Muvhetho - THE THRASHING This is sometimes described in the plural form (mivhetho). Ceremonial thrashing seems to be a common feature of initiation schools in southern Africa. The girls are made to trash each other as hard as possible with banana stalks. In this context, a stalk is called hamu mudia- (the stick that strikes the heifers, i.e. the young girls).

Novices thrash each other with banana stalks.

Lesson When a girl begins to have complete intercourse (and not merely the external -), it will be painful and tiring.

	Milayo
265	Muvhetho ndi na misidzana: ndi musi vho vhingana. Musi vha tshi lala , a tshi vuwa nga matshelo, u vuwa o rama. The thrashing refers to a youth and a girl: when they are married. When they sleep together, and she gets up in the morning, she will get up feeling limp.
266	hamu: ndi midia- the sticks: that is, the strikers of heifers	Nnyo dza vhathannga the youths' penes.

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