Jump to: navigation, search	The Powers of the Chameleon The Zulu community is one of those communities with many beliefs. Some of the beliefs will be difficult to understand if you are not a Zulu culturally. But if one is afforded the opportunity of sitting next to a senior Zulu individual they will then see how serious the Zulu’s take these beliefs. Usually there is a history behind everything that the Zulu community believes. There are beliefs that are attached to a particular creature. Whether the creature is harmful or not the Zulu community shows a lot of respect towards that particular creature to an extent that some individuals might be afraid of such creatures. A Chameleon (unwabu in isiZulu) is one of the creatures that are respected by the Zulu community and usually you will find that most people are afraid of it. A Chameleon is well known for its inability to move fast and it also have the power of changing it's colour to the colour of anything that is in it's surrounding. It also possesses the power of striking anything that troubles it with it's lightening. These are the things that makes the Zulu community to respect it. The Zulus believe that once you anger a chameleon, to defend itself it will strike you with it's lightening. Some older people have witnessed many deaths that were the result of the chameleon’s lightening strike and the elders have confirmed that a chameleon's tongue possesses the lightening power.