Night runners are warlocks or witches, with extraordinary powers, who are possessed by an evil spirit to cause trouble at night by performing all kinds of wicked activities while people sleep. When possessed, they go into a trance and develop strange and abnormal characteristics ranging from sensing a human from afar, producing a red light on the tip of their tongue, climbing thorny trees, riding wild animals such as hyenas, hippos, and huge snakes. . , most of which are rare as pets.

These wizards come in all ages, from middle-aged teenagers to mature men and women, but of course strong enough to brave the race at night. They run around naked in total darkness, but they never get hurt. They are so sensitive that catching them is almost impossible. Most of the time we had always managed to track down some, we had to follow specific steps and the results were quite positive!

During the day, night runners are very normal people, leading normal lives and socializing in the community just like any other person. When the sun goes down, his character changes from being a normal human being to an unpredictable person with crazy behaviors and thoughts. They are known to camouflage themselves in bushes, trees, water, and rocks while waiting for people to scare them into an ambush. When entranced, wizards are so powerful that when they apply their wits and a sudden evil ambush, they can cause eternal deafness, dumbness, or even death.

They are people who live in two different worlds but never reveal their secrets to anyone who does not share the qualities of a wizard or witch. Male night runners only possess the qualities of running at night, but their female counterparts exhibit another characteristic: in addition to running at night, they also cast evil spells through their evil eye. They simply do this by looking at someone while they eat, drink or swallow, which causes a severe stomach pain in the bewitched person.

There are only special sorcerers or traditional herbalists who know how to remove the evil eye or protect people from being attacked by the evil eye.

A night runner would visit his home at night and run around the house, while throwing small stones onto the iron sheet roof, causing continual irritation that would keep him awake for most of the night. When irritated, they get nasty and repeatedly bang on people’s doors with their butts. But tracking or seeing them, even during this time, isn’t easy because when you open the door to check, they camouflage themselves by getting up just above the door and sticking their feet in.

Running at night or casting the evil eye is mostly hereditary, but in some cases, people who were not originally witches are known to have been apprenticed through powerful rituals, and for their family to succeed, the relationship between the wife and husband must be good. . For example, some communities believe that when a night runner runs around and kicks in doors or scares people at night, his spouse should be in the kitchen frying peanuts with one leg stuck to the cooking stone. If the peanuts burn, it is believed that they will catch the night runner.

People feared night runners due to their activities in the underworld since time immemorial, but

Unlike today, when their punishment is severe beatings and death in some communities, they were not supposed to be publicly denounced so as not to cast a curse on the person who did it. Our ancestors treated them with respect and there would be a pact between the person who caught a night runner and the night runner himself, which would lead to the night runner going free unharmed and protected, but would reward the tracker by secretly giving him a black cow. .

The first time we went out on a hunting mission to track down the mages, we were not allowed to enter the house for a specific time to help us escape being sniffed out. We were also told to avoid eating fresh red meat or a mature rooster. It is also believed that anyone who wants to deal with a stubborn night runner should roast a fresh sprig of Euphorbia. This apparently causes the night runner’s limbs to swell and prevents them from causing discomfort.