Popobawa

The popobawa is a shetani originating from Tanzania. It is a recent newcomer in the region as the first popobawa sightings dating back to 1965. It is unclear if the popobawa is a singular being or a race of beings.

While the Popobawa is refered to as a shetani due to it's evil nature it is actually said to be a djinni in some version of the story that claims it was released in Zanzibar by a powerfull arab sheik in revenge for slights made by the locals. Crypto X Ing uses this version of the popobawa as a singular djinni as it is the most well defined in term of atributes.

## Appearance

The popobawa is a short, red skinned humanoid with bat wings and a singular eye on his forehead. While it is, like all djinns, a gifted shapeshifter, its shadow always looks like a large bat spreadin its wings, hence his name (popobawa meaning "bat wings" in swahili).

## Behaviour

The popobawa always attach himself to a family to torment, it's coming being heralded by poltergueist activity, sudden drops in temperatures and the smell of brimstone.

The popobawa is strictly nocturnal, entering the house when everyone is sleeping before assolting a random member of the household, using the power of his evil eye to paralyse them while he physically assault them and, often, sodomise them. Once finished with the night's activity the popobawa will threaten to return unless his victims publicly admits to every act done to them by the popobawa, a very humiliating process. The popobawa will continue his attacks until being obeyed, switching to other family members from night to night. Although he has a marqued preference for men the popobawa will target women or even children at times.

Once his victims have publicly humiliated themselves the popoawa will move on to another family.

## Characteristics

* Strength : the popobawa is stonger than his size suggests, able to break ribs and subdue adult human males, however his strenght does not appear superhuman as he still rely on his eye to subdue his victims, and the injuries he causes are not outside of what a human could do.
* Resillience : the popobawa is no more resilient than a human.
* Healling factor : the popobawa can expoit his shapeshifting powers to regenerate injuries quasi instantly.
* Speed : the popobawa is not noted to be particularly fast
* Flight : the popobawa can fly, likely even in wingless forms since he is a djinni.
* Intelligence : the popobawa is reasonably intelligent though not notably so.
* Stealth : the popobawa can easily come in and out of houses without being detected

## Powers

* Shapeshifting : the popobawa can adopt a variety of forms, though his pannel of potential forms seems rather limited in comparison to some of the more powerfull djinns, mostly being human sized or smaller, they tend to be equpped with natural weapons, makin them useful in combat.
* Intangibility : the popobawa can become incorporeal at will by turning into smoke, protecting him from physicall attacks.
* Possession : the popobawa can possess up to seven people at a time to do hi bidding, and can grant them the knowledge to create maicat potions that oppens all doors and windows to a house when ablied.
* Evil eye : the popobawa's singular eye can paralyse anyone who meet its gaze, this power is only usable in the popobawa's natural form as it depend on a physicall feature.

## Weaknesses

* Capture : the popobawa was once the slave djinni of a sheik so it is subject to same weakness as many other djinns : he can't untie a knot, open a lock or otherwhise open something that is closed, making him vulnerable to being traped in a closed container.
* Holy symbols : islamic holy symbols can ward of the popobawa.
* Fire : the popobawa appears to be pyrophobic and will stay away from large open fires.
* Pig oil : pig oil reppeal the popobawa.