Kisii: Where witches hunt for ‘dead meat’ in graves

 

• Graves in some parts of Kisii are dug to a depth of seven feet to ward off the witches
• The practice of sorcerers exhuming corpses among the Abagusii has been the talk for centuries but nobody seems to understand the phenomenon
• The corpse are allegedly devoured by the witches as the casket is used to ripen matoke

Kisii is infamous for witches, real or imagined. And none strike as much terror as those said to prowl graveyards in the dead of the night, and falling upon fresh graves to dig up decomposing corpses. They eat them, so goes legend.