1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: M Welcome to the Hidden Gin a production of I 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Minkey. A 3 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: brief morning before we get into this episode. This episode 4 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: includes language and refers to sexuality and sexual practices that 5 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: may be triggering or too mature for young audiences. I'll 6 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: be honest, I often get a bit uneasy with stories 7 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: about female gin and other kinds of malevolent female entities, 8 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: because there's no escaping the reality that historically women have 9 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: often warned the blame for things that go wrong in 10 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: a family or a community. If a couple can't have children, 11 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 1: it's because the wife is barren. If a husband goes astray, 12 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: it's because a wife couldn't keep them happy. Even if 13 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 1: a region is experiencing drought, somehow women managed to get blamed. 14 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: And if you don't believe me, just a few years ago, 15 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,479 Speaker 1: a Texas assemblywoman tweeted the Texas was in a long 16 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: period of drought until the governor signed an anti abortion law. Yes, 17 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 1: that was only one person, but she was just reflecting 18 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: the kinds of sentiments that have existed for centuries. And 19 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: that's why when I read about the kinds of terrible 20 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: things that female monsters are said to do. I can't 21 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: help but wonder maybe these stories just to mirror deeply 22 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: misogynistic attitudes about women in general. But then there's also 23 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: this possibility that maybe stories of powerful, supernatural female entities 24 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: are actually projections of the power and ability. Women wish 25 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: they had the power to control their lives and bodies, 26 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: the power to exact revenge on those who hurt them, 27 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: the power to strike error into societies that really help, 28 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: no fear of them or respect for them. Maybe these 29 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: stories are a warning of what could be unleashed if 30 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: and when there's finally a reckoning. My name is Robbia Chaudhry, 31 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: and I'll be your guide into the world of the 32 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: Hidden Gin. Welcome. You could say that vampires have come 33 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: a long way today. There are dozens of books, films, 34 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: and TV shows that have sort of endeared them to us. 35 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: Vampire comedies like What We Do in the Shadows are 36 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: a big hit, and thanks to the Twilight series, an 37 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,399 Speaker 1: entire generation of young people are open to vampire love affairs. 38 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: And I swear there's an entire section of vampire why 39 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: a lit in every bookstore I've ever been to. Vampires 40 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: are kind of cool, right, now they didn't, of course, 41 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: start out that way. The myth of creatures that crave 42 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: and survive on blood goes back thousands of years, is 43 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: found in nearly every culture, but seems to hail not 44 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,239 Speaker 1: from Europe but from further east. The earliest evidence we 45 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: have of any belief in blood suckers are shards of 46 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: Persian pottery dating back about four thousand years depicting demons 47 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: trying to drink the blood of men. We find from 48 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: the same region the tales of La must Do, a 49 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: word that means quote, she who erases in the language 50 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: spoken in ancient Assyria and Babylonia, La must Do was 51 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: a demonus, a monster that killed babies in the womb, 52 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: and that attacked healthy young men, sucking their blood and 53 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: rendering them infertile. Her image was as terrifying as her reputation. 54 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: She had the head of a woman, the body of 55 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: a beast, serpents in each hand, and suckled a dog 56 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: and a pig at her bosom. And there's not that 57 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: much distance between the legends about La must Do and 58 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: a horrifying she demon found in Jewish lore. Now you 59 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: may be wondering what any of these demonists has to 60 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: do with gin. But remember, the Gin are older than 61 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: human history, and they take on any in every form. 62 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 1: What one culture now calls a gin has been called 63 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: by many other names and other cultures, and in Jewish tradition, 64 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: we have evidence of belief in a creature that lines 65 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: up neatly with the Gin, the shed Them, which North 66 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: African Jews also referred to with euphemisms such as tata 67 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: the yellna our counterparts underground, or Jarndellna, our neighbors. According 68 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: to the Talmud, the shed them have attributes of both 69 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: angels and humans. In three ways, they are as angels. 