summoned-and-directed-by-sorcerer

Popobawa · salience 0.7

“Accounts vary on its ultimate origin, with some tellings describing it as a djinn or spirit summoned or bound by a sorcerer, and others treating it as a freestanding malevolent entity in its own right.”

Tikoloshe

“The Tikoloshe is most often depicted as a creature raised and directed by a malevolent traditional healer or sorcerer, called upon to bring harm, sickness, nightmares, or death to an enemy, or sometimes kept for protection or to torment a household on the sorcerer's behalf.”