Pitse James (53) says she is grieving for her son Tshepo (27), because he isn't enjoying his life like other young men.
Pitse says she watches in horror as her son has sex with the a female goblin.
He just wants tea and food to share with the tokoloshe (goblin) that only he can see.
He talks and laughs with her but he attacks his family and wrecks things in their shack.
That's why his father left.
And his mum, brother and sister have fled from his attacks.
Pitse said Tshepo's life changed when she took him to an old sangoma (traditional healer) to help him heed his ancestral calling.
The old man made cuts on Tshepo's forehead and lower legs and said: "If you don't listen to me, you will see for yourself."
But the sangoma turned his life and that of his family into a nightmare.
Tshepo wets himself and instead of bathing, he mixes mud and swims in it.
He eats under his blanket apparently sharing his food with the creature.
Tshepo told the SunTeam on Saturday he was in love with the tokoloshe.
"She is not an old woman but a young girl," he said.
He says, he feeds her as she can't feed herself.
Sangoma Mandla Mnqwazi said the old sangoma set demons on Tshepo.
"He need to be treated, not with muthi but with holy water.
"If the family finds someone who knows how to use water, he will be cured," he said. - Dailysun