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Overview
Mbwashehe is a black slug in Werner’s brief series of coastal animal beliefs. Its attributed effect begins when it enters a house where food is cooking. The food, according to the report, will never be done, however long the pot remains on the fire. The creature’s entrance and the continuing failure of cooking are the whole bounded witness.
The article does not give Mbwashehe a human guise, a spoken demand, a particular dish or an adventure in which someone removes it and restores the meal. Nor does it identify a real slug species or name a specific teller for this note. The profile records a household supernatural association from the historical field report, without making it a practical explanation of cooking or inventing an antidote. Its represented appearance remains simply a black slug.
Origins & earliest records
Werner’s 1915 field-report article supplies the specific account and its stated transmission. Individual informants are retained where named; unspecified names and body details are left open.
Records & interpretation
Animals subsection p. 74, complete mbwashehe paragraph.
Selected bibliography
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Some Notes on East African Folklore
Animals subsection p. 74, complete mbwashehe paragraph.
Family & connections
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References
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- Historical field-report article, Folklore 26(1), pp. 60–78Werner1915 — original published field notesResearch access: 2026-10-05
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