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Varoyi noUroyi
Varoyi and Uroyi (Witches and Witchcraft)
Pfupiso
VaShona vanotenda kuti varoyi vanoshandisa mweya yevakafa nezvimwe zvisikwa kukuvadza vanhu, uye kuti uroyi hunowanzogara mumhuri huchipfuudzwa nemadzimai.
Nyaya yakazara
VaShona vanotenda kuti pane vanhu, vazhinji vavo vari vakadzi, vanokonzera kusagadzikana mumhuri nomunharaunda kubudikidza noruzivo rwavo rwokushandisa mweya yevakafa. Panonzi vanofamba usiku vakatasva mapere, vachifukunura zvitunha, uye vanogona kutasva vamwe vanhu vachivaita semabhiza. Vanochiva kana kuuraya vachishandisa zvidhoma, zvishiri, kana muchetura, uye vamwe vavo vari varoyi vedzinza vanokurirwa nouroyi navakadzi vemhuri vasingazivi kuti pane zvakavagara mavari, kusvikira vazouya kuzowana kuti vane shavi iri. Mukadzi akadaro haakwanisi kuramba shavi iri nokuti kuriramba kunonzi kunoreva rufu rwomwanakomana wake wedangwe. Kuti muroyi apedzise zvaanenge afunga, anowanzoita zvakavanzika, achinyenyeredza mhuri yomunhu waanovenga, uye vanhu vanoona chiratidzo chekuti mune muroyi kana zvinhu zvinoshamisa zvichiitika mumusha, sokusagona kubatwa nemapere kana zvimbwanana zvake.
In English
The Shona believe that certain people, most of them women, cause misfortune within families and communities through their knowledge of manipulating the spirits of the dead. They are said to travel by night riding hyenas, to disturb corpses, and to be able to ride other people as though they were horses. They are believed to harm or kill using charms, familiar birds, or poison, and some witches are thought to inherit witchcraft within their own clan, passed down through women of the family who are themselves unaware, until the spirit eventually reveals itself in them. Such a woman is said to be unable to refuse this inherited spirit, since refusing it is believed to bring about the death of her eldest son. To carry out her intentions, a witch is thought to act in secret, working against the family of someone she resents, and people take unusual happenings around a home as a sign that a witch may be present.