70 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: They have wings like angels, fly from one end of 71 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: the world to the other like angels, and they know 72 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: what will be in the future like angels. And in 73 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: three ways they are as humans. They eat and drink 74 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: like humans, they multiply like humans, and they die like humans. 75 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: He won't be surprised to learn that the shed Them 76 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: live in dank, dirty and desolate places, with a particular 77 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: fondness for bathrooms, and that they can shape shift, changing 78 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: their appearance in any way they want, with one exception 79 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: they can't change their feet. Now these descriptions should ring 80 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: a Bell if you've heard our previous episodes, including the 81 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 1: first one in which we talked about Ashmodai, the mighty 82 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: demon Jin that King Solomon brought under his control. According 83 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: to the Talmud, Ashmodai was a shed Dim, and that 84 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: takes us back to one of many Jin origin stories. 85 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 1: In this story, the shed them were created from the 86 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: union of a demonus and the first man, Adam, and 87 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: that demonus is Lilith. Lilith has a rich Semitic history. 88 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: You might even call her the original vamp hire of 89 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: Jewish lore, and she is well documented in Rabbinic literature 90 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: as having been the intended ride of Adam. Some stories 91 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: say that Adam rejected her because she refused to be 92 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: a subservient sexual partner. Lilith believed that she and Adam 93 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: were created equal, and for that he rejected her. Full 94 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: of despair and indignation, Lilith abandoned Adam in heaven and 95 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: dove to Earth, fleeing deep into the ocean in a 96 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: complete rage. She didn't stay in the ocean, though. Three 97 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: angels were sent after her to coax her back, and 98 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: they found her by the Red Sea, where she was 99 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: a mating with other fallen Gin and bearing baby demons 100 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: and Isaiah. The Bible speaks of a dark wilderness, and 101 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 1: there wildcats shall meet with hyenas, goat demons shall call 102 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 1: to each other. There, too, Lilith shall repose and find 103 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: a place to rest. Lilith was not about to return 104 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: with the angels, though she told them, I was created 105 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: only to cause sickness to infants, and I am the 106 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 1: sworn enemy of pregnant women. The angels responded, we won't 107 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: let you go until you accept upon yourself that each day, 108 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: one hundred of your children will die. Lilith accepted the condition, 109 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: and for that reason, one hundred demons die every day, 110 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: but Lilith, who is immortal, can easily replace them, and 111 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: is thus considered by some to be the mother of 112 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: all gin. Lilith is also known to have a sexual 113 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: appetite that is never satisfied, which certainly helps with the 114 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: baby demon making pursuits. She took on many demonic lovers, 115 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: and some say she made it with Satan himself, But 116 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: along with her demon lovers, she sometimes chooses mortal lovers, 117 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: and yet another legend says she came across a mortal 118 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: wandering in the wilderness. Some one who had just murdered 119 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: his brother. It was Kane, the son of Adam, who 120 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: killed his brother Abel. Lilith showed Kine the life power 121 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: of blood, and they became lovers together, birthing hundreds of 122 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: dark souls, which is pretty sinister but ingenious revenge by 123 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: Lilith against Adam, the man who rejected her. Other tales 124 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: say that Lilith became the wife of the demon king Ashmadai. 125 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: Lilith was you see among the legions of Gin that 126 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: King Solomon took command over with his magical ring, which 127 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: he used to force the Gin to present themselves before him. 128 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: She appeared before him as a female figure with no limbs, 129 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: just a head and a torso, her hair ratty and ragged. 130 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: He commanded her to tell him who she was and 131 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: what she did, and she responded, By night, I sleep 132 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: not but go my rounds over all the world and 133 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: visit women in childbirth and diving. The hour I take 134 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: my stand, and if I am lucky, I strangle the child. 135 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 1: But if not, I retire to another place, for I 136 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 1: cannot a single night retire unsuccessful. And now hither Now 137 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: thither I roam, and to western parts I go my rounds. 