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Updated: May 12, 2025
With this superstition is united another similar to the werewolf of Germany, viz., a belief in the power of human metamorphosis into a leopard. A person so metamorphosed is called 'Uvengwa. At one time in Benito an intense excitement prevailed in the community. Doors and shutters were rattled at the dead of night, marks of leopard claws were scratched on door-posts. Then tracks lay on every path.
It is difficult to decide in many of these reports whether it is a real leopard or only an Uvengwa to native fears they are practically the same, we were certain this time the Uvengwa was the thief disguised in leopard's skin, as theft is always heard of about such times."
When I was in Gaboon in September, 1895, there was great Uvengwa excitement in a district just across the other side of the estuary, mainly at a village that enjoyed the spacious and resounding name of Rumpochembo, from a celebrated chief, and all these phenomena were rife there.
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