Then they shouted, “It is the witch she seeks;
bring Dzango.” The old woman was speedily
found and dragged to the spot. The instant she
appeared the corpse’s eyes assumed such a terrific
expression of menacing accusation that Dzango
then and there fell on her knees and begged for
mercy. She confessed that for years she had been
an eater of human flesh, and had exhumed the
body of Shipapata’s wife, whom, owing to an un-
controllable longing to eat her, she had killed by
witchcraft. The body was taken by her in two
pieces to the top of M’sunga by a road she only
knew, and there devoured. So overwrought were
the horrified villagers by these appalling disclosures
that Dzango was at once taken forth and put to
death by being placed in the path of a procession


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of black warrior ants, which ate her alive on the
outskirts of the village.
