BY TRADITION

Angolan folklore

1 record of Angolan folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

KishiShapeshifter · AngolaIn Ambundu storytelling recorded in Ki-Mbundu, a kishi (plural makishi) is a man-eating being who courts, abducts, and feeds. Later popular retellings add a human face hiding a hyena’s jaws; Chatelain’s 1894 texts emphasise tangled hair, hunger, and dangerous intimacy.