Daily Sun (December 3 2014) - IT STARTED with her panty making her bum itch.
Now her whole body is on fire.
ELIZABETH BELIEVES IT'S A CURSE - AND IT'S COMING FROM HER BEDROOM WARDROBE.
When it first started, Elizabeth Mothuping (53) from Motsoaledi squatter camp, Soweto didn't think much of it.
Her panty had made her bum itch and that was all - or so she thought.
"I thought it was some sort of allergy that would soon go away," she said.
But the itch didn't go away. It just got worse and worse until she felt as if her whole body was burning up.
Now Elizabeth locks herself up in her house, dressed in only her underclothes because she can't stand the itching and the aches.
"When I wear my clothes or walk in the sun it becomes worse," she said.
About three weeks after the itching started, Elizabeth remembered something that happened one night when she was in bed with her husband, Hennie Mongwe (53).
"I felt something moving inside the mattress," she said.
"I woke Hennie up but he said he didn't feel anything."
But the next morning when she tried to open her wardrobe her whole body, including her face, started itching.
"At that moment my whole life changed, but I'm the only one affected and I'm the only one who can feel the movement in the bed."
"I'm afraid of my bedroom and my wardrobe."
She said she washed her clothes but it didn't help.
Elizabeth even wrote a letter to the sender of what she thinks is a spell. It promises the person who cast the spell that they will get the evil back eight times over.
But that didn't help either.
She said she has always had a good relationship with her family but she feels so frustrated she is taking it out on them.
"It's me, my husband and our two daughters in the house, but they are not affected," she said.
"When I ask my husband what he thinks the problem is he just keeps quiet. Why doesn't he say anything? Why doesn't he show any interest in my ordeal?"
Elizabeth said it's a horrible feeling.
"Even as I'm speaking to you I'm trying to ignore it," she said.
"I feel like taking a scrubbing brush to scrub my body so that it stops."
Sangoma Mandla Mnqwazi said a spell has been cast over Elizabeth and her husband to bring unhappiness to the house. He said she must buy madubula and mix it with aloe from the bushes and sprinkle her clothes. Then the itch will go away, he says.
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