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Beware of the Jenoun…! |
TRANCE AND EXTASIS : the religious mussems of the brotherhoods
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the Hamadscha, Aissaouwa, Gnaoua & Queen`Aisha Qandisha |
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On this page we will see the zaouwja’s of Sidi Ali Ben Hamdouch (patron of the Hamadscha’s) in the village of his name in the Zerhoun maintains in Morocco and of his servant-slave the saint Sidi Ahmed Dghughi (patron of the Dghughiyyin) Their mussems take place one week after the mouloud nabi – of the prophet Mohammed Take care: Be aware of the colours to wear. Black en red colours arouse the anger of the spirits… From far away you will hear the bendirs and the ensorcelling flutes … Outside the sanctuary the possesed people danse till they fall down in a coma… Here people are dancing in trance at the entrance of Sidi Ali
These famous mussems are forbidden
to visit for tourists – so tourist offices and officials give you never information. Officials consider them as
primitive and there exist a certain danger to by attacked by the possessed.
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An essential element of the practice of the brotherhoods is the ritual of healing in their sanctuaries (the zawja's).
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