Lalla Rekya Bint El Khamar
Also known as: Lalla Ruqya; Lalla Raqya; Lalla Rkia
Origin: Morocco
Classification: Djinn
Lalla Rekya Bint El Khamar (literally Lady Rekya Daughter of the Red One), is a Queen of Djinn who presides over bathhouses and fresh water springs. Lalla Rekya may be Lalla Mira’s sister. Lalla Rekya rules the Djinn who live in or frequent the hammam (bathhouse; among the Djinn’s favorite haunts). She is a diplomatic, mediating Djinn who maintains spiritual peace. (The hammam is integral to Islam but also to non-Islamic spirits.)
She is a benevolent Djinn who serves as a guardian of women in the hammam. She is invoked for protection by women against any malevolent Djinn lurking in the bathhouse. Lalla Rekya is greeted upon entering the hammam and her protection requested. She is thanked when leaving and bid goodbye. Babies are traditionally brought to the hammam on or near their first birthday and formally introduced to Lalla Rekya amidst celebrating and feasting. An oil lamp with twelve floating wicks is lit in her honor. (Indicating that this is a special occasion; usually she’s given seven wicks.)
Lalla Rekya also heals menstrual and reproductive disorders and is petitioned for fertility.
Color: Red
Sacred sites: Lalla Rekya lives in the bathhouse. All of them. She also presides over a miraculous healing spring named in her honor in Sefrou in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Her spring allegedly cures madness and mental illness. An annual festival is held in her honor.
Offerings: Lalla Rekya receives offerings at night. Traditional offerings include menara (small clay vessels used as oil lamps) with seven wicks; incense and perfume. That’s why in muslim tradition is to read special verse from the quran before and after going to the market or the bath areas. The roqya reading is help to protect against her.
Mimoun, Sidi the black jinn
Origin: Morocco
Classification: Djinn; Melk /king – black color
Sidi Mimoun, King of Djinn, may have traveled from Guinea to Morocco with the ancestors of the Gnawa. Because he is a king, Sidi Mimoun is able to restrain, exorcise, or control other Djinn. Sidi Mimoun is invoked during healing rituals by the Gnawa Brotherhood. He causes and heals seizure disorders including epilepsy. He is also associated with hysterical disorders and mental illness.
Sid Mimoun is the Black Melk. His emblem is a black veil, which demarcates his sacred space. When requesting his assistance, toss a black veil over the person requiring healing. Sidi Mimoun is also invoked to protect children. best days on saturday and sunday ,Place the baby or child for whom you seek protection under a black veil when requesting help from Sidi Mimoun. again this is the history of magic and jinn I do not ask no one but God the only one who created them all for help. But so sad to see some people in Egypt, morocco and some part of africa still practicing this to ask the jinn for help instead asking God himself.
Consort: Lalla Mimouna ; Lalla Mimouna lives in wells and deserted houses. She likes to seduce traveling men but will attack both men and women. Lalla Mimouna is married to Sidi Mimoun. She has a sanctuary in Marrakech.
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A Zagaz is a Djinn held responsible for the deaths of infants. Dr. Françoise Legey, author of The Folklore of Morocco, a medical practitioner who oversaw hospitals in Algiers and Morocco identifies Zagaz as the spirit of infantile tetanus.
Zagaz is counteracted by magically powerful but extremely poisonous plants like oleander and colocynthis. Rituals must be performed with extreme caution; powders and incense are concocted by skilled shamans, not amateurs or beginners.
Rituals against Zagaz are performed at the end of pregnancy, in the birthing room, and after the birth. • A powder ground from virtually all the magical and medicinal herbs sold by an herbalist is burned, as the aroma allegedly repulses Zagaz.
• Powdered colocynthis and oleander are sprinkled in the corners of the birthing room, lest he be lurking in the shadows.
• Following birth, the midwife/shaman sprinkles a blend of asafoetida and oleander powder on the placenta, which she then buries in the cemetery, announcing, “I’m not burying you, Afterbirth. I’m burying Zagaz!”
• A blend of alum and harmala (Peganum harmala, also called Syrian rue) is burned as incense. The mother or midwife passes her right hand through the smoke three times and then lays her hand on the infant’s head.
• The baby is covered with a black veil and the protection of Sidi Mimoun, King of Djinn is invoked. See also: Djinn; Mimoun, Sidi
Steve Ramsey.
Paranormal expert, researcher and investigator .
Alberta – Canada