‘Chamfwiti’, (The Tree of Witches) can be found at Chitope village, in the lower Luangwa Valley, about 55kms north of Luangwa (Feira).

 Local folklore has it that, when wizards and witches were killed, their bodies were dumped in the hollow trunk of this baobab at the edge of the village:  the last recorded instance of this being in 1952.

Villagers say a colonial District Officer once entered the tree to collect a skull for a museum.  But he was chased away by a big snake.

 It is certainly a sinister and spooky tree.  Any modern-day doubters can go inside and see remnants of what appear to be human skulls.