Paper 1 · The Spirit World and Ancestors
In indigenous belief, the most common way in which an ancestor makes contact with a living relative is...
Aby appearing to the relative in a dream with an instruction
Bby moving the divining bones while they lie on the mat
Cby leaving a mark on the wall of the family kitchen
Dby speaking through the chief at the monthly village court
Explanation: Dreams are the ordinary and most widely available channel, in which an ancestor gives a warning, a rebuke, an instruction or the name of a child to be born. Possession and divination are the specialist channels; dreams need no practitioner at all.
Derived from ZIMSEC Family and Religious Studies Paper 1, November 2021, Q2