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75 snakes of different types captured at family cleansing ritual
24 May 2015 at 19:23hrs | Views
Bishop Trynos Mapuranga (centre) prays for congregants during one of his sessions in Marange
IN broad daylight while in a trance and armed with his "holy water", Bishop Trynos Mapuranga scuttles from one end to the other as he spurts the sanctified liquid all over Willie Mutasa's homestead in Chipfatsura Village, Marange.
About a few yards from the main house, but within the yard, he takes out a rod which he places at the entrance of a hole he perceives as the hideout for a snake that has caused decades of untold suffering to the Mutasa family's female members.
Frantically, he dashes straight to the main house and orders the grey-haired Willie Mutasa to lift a bamboo-woven basket that was in the kitchen and to the surprise of all and sundry who were present, they found a coiled three-metre long python.
After numerous attempts by different religious persons and traditional healers, the reptile was eventually captured and burnt, much to the relief of the Mutasa female members who were going through hell on earth spanning over almost two decades owing to sexual shenanigans unleashed on them by the python.
This is one of the many "home cleansing" rituals Bishop Mapuranga has been conducting in the Marange area since his arrival barely two months ago.
In fact, inside the two months that he has been in the Marange area, Bishop Mapuranga has so far cleansed a total of 75 homes where snakes of different types and sizes, bred by locals for different reasons, have been captured.
Maybe because of the arid conditions in the Marange area, many turn to voodoo to make wealth, while some acquire snakes or goblins simply for the sake of wanting to be feared in the community.
However, the charms on numerous occasions end up troubling the owner and or his family members.
Apart from snakes, Bishop Mapuranga has also exposed and destroyed goblins that were owned and fed by individuals in the Marange area.
"We keep a record of our operations and so far we have helped 75 households in this area.
"We have had four cases of people who kept snakes, but in most of the homes that we cleansed we exposed and destroyed goblins," said Bishop Mapuranga in a recent interview.
The Kutenda Kwavapostori Church founder and leader said they were a Christian-based organisation that recognises and values the word of God as espoused in the Holy Bible.
"We are a Christian-based organisation and we believe in the Bible.
"We do not impose ourselves on the people, but in most cases we are invited to help those who would have suffered a lot because of goblins or snakes acquired by their family members.
"We are different from the Tsikamutandas because we prioritise the word of God. Our aim is to help people and bring them back to the Lord.
"Whenever we have our revivals, we fight the spirits of darkness and that explains why we also restore sight to the blind and chase away demons that cause madness," said Bishop Mapuranga.
The four snakes that the man of the cloth captured in Marange were two pythons, a cobra and another one known as Ndara in vernacular.
The Kutenda KwaVapostora Church leader, whose church has since spread to areas such as Marondera, Buhera, Chipinge, Rusape, Beitbridge and Musina in South Africa, said they use "holy water" and not anointing oil in their operations.
"I use holy water that we get from a mountain in Mberengwa.
"The place is holy and one cannot easily get to that place. One of the purposes of using holy water is to ensure that if we are looking for a snake it will not change.
"Many times, people who try to help in exposing and destroying snakes fail because when the snake senses danger, it can change into something else.
"Remember these are powers of darkness.
"So with the holy water one is guaranteed that it gets weak and easy to capture," said the church leader, who saw his Kutenda KwaVapostora denomination grow in leaps and bounds since its inception in Gushure Village in Rusape back in 2008.
"We are happy that we are growing as a church because of the good works that we have been doing.
"We started from humble beginnings after a nine-year old boy went into a trance while we were still part of Zvishamiso ZveVapostora Church.
"The boy told the congregation that he had seen a vision in which I was a leader of a church called Kutenda KweVapostora.
"From there on, we have never looked back," he added.
Exorcism is the religious or spiritual practice of purportedly evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person or an area they are believed to have possessed.
In some religions, an exorcist is a person who is believed to be able to cast out the devil or other demons.
