A LEGEND OF THE CREATION. 93 above,” both of whom had tails. They produced a son and two daughters, who married. One daughter bore a loathsome beast, the chameleon (warsselikotto); the other a giant, the moon. Both children grew up, but soon disputes arose between them, for the chameleon was wicked and spiteful, and at last “the great Magician” took the moon up to the place whence it still looks down upon the earth. But, to keep in remembrance its earthly origin, it becomes large and brilliant, and then decreases, as though about to die, yet does not die, but in two days passes round the horizon from east to west, and appears again, tired from its journey and therefore small, in the western sky. But the sun was angry with the new rival, and burnt it so that the marks are still visible on its face. The chameleon and its progeny peopled the earth, the tails were lost, and the originally pale colour of the skin soon became dark under the glowing sun. At the present time the heavenly spheres are inhabited by people with tails, who have many herds. ‘The stars are watchmen which “the great Magician” (Nyavankya or Kdgra) posts during the night. The sun is inhabited by giants. i The belief in magic and amulets, as well as in the possibility of making people ill, or even compassing their death by means of charms and incantations, is widely diffused in Unydro and Uganda. Naturally no trace is to be found of the idea of a future life. In both countries the women are buried in the court of the house they have occupied to the right-hand side of the door, the men to the left of it. The graves are horizontal, and three to four feet deep. The corpse les on the right side, as is usual in sleep. The Wanyoro, however, who live on the Albert Lake, bury their dead, men or women, in the middle of the courtyard, and erect above the grave a miniature hut, in which tobacco, pipes, bananas, mwénge, &c., are deposited. Young children are everywhere buried in the garden which adjoins each house.

There is a singular belief that certain men leave their huts at night, and kill travellers in order to eat their flesh or employ it in various magic arts. They retain the human form on their night excursions, but owing to magic power they cannot be caught. Spears and bullets do not touch