Pupils missed their Primary Leaving Exams (PLE) on Friday after they were attacked by evil spirits, writes Sunday Vision online, Uganda.
The evil spirits reportedly struck in the morning when the pupils of Lwampanga Church of Uganda Primary School in Nakasongola District were halfway through the Mathematics examination.
Possessed by the evil spirits, 7 pupils rushed out of the examination room, hurling insults at people. Thereafter some rolled on the ground and others danced madly around the school compound as people in the vicinity looked on in awe.
A local chairman from Lwampanga Sub-county, Kassim Dimba, confirmed the incident.
– The spirits first attacked three pupils three weeks ago. We called our local cultural leaders in charge of spirits and they managed to calm them. We thought they had been appeased but the spirits attacked more pupils on Tuesday, Kassim said.
By the time of the first exam on Thursday, the evil spirits had been cast out and the pupils were able to write the first two exams peacefully. They were, however, attacked again on Friday morning, sending the school into a panic.
A development worker who works at the Nakasongola District Headquarters, who preferred to remain anonymous, told Sunday Vision that she had heard about the incident from a local council official.
Sunday Vision could not immediately establish whether the incident was hysteria spell or an evil spirit.
According to Kassim Dimba, traditional healers who were called in to deal with the spirits forced them to talk through the pupils.
The spirits said that they were brought by a man in the area at a certain price put inside a pot. The hunt for the pot is underway.
The exam done in the afternoon was completed without incident but the affected students were unable to sit for it as they had not recovered from the attack.
