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A WOMAN who is addicted to eating toilet paper and spends almost US$2 700 a year on it has revealed that she sometimes snacks on the household item “before she even brushes her teeth”.
“I eat toilet paper from the second I get up in the morning,” Kinah told “My Strange Addiction: Still Addicted?”, which airs on the TLC network on Wednesdays.
In a social media preview of the clip, she can be seen nibbling on a roll, claiming it “hits the spot”.
“And guess what? Toilet paper has zero calories,” Kinah added. “And it won’t even give you a hangover.”
The toilet paper connoisseur also slammed the notion that it is all “created equally” and admitted she prefers one-ply to two-ply.
According to TLC, the addict eats up to four toilet paper rolls a day, which is “almost 14 000 pounds (6 350kg) over the past 20 years”.
What is more, Kinah does not just stick to sating her toilet paper fix at home.
She eats it “everywhere — at work, in the car and at the nail salon”.
The strange snacker added she does get a few “weird stares” and has even seen someone pull their phone out to try and record her.
“You know, toilet paper is not meant for human consumption,” her ex-fiancé Anthony said.
“It does not break down in your body. That . . . gross, man.”
But Kinah “does not care” about the critics and says the taste and crunch “makes her mouth water”.
She has compared the feeling she gets after eating toilet paper to the euphoric post-Thanksgiving slump after “you ate all your favourite foods”.
At another point in the preview, Kinah can be seen munching on her snack of choice at a nail salon.
The bewildered shop owner, Flora, then laughed and admitted she found the behaviour “weird”.
“Why is she eating the toilet paper?” she asked.
“And continuously putting it in her mouth without even drinking water.” — Wires
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Sex worker’s spirit
haunts family 50 years later
MEMBERS of a Nyanga family claim they are being haunted by the vengeful spirit of a sex worker who was killed 50 years ago by their patriarch.
The spirit, which speaks through possessed members of the Muusha family, says it will not rest until it is appeased.
The spirit identifies itself as Elizabeth Ncube, a sex worker from Chiredzi who was working in Bulawayo before being killed by Moses Muusha after a dispute over payment.
The matter appeared before acting Chief Saunyama’s court recently.
During the court session, Moses Muusha, who had been insisting for months that he has nothing to do with the avenging spirit that is haunting his family, shocked the gallery when he finally confessed to committing the crime.
The man also revealed that after killing Ncube in 1968, he was convicted by the courts and served his time in prison.
“I was a young man and did not know what I was doing back then. We were both drunk and the sex worker had denied me her services after she had collected her payment. I hit her once and she fell to her death,” he said.
However, he said he doubted the spirit’s genuineness and accused his first wife of conniving with her children to fake being possessed.
“I strongly feel that someone from my family unearthed my dirty past and exposed it. They connived and started stage-managing spiritual possessions so that they milk me of my wealth.
“If it is indeed Elizabeth’s avenging spirit, then it should also possess my second wife’s daughters and granddaughters, and not just those from my first wife. I think my first wife is working in cahoots with her daughters and grandchildren to dupe me,” said the polygamist, who is no longer in good books with his first wife.
At least five of the Muusha granddaughters have stopped attending school due to the manifestations, as they become violent each time they are possessed.
When the spirit seizes any of the girls, they start banging their heads on the ground, thereby endangering their lives.
As a result, the orphaned girls, who are in the custody of their grandmother, are always bound by chains so that they do not injure themselves when they are possessed.
After orders from acting Chief Saunyama, the family consulted traditional healers, who all claimed it was Ncube’s spirit that needs appeasement.
It seems to be double trouble for the family, as they also claim to be haunted by another vengeful spirit, which is also seeking justice and appeasement.
The spirit of Josphat Mukunje is manifesting in three minor girls from the same family. It alleges the girls’ grandfather, Moses Muusha, killed him in Chipinge two decades ago.
Muusha’s first wife, Tambudzai, said both spirits are demanding compensation.
“At first, it was just Mukunje’s spirit manifesting in three of my granddaughters. My husband denied any knowledge of the avenging spirit. He distanced himself from Mukunje’s death,” she said.
“The chief asked us to consult traditional healers. When we did that, Ncube’s spirit started manifesting in two more of my granddaughters. I never knew that my husband had killed a woman in Bulawayo and is an ex-convict.
“I was so devastated and shocked, and for him to insist that this is being stage-managed when our granddaughters had to drop out of school is saddening. Moses (Muusha) will not budge because it is not affecting him directly. He does not care about his grandchildren’s welfare and future because he has several others,” said the elderly woman.
Hailing from Chipinge, the Muusha family has stayed in Nyanga for decades after Moses migrated to the area in search of greener pastures.
However, Mukunje’s avenging spirit claims Muusha relocated to Nyanga to flee his sins in Chipinge.
When they appeared before the community court, Moses was adamant that his granddaughters are faking the manifestations.
However, this did not go down well with the late Mukunje’s spirit, which possessed one of his granddaughters and spoke in fluent Ndau.
“Do you want to dare me, Moses? Appease my family or risk being wiped out as a family. There will be no trace of the Muusha family in Nyanga in a year if you continue denying killing me in Chipinge. I will keep working with Ncube, whom you also killed, and eventually, every Muusha family member will be ill or dead,” said the spirit.
The matter was adjourned to a later date. — Manica Post
Online Reporter