A Goblin, Mike Maqobola, alleged to have been leading a gang of invisible beings in terrorising Cowdray Park residents, has finally been captured in a two-hour dramatic Nigerian movie style exorcism.
Maqobola and his gang were allegedly assaulting residents, sodomising and raping women from the suburb.
Residents yesterday expressed mixed feeling over the dramatic cleansing ceremony, with some believing the “supernatural battle” had ended while some alleged that the whole ritual was staged.
A group of seven prophets led by prophet Lazarus Siziba from Holy Spirit Apostolic Church teamed up to hunt down the goblins around 11AM, with scores of people curiously waiting for the goblin to be captured.
On Tuesday night, the team held an all night vigil as they prayed and sang in preparation for yesterday’s ritual.
At one of the houses where goblins were said to be, a chicken was used to “trap” Maqobola, who is alleged to have been surviving on eggs and chicken.
The goblin hunters also used empty beer bottles whose part in the ritual was not explained.
Residents who had thronged the house to witness the capture of the goblin, ran away in different directions when the prophets came out of the house speaking in a strange language.
The crew appeared to be struggling with a creature which they had wrapped in a doormat.
They told the people that they had killed the creature’s spirit and thereafter moved to the next house.
Strange things wrapped with coloured beads were retrieved from the two houses.
One of the things looked like an oversized dildo, another looked like the head of a monkey while the third had feathers like a bird.
The prophets said the goblins did not belong to the house owners but were just kept at their houses.
They refused to name the goblin owners saying the crowd might attack them.