What does "ngozi" mean in chiShona culture?

[Numero Uno]

Can y'all define for me what ngozi means?

 

[Queen]

Okay, now those stories about some Zimdancehall artists in Zimbabwe who are often said to use juju how does that work out?

I'd say those Zimdancehall artists will likely be using what is called chitsinga in Chivanhu.

 

[Bla Jedza]

I'd say those Zimdancehall artists will likely be using what is called chitsinga in Chivanhu.

Chitsinga chii?

 

[Queen]

Chitsinga chii?

Chitsinga is a rheumatic condition normally used to bewitch a rival.

For example, in the context yeZimdancehall music yawatanga, zvinoreva kuti, if Zimdancehall artiste X doesn't like Zimdancehall artiste Y. What Zimdancehall artiste X will do, is getting in close physical contact with Zimdancehall artiste X and gently rub or apply mbashto on him or her.

Therefore, making artiste Y's overall performance is lackluster since they will go through serious pain usually in the form of rheumatism.

 

[Rachybae]

Please help with types of ngozi.

 

[Dziva]

Please help with types of ngozi

There is only one type of ngozi i.e. an avenging spirit that seeks retribution until the spirit thereof is appeased to settle the matter which of course is usually a case of someone being murdered.

 

[Munyaradzi Mafaro]

@Queen @Nolwazi Kwayedza isn't kutanda botso another type of an avenging spirit?

 

[Nolwazi Kwayedza]

@Queen @Nolwazi Kwayedza isn't kutanda botso another type of an avenging spirit?

Well, that depends on who you ask, I suppose.

But many people I have spoken to suggested the following:

Avenging Spirit (ngozi)	Cause
Type 1 ("conventional")	when a person commits first-degree murder
Type 2 ("marital")	when a person intentionally slaughters their spouse
Type 3 ("parental")	when a person kills their biological mother or father

Note: Kutanda botso it's essentially a way for a daughter or son to seek forgiveness for hitting or verbally insulting their biological mother with expletives by going through a humiliation ritual in which they wear dirty, tattered clothing or rags for a period of time and publicly declare to everyone they come across what they did wrong whilst walking around their neighborhood. Therefore, kutanda botso does not occur solely because of a murder.

 

[Nehanda]

Please help with types of ngozi.

@Nolwazi Kwayedza's table has one thing in common, i.e., homicide. And thus I think there is only one type of Ngozi. I don't see any major difference in why ngozi should be classified into different categories. Everything boils down to the idea that it is an avenging spirit out for vengeance.

 

[Mujaya]

I don't get why ngozi can be "inherited". Like, why would I have to repent for someone else's sin?

 

[Munyaradzi Mafaro]

I don't get why ngozi can be "inherited". Like, why would I have to repent for someone else's sin?

Exodus 20:5​

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Numbers 14:18​

The Lord is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Deuteronomy 5:9​

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,