Bugala Island is home to Luwala, the python spirit (Credit: Bryan Kisembo Delon) Finding Bugala was easy: a ferry crossing of a few hours from Entebbe and I was standing on the island pier.

Near an enchanted forest on a tiny island in the middle of Uganda’s Lake Victoria, live the last remaining guardians of a spirit that takes the form of a python. Legend has it that hundreds of ...

In the context of “Jezebel spirit,” the term has sinister connotations, suggesting the person is under the influence of demons in a spiritual battle between good and evil.