138 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: But as it is, though thou hast sealed me round 139 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: with the ring of God, thou hast done nothing. I 140 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: am not standing before thee, and thou wilt not be 141 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: able to command me, for I have no work other 142 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: than the destruction of children, and making of their ears 143 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: to be deaf, and the working of evil to their eyes, 144 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: and the binding of their mouths with a bond, and 145 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: the ruin of their minds, and the painting of their bodies. 146 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: So while King Solomon was able to bind her for 147 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: a time, she eventually, like all the king's other enslaved jins, 148 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: found her freedom when he died, and she went right 149 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: back to hunting children. You might say Lilith really holds 150 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: a grudge like the she demon La must do. Lilith 151 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: is a sworn baby killer. Lilith doesn't even wait for 152 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: a baby's birth to begin attack King it. Her attempts 153 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: to harm human children begin when the child is in 154 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: the mother's womb, causing miscarriages and stillbirths, and if they 155 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: survive that, she pursues their debts for weeks after they're born, 156 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: sometimes causing them to fall sick and die, and other 157 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: times strangling them in a jealous rage, and in one 158 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: final act of revenge against mankind, Lilith also visits unwitting 159 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: men at night as they sleep, sexually violating them to 160 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: steal their seed and bear more demon children. You may 161 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: have heard of this creature the succubus. Turns out, that's 162 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: just Lilith. Unfortunately we can't escape Lilith. While women have 163 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: worn amulets and tied talisman and prayers around their babies 164 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: for protection against this Gin, these are flimsy guardians against 165 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: this vengeful spirit, and so this dance of revenge will 166 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: go on for eternity, because unlike other Gin, Lilith is immortal. 167 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: Lilith doesn't stand alone though. In the Jewish cosmology of 168 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: female demon gin, she's accompanied by three sisters, Nama, Agrith, 169 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: and Mahalath, who is said to be the queen of 170 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: the demons and married to the demon king Ashmadi. There is, 171 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: to be honest, a confusing intersection of all these female 172 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: and male Gin, a lot of hooking up between them. Imagine, 173 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,719 Speaker 1: if you will, a reality show where everyone has been 174 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: sexually involved with everyone else, kind of like a terrifying 175 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: Jersey Shore, just with lots of death and destruction, and 176 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: in all of these stories, the female gin often seemed 177 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: to have one mission, making lots of demon babies, and 178 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: that requires a lot of getting it on with other demons. 179 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: But these ladies don't just stick to one man. They 180 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: hook up with really anyone they please. So it's not 181 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: surprising that Lilith has in more recent times become a 182 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: symbol of women's sexual freedom and independence, although that's a 183 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: bit of a hard cell given her baby killing tendencies. 184 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: But if Lilith and her sisters inspired real life women 185 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: to claim power over their bodies, the opposite might be 186 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: true in the story of a real life Moroccan noblewoman 187 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,079 Speaker 1: that has inspired the tales of a powerful female jin 188 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: by the name of Aisha Candiya. According to one fifteenth 189 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: century legend, Aisha was a beautiful Moroccan woman from the 190 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: El Jadida region, which was at the time occupied by 191 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 1: the Portuguese. Her husband, part of the resistance, was killed 192 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: at the hands of Portuguese soldiers, and she vowed to 193 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: spend the rest of her life getting vengeance. In other 194 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: versions of the tale, Aisha herself was part of the resistance, 195 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: a warrior who one by one killed enemy soldiers Aisha 196 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: used her beauty to seduce a suspecting soldiers and officers 197 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: into dark corners where she could get them into compromising 198 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: and vulnerable positions. Once she had them where she wanted them, 199 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: she would pull out a long knife kept hidden in 200 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: her robes, slip their throats, and savagely mutilate their bodies. 201 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: She killed so many soldiers and was so elusive that 202 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: the occupiers started fearing her. Some even said she wasn't human. 