In the northern part of Sudan are the Nubians who
believe in a race of people called Dogirs. This race are said to
be a highly organized society who live in the Nile. The Dogir are
male and occasionally come to the land to capture a woman to marry.
Because of the danger of being kidnapped, Nubian woman are only allowed
to bathe at the banks of the river but are not allowed to go into the
water. Some tales say that the Dogirs were once human but were
transformed by witchcraft. If you travel further south, the tales
of the Dogirs turn darker. They become horrible monsters with
glowing eyes who appear only at night to eat humans. Some of these
Dogirs are said to live in human villages and only transform at night by
rolling in ashes. The fear of these creatures was so great that in
1929 in the village of Dabod, the police conducted a search for people
who had a swelling in their lower back. This was the sign of a
carnivore's tail which grew once the individual transformed themselves.
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