her son. […]
[This is just the latest appearance of Faye Preston’s
article on the Hull Daily Mail’s
website. It also appeared on 29 March 2018 (“What really happened to Hull’s
Bubblegum Boy – and it’s even more tragic than the legend”) and 29 August 2015
(“The tragic truth about Bubblegum Boy – a Hull urban legend”).]
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Daily Mail [UK]
10 June 2019
Chinese airport warns
passengers that tossing coins at planes for good luck will JINX their lives
instead after multiple travellers were detained for the superstitious act
An airport in south China has issued a notice warning
passengers not to throw coins at planes for good luck, claiming that the
superstitious act would jinx them instead. The advisory was displayed on a
screen near the security check area at the Phoenix International Airport in
Sanya, Hainan Island around two weeks ago, according to Chinese reports,
following a number of recent coin toss incidents at other airports across the
country. […]
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African Arguments
10 June 2019
Tanzania: The strange and
worrying rise of oil-covered rapists in Kigoma
[…] Sexual violence is a serious problem across the
world, but in the last few years, it has taken a particularly strange form in
[…] Kigoma. In this area, scores of women have similar accounts of rapists
breaking into their homes, covered in grease. The first attacks of this kind
reportedly occurred around 2014 and have increased ever since. The attackers –
known locally as Teleza, which refers
to the fact that they cover themselves in oil – typically break into the homes
of women in the night. They are often armed and threaten violence, sometimes
leaving the survivors with life-threatening injuries. […]
Global Voices
11 June 2019
In Tanzania, advocates
pressure police to investigate ‘teleza’ rapes and robberies
On May 27, 2019, Tanzanian police announced the launch
of an operation to investigate and prosecute “teleza” — armed men who have
allegedly raped and terrorized women in the Mwanga Kusini Ward of Kigoma in
western Tanzania since 2016. The men
reportedly grease their faces and bodies with oil before breaking into
female-majority households to rape and rob women throughout the Mwanga Kusini
area. Teleza means “slippery” in Swahili and the term has been used to describe
these types of attacks. […]
[One would
think that being covered in oil would make perpetrating a rape more difficult.
Some other oily assailants are the orang minyak
of Malaysia and the “grease devil” of Sri Lanka.]
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