Hwanga

Hwanga kana uroyi (poison) mushonga unoshandiswa kukuvadza kana kuuraya vanhu.

Kurerutsa Mutauro

• Mombe dzakadya chepfu ndokufuma dzakati chinjinji: the cattle ate poison and in the morning they were Iying dead with legs in the air.

Tsumo

• Mushonga haubati pasina ronda. Medicine does not work where there is no wound.

Mitauro yeBantu

• VaTonga vanoti bwanga (n. poison) kureva hwanga.
• Herero inoti ouanga kureva hwanga. Fwe inoti jefu kureva chefu.
• Kimbundu inoti uanga (n. poison, spell, witchcraft).
• Umbundu inoti owanga (charm, fetish). Benga inoti bwanga (n. medicine).
• Bemba inoti uhwanga (n. charm, spell) kureva hwanga.
• Lenje vanoti wuanga kana wanga (drugs, medicines, poison).
• Swahili vanoti anga kana wanga (bewitch, enchant, cast a spell).
• Nyaneka inoti ouanga (n. poison, spell, witchcraft; charm) kureva hwanga.