203 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: She couldn't be given the things she was able to do, 204 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: They couldn't capture her. So in order to punish Aisha, 205 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: the Portuguese executed her entire family, which caused her to 206 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: flee into the jungle, overtaken by madness. But she didn't 207 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: stay in the jungle. Instead, they say, she began to 208 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: attack locals, young men in particular, and devour them. The 209 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 1: Aisha that was once a hero against the Portuguese had 210 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: now turned into a monster against her own people. And 211 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: it was this depravity that over the centuries, gave rise 212 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: to Aisha Condita the Jin know to every little and 213 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: girl in the region. Even today, she's so feared that 214 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: the mere mention of her name is forbidden because it 215 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: might invite her into your world. Some say that Aisha 216 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 1: Kandija the Jin is much more ancient than the fifteenth 217 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: century figure, that her very lineage is from one of 218 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: the seven great kings of the Jinn, schem Harush himself. 219 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: Other scholars and historians believe the legend of Aisha Kandija 220 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: hails to Canaanite cults whose temples included women called the 221 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: Kadeshah known as sacred prostitutes. Now, the practice of sacred prostitution, 222 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,239 Speaker 1: unfortunately much more common in history and across different societies, 223 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: going back as far as six thousand b c. Was 224 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: framed as an act of worship and even female sexual empowerment. 225 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: But here is a description of the practice as relaid 226 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. It compels every woman 227 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodity 228 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: and have intercourse with stranger at least once in her life. 229 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: Once a woman has taken her place there, she does 230 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: not go away to her home before some stranger has 231 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: cast money into her lap and had intercourse with her 232 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: outside the temple. It does not matter what some of 233 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: the money is. The woman will never refuse for that 234 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: would be a sin, the money being by this act 235 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: made sacred, so she follows the first man who casts 236 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged 237 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to 238 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: her home. Now, the question of empowerment of these women 239 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: is a bit questionable, given their inability to refuse any 240 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: man who approaches them, and pardon me for thinking this 241 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: feels a little more like exploitation than empowerment. Nonetheless, there's 242 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: no question between the connection of female sexuality and divinity 243 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: that these and other societies made, and the figure of 244 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: Kadisha pops up repeatedly. She goes from being a sacred 245 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: prostitute to worship in ancient Egypt as a goddish name. 246 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: Kadeshu Kadesha was not only a fertility goddess, she was 247 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: also a goddess of sexual pleasure and sacred ecstasy. The 248 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: likeliest scenario, then, and how the legend of the jinn 249 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: Aisha Kndicha emerged, is that multiple threads of beliefs came 250 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: together to forge the mythology that exists today. In the 251 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: region most closely associated with her, Morocco. In some areas 252 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: she's believed to be a siren like figure, and another 253 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: is more of an earth mother type, but in all 254 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: cases she's known to be a sexually ravenous gin not 255 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: unlike her mythical predecessors. Aisha Kndicha roams a wilderness near 256 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: bodies of water and northern Morocco, often the Cebu River, 257 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: but also in some of her other favorite haunts, grottos, 258 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: springs fountains, where she searches for her next victim, usually 259 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: a young man. They say she's tall, with large, alluring 260 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: eyes full lips, though she never smiles. Aisha Kndicha has 261 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: a flipped she was figured that can't be hidden in 262 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: the black carbons that she's draped in. Some say those 263 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: grapes are her own hair, jet black that has grown 264 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: so long it wraps around her body, and at times 265 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: when she's spotted, it's as she's emerging from the water 266 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 1: source she haunts, combing her long, wet black hair back 267 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: from her bare body. While she's feared for causing harm 268 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: to pregnant women. What Aisha Kandita is really known for 269 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: is her fearsome and violent lust, a lust so strong 270 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,160 Speaker 1: that her only real mission is to seduce men into 271 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 1: her bed, and once her victim has been intimate with her, 272 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: she reveals her true terrifying form. She's gargantuane with teeth 273 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: like knives, and hidden under the black folds are the 274 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: legs and feet of a camel. Not all of the 275 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: men who fall for her discover the truth of who 276 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 1: she is until it's too late, until they've already entered 277 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 1: into a sexual tryst with her, at which point he 278 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: can no longer reject her. He will either have to 279 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: become her sexual slave for life or risk being murdered 280 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: by her. Talk about a rock and a hard place. 