A priest, a nun, a monk, a healer, a shaman or other specially prepared or instructed person can be an exorcist.
An exorcist is a person who performs the ridding of demons or other supernatural beings who are alleged to have possessed a person, or (sometimes) a building or even an object.
About a few yards from the main house, but within the yard, he takes out a rod which he places at the entrance of a hole he perceives as the hideout for a snake that has caused decades of untold suffering to the Mutasa family's female members.
Frantically, he dashes straight to the main house and orders the grey-haired Willie Mutasa to lift a bamboo-woven basket that was in the kitchen and to the surprise of all and sundry who were present, they found a coiled three-metre long python.
After numerous attempts by different religious persons and traditional healers, the reptile was eventually captured and burnt, much to the relief of the Mutasa female members who were going through hell on earth spanning over almost two decades owing to sexual shenanigans unleashed on them by the python.
This is one of the many "home cleansing" rituals Bishop Mapuranga has been conducting in the Marange area since his arrival barely two months ago.
In fact, inside the two months that he has been in the Marange area, Bishop Mapuranga has so far cleansed a total of 75 homes where snakes of different types and sizes, bred by locals for different reasons, have been captured.
Maybe because of the arid conditions in the Marange area, many turn to voodoo to make wealth, while some acquire snakes or goblins simply for the sake of wanting to be feared in the community.
However, the charms on numerous occasions end up troubling the owner and or his family members.
Apart from snakes, Bishop Mapuranga has also exposed and destroyed goblins that were owned and fed by individuals in the Marange area.
"We keep a record of our operations and so far we have helped 75 households in this area.
"We have had four cases of people who kept snakes, but in most of the homes that we cleansed we exposed and destroyed goblins," said Bishop Mapuranga in a recent interview.
The Kutenda Kwavapostori Church founder and leader said they were a Christian-based organisation that recognises and values the word of God as espoused in the Holy Bible.
"We are a Christian-based organisation and we believe in the Bible.
"We do not impose ourselves on the people, but in most cases we are invited to help those who would have suffered a lot because of goblins or snakes acquired by their family members.
"We are different from the Tsikamutandas because we prioritise the word of God. Our aim is to help people and bring them back to the Lord.
"Whenever we have our revivals, we fight the spirits of darkness and that explains why we also restore sight to the blind and chase away demons that cause madness," said Bishop Mapuranga.
The four snakes that the man of the cloth captured in Marange were two pythons, a cobra and another one known as Ndara in vernacular.
The Kutenda KwaVapostora Church leader, whose church has since spread to areas such as Marondera, Buhera, Chipinge, Rusape, Beitbridge and Musina in South Africa, said they use "holy water" and not anointing oil in their operations.
"I use holy water that we get from a mountain in Mberengwa.
"The place is holy and one cannot easily get to that place. One of the purposes of using holy water is to ensure that if we are looking for a snake it will not change.
"Many times, people who try to help in exposing and destroying snakes fail because when the snake senses danger, it can change into something else.
"Remember these are powers of darkness.
"So with the holy water one is guaranteed that it gets weak and easy to capture," said the church leader, who saw his Kutenda KwaVapostora denomination grow in leaps and bounds since its inception in Gushure Village in Rusape back in 2008.
"We are happy that we are growing as a church because of the good works that we have been doing.
"We started from humble beginnings after a nine-year old boy went into a trance while we were still part of Zvishamiso ZveVapostora Church.
"The boy told the congregation that he had seen a vision in which I was a leader of a church called Kutenda KweVapostora.
"From there on, we have never looked back," he added.
Exorcism is the religious or spiritual practice of purportedly evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person or an area they are believed to have possessed.
In some religions, an exorcist is a person who is believed to be able to cast out the devil or other demons.
A priest, a nun, a monk, a healer, a shaman or other specially prepared or instructed person can be an exorcist.
An exorcist is a person who performs the ridding of demons or other supernatural beings who are alleged to have possessed a person, or (sometimes) a building or even an object.
Source - herald
