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huts at night and kill travellers in order to eat their flesh or employ 
it in various magic arts. They retain the human form, but, owing 
to magic power, cannot be caught, as spears and bullets do not 
wound them. Curiously enough, it is said, however, that long sticks 
affect them, and with such a stick it is possible for a man to drive 
them about until dawn, when they can be seen and recognised. In 
some parts of Unyoro it is thought that both men and women can 
at night take at will the form of a lion, a leopard, or a hyena, travel 
long distances, and also may kill and devour lonely wanderers. This 
reminds one strongly of a belief which obtains in Darfour, and to 
which I referred in my paper on that country. It would seem also 
to point to the fact that cannibalism may have been once practised 
in Unyoro. The following stories, one of which is very like one 
told in Uganda, illustrate this point ; — ■ 
One night a man was coming home from hunting ; he had been a 
long, long way, and was belated ; losing his path in the dark forest, 
he was greatly distressed, and called out loudly, hoping to attract 
attention. A lion, which was in reality a man, heard him, and 
coming up, offered to show him the way home. Instead of doing 
this, however, the lion led his victim deeper and deeper into the 
forest. After a time, seeing no lights, and not coming to any habita- 
tion, he got more frightened, and asked the lion where he was lead- 
ing him. “ To my cooking-place,” said the lion ; at which the man 
tried to run away, but the lion killed, boiled, and ate him. 
Many years ago, two men rose up before it was light one morning, 
as they wished to go a long journey. They had to pass by the hut 
of a noted medicine-woman, and were rather shy of doing so. Just 
as they reached the glade in which the witch lived they saw a 
hyena run into the hut. At that moment the sun rose, and the 
beast changed into the witch. The men rushed forward and caught 
her, and when they had told their neighbours what had happened, 
she was condemned to death. She said before she died that she 
had eaten many folk, and she threatened the people with much ill. 
Her threats availed nothing, however, and they clubbed her to death. 
Casati says it is believed that any warlike enterprise is destined 
by supernatural power to have a glorious end if a human victim be 
offered as a holocaust on the frontier of the enemy, and is neither 
insulted nor taken away from the spot by them. “ A child of 
