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| Title: | Mteu - the supreme court of the Mashona |
| Author: | Howman, R. |
| Year: | 1935 |
| Periodical: | Nada: The Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs Department Annual |
| Issue: | 13 |
| Pages: | 23-25 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
| Subjects: | Shona witchcraft |
| Abstract: | Witchcraft, an abhorred crime, cannot be tried by judicial process as it is due to unseen forces, Mana. The Mteu Ordeal among the Mashona tribes consists in using as a test of guilty of something which is thought to be filled with Mana. It is quite infallible, and is a certain means of discovering whether a person is, consciously or inconsciously, working against the well-being of Society. This article gives a description of the Mteu Ordeal as it obtains amongst the Wakorekore. |