A spirit medium claiming the identity of a Zaka man who allegedly died
nearly a decade ago manifested itself through a 24-year-old daughter
born out of wedlock, accusing its embittered aunt of casting a spell on
one of its surviving children.
The spirit medium identified itself as the late Crispen Mapurisa
Chidembo, started manifesting itself through Miriam Sondayi, last week
Wednesday, in Muchakagara Village in Nhedziwa, Chimanimani.
The incident came about as members of the Zion Apostolic Faith Mission Church conducted prayer sessions in the area.
The spirit medium had the guts of contacting our news crew, through its
hotline, demanding the presence of its versatile news crew at the
cleansing ceremony on Monday.
Though the journey had its hitches, the news crew managed to locate the appointed rendezvous.
On arrival at the Sondayi homestead, one could sense a sombre
atmosphere. The news team was at the receiving end of hostile family
members.
One Morris Sondayi, went a step further playing the family gatekeeper by demanding that The news crew reveal its source.
The head of the family Steven Sondayi told them that Miriam, while
under a trance, had hinted that the Press would be coming for the story.
Prophet Peter ‘Baba Peace' Khumbula, who was supposed to exorcise the
spirit medium took long to turn up, and after three hours of waiting,
that is from 1300hrs to 1600hrs, the avenging spirit pleaded with The
Reporters to be patient in order to get a clear understanding of the
saga.
"Before you leave, I need you to get to the bottom of this issue. My
name is Crispen Mapurisa Chidembo from Chapfuwa Village in Zaka.
"Ndiri kuda kuti vekwaSondayi vasunungure vana vangu. Kushungurudzika
kuri kuita mwana wangu ndiko kwati ndive pano. (I want my in-laws, the
Sondayi's to remove the spell cast on my children).
"My daughter is in trouble because of your charms. The Sondayi family
summoned me here. My daughter is now cursed because of your charms. They
are not coming from my side of the family and I want you to come out
clean," demanded Chidembo's avenging spirit.
Chidembo's spirit pointed Miriam's aunt — Tinotenda Sondayi — accusing her of crude bitterness and hatred.
The spirit further accused Tinotenda of causing misfortunes in his daughter's life.
"Iwe (pointing at Tinotenda Sondayi), uri kuziva bundu rauinaro. Iwe
wakasara uchinzi mai pavana uchapinda mudariro kuti ubvise zvawakaisa.
Pupura pamusoro pechigumbu chaunicho nehanzvanzi yako (Steven).
"Nyaya yepfuma handiyo yandiunza pano asi inyaya yechigumbu chakasunga
mai avo (Tinotenda). You are aware of your bitter grudge that you are
nursing against your brother Steven. You were left as the mother in
charge of the children.
"Yes, there is an issue concerning my daughter's bride price, but that
is not why I am here. I am here because of the bitterness that caused
you (Tinotenda) to cast a bad spell on my daughter," explained the
avenging spirit.
When asked to respond to the allegation, Tinotenda at first denied,
nursing any grudges against her brother. However, when pressed further
by family members, she owned up and confessed.
Her grudge stemmed from the manner Steven squandered all the money paid for Miriam's lobola.
"I was the one left as the mother of the children, but you squandered
all the bride price. I do not even know how much you got," Tinotenda
fumed at Steven, then seated by her side.
It was, however, resolved by the second eldest brother, Morris that
Steven pays damages (three goats) to Tinotenda to bury the hatchet.
Prophet Khumbula finally arrived around 5pm, midway the confession.
He performed cleansing rituals on Tinotenda and Miriam by tying two
porcupine spikes with red, green and white yarn to make a cross and then
poured some ointment oil into a dish of milk and started shouting in
some incoherent tongues.
He recovered some strange objects, which he claimed to be a warthog's
tooth in one of the bedrooms which used to be an old bedroom of
Tinotenda's son, Albert.
The other object, collected hidden in the roof, could not be discerned.
Prophet Khumbula said the aunt had incision marks (nyora) which he
vowed to remove on Tuesday to mark the completion of the cleansing
process.
"We will remove the incision marks on you tomorrow (Tuesday), but
please do not eat anything before coming to my shrine. You must bring a
black and a white hen coupled with a white cloth and sand from a
crossroad. There is an evil spirit on you that must be cleansed," said
Prophet Khumbula.
The spirit medium, which was interjecting throughout the cleansing
ceremony, expressed optimism that all the troubles would come to pass
with the exposure of the truth.
Chidembo never formally married to the Sondayis.
He sired two children with the late Snikiwe (Miriam's mother).
His alleged spirit medium started manifesting itself on Miriam in May 2014.
Then it was demanding that his in-laws surrender his two children to
his Zaka-based family, so that they become vested with their ancestry.
The Sondayis complied with the demand.
The children were welcomed by the Chidembos and all was well until last week Wednesday when the spirit resurfaced.
The spirit's host, Miriam, has not been eating or drinking water since last Wednesday.
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