Chapter 6 Summary

Masvita tells the girls in the sleeping hut that her father is sending for the muvuki to find the witch responsible for the cholera. After the girls discuss this for a while, Nhamo declares that they don't need the muvuki, which results in another girl, Tazviona, saying that Nhamo or at least her mother might be a witch. They get into a fight, a lamp gets turned over and catches a sleeping mat on fire, and the two girls are punished. Aunt Chipo whips Nhamo and locks her in a storage hut. There Nhamo talks to her mother, whose voice tells her she is proud Nhamo stuck up for her.

More people in the village begin to die; the cholera has become epidemic. Aunt Shuvai dies. Masvita gets very sick, but manages to survive, as does Aunt Chipo. Grandmother remains surprisingly well, and...