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Swahili coastal folklore (Tanganyika / Tanzania)

1 record of Swahili coastal folklore (Tanganyika / Tanzania) — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

MngwaCryptid · TanzaniaIn Swahili coastal lore of Tanzania the mngwa — “the strange one,” also nunda — is a huge brindled grey cat, told apart from lion and leopard. Twentieth-century colonial reports from Lindi kept the name alive; this archive treats it as cryptid folklore, not a museum specimen.