The Night Dancer

So last night, as we gathered in the sitting room, Kelsey (another volunteer) told us that she met a night dancer in her village. upon hearing this I immediately thought prostitute, so I asked Esther the all powerful and knowledgeable house manager to explain for clarification. what i found out, however is that night dancing has nothing to do with prostitution... it is faaarrr worse.

Ugandans are full of superstition, and many still believe in witchcraft, sorcery and curses.
Along these lines falls the tales of night dancers, who oddly enough, aren't really tales at all, but real people.

Late at night, in the rural villages of uganda, people will awake to knocking at the door and howling in the streets. If one looks outside their windows, they will see a woman, running naked as though possessed through the streets. It is on a night, usually after a funeral that this woman will run to the cemetery and dig up the body. They will carry this body home, cook it, and consume it. According to esther night dancing is an inherited trait and can not be controlled. during the day these dancers walk among us as though normal citizens, but at night they become possessed by their desires for human flesh. It is said that these night dancers do not eat from the graves of their neighbors, but rather, will travel to neighboring villages and steal their dead.
According to ancient tradition and the laws of the night dancer, they must never offer the flesh of the dead to guests.
Thank goodness I don't have to worry about that...