We all know that myths are widespread and every culture has them. Usually, these myths are old and the superstitious and out-of-control explanation of events since forgotten or scientifically explained.

The myth of the Popobawas starts out like any other. It’s nighttime. Weird shadows. OH NOES! A monster! It attacks! Sexually! Aaaarrgh!

But there’s four things special about this particular brand of bat-like incubus:

1. He’s gay.

He attacks men as they sleep, overpowering them, holding their face to the floor and forcefully raping them in the anus for up to an hour or so.

2. He just loves publicity.

The victims are threatened with repeated, and longer, sodomizations if they do not let their friends and neighbors know of their experience.

3. He’s really young.

A popular origin story of Popobawa proposes that in the 1970s an angry sheikh released a djinni to take vengeance on his neighbors. The sheik lost control of the djinni, who took to demonic ways. [citation needed]

4. He’s somehow connected to the elections in Zanzibar.

Reports of Popobawa attacks rise and fall with the election cycle in Zanzibar, although victims argue Popobawa is apolitical.

Unfortunately, due to his really being ugly, the Popobawa will never join his cousin, the vampire, in the popularity charts. Or would you want to read a story, where a young girl falls in love with this mysterious guy?