For the YagwoiaAngan people of Papua New Guinea womba is a malignant power with the potential to afflict any soul with cravings for pig meat and human flesh. Drawing on longterm research among the Yagwoia and in an analysis informed by phenomenology and psychoanalysis Jadran Mimica explores the womba complex in its local culturalexistential determinations and regional permutations. He attends to the lived experience of this complex in relation to the wider context of mortuary practices feasti