The Abassese believed in a spirit called Mbirimu, a shape shifter, who could take the form of human or animal. One day, as the story goes, Mbirimu was lonely, so he took the body of a woman and ...

BUT PYTHON'S SPIRIT ISN'T 'HOLY' LOST BY JACK MATHEWS DAILY NEWS MOVIE CRITIC If anticipation is 70% of good sex, a proportion I just made up, it is about 90% of the pleasure of "Monty Python's ...

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.

With fantasy sequences, inside jokes and funny asides, the film gamely tries to capture the Python spirit. Not everything works. The talk show producer is over-the-top rude.