281 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: Becoming her slave comes with dozens of conditions. Her new 282 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: man can only wear a dirty, ragged clothing that's green 283 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 1: or red or black. He can never cut his hair 284 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: or his fingernails, and he definitely can't cheat on her. 285 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 1: And if he rejects these conditions, tough conditions, and refuses them, 286 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: then he has to pay for it with his life. 287 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: And that's because I sha CONDITYA doesn't just satisfy her 288 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: sexual urges with her victims, she also satisfies her other 289 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: carnal drives. She drinks their blood and eats their flesh. 290 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: She is quite literally a man eater. Not all of 291 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: her victims end up dead, though some end up driven mad, 292 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 1: possessed by her, possessed with love and lust for her, 293 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: but unable to obtain her. They say that those who 294 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: seek her become married to her and her alone, unable 295 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 1: or unwilling to take interest in a human bride, and 296 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: in that way I should condi Ja has at any 297 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: given time thousands of lovers and husbands. But beyond her 298 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,479 Speaker 1: human husband's she's also married to Jen royalty to an 299 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: invincible Jin king by the name of Basha Hammou. Hamu's 300 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 1: weakness is blood, and so you'll find him at slaughterhouses, 301 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 1: but he also possesses people who then slashed their own 302 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 1: limbs to satisfy the Jin's desire. Aisha, Condisha and Hammu 303 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 1: quite a power couple, you could say, if we lean in, though, 304 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: what we see in stories about Aisha Kndija are layers 305 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: of lessons and warnings. A lesson on the power of 306 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: a woman's sexuality, but also what happens when the sexuality 307 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: of a woman isn't in check. Its spirals out of control, 308 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: lust turning into violence and even death. And it's also 309 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 1: warning to men to stay away from tempting beautiful women 310 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,479 Speaker 1: that you aren't married to, because for all you know, 311 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 1: she could be a cannibalistic jin. Engaging and forbidden sexual 312 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: trysts could literally be the death of you. And even 313 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: if she doesn't kill you, you could find yourself gone 314 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: mad with desire for her, wandering the earth the rest 315 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: of your days, seeking her, useless to the rest of 316 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: the world. So in that sense, it's almost a warning 317 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: against falling in love itself. It might seem that all 318 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: the female jin have a bad rap, sexually insatiable baby 319 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: killers and man eaters, but that's not exactly true. Just 320 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,120 Speaker 1: as there are good and evil humans, there are good 321 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: and evil gin and the good ones are often as 322 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 1: powerful as the not so good ones. In Morocco, where 323 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 1: we met Aisha Candia, we also meet La La Rakia 324 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: el Khammer, which translates to Lady Rekia, daughter of the 325 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: Red One. People seeking her blessings travel to the foot 326 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: of the Atlas Mountains to the enchanting town of Seffru, 327 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: located hours from the Moroccan capital of Rabat. Centuries ago, 328 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: Seffreu wasn't important trading city as well as an ancient 329 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: Jewish Berber settlement and Nestled in the western part of 330 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 1: the town is the Fountain of Lady Rerechia, a miraculous 331 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: fountains set to bring healing for both physical and mental ailments. 332 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: Those who believe in the powers of Lady Rerechia fill 333 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: up their jugs at her fountain, but most Moroccans don't 334 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,719 Speaker 1: have to go that far to find her. That's because 335 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 1: the abode of Lady Rerechia is the bath house. And 336 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:27,439 Speaker 1: I don't mean the room where you go to shower 337 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: in your house. I'm talking about the public bath house, 338 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: the hammam, which is ubiquitous in North African and Middle 339 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: Eastern cultures. Ham Moms are culturally, socially and religiously significant, 340 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: segregated by gender. The hammam is much more than a 341 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: shared pool of water, steam rooms, heated marble slabs, rigorous exfoliation, 342 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: cold showers. It's an entire series of pampering and cleansing rituals. 343 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: But beyond beautification and cleanliness, the hammons are kind of 344 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: like a local pub for full get together to linger 345 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 1: and trade gossip, albeit naked, relax with friends and neighbors, 346 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 1: and the hammam often even has a role in marriages, births, 347 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: even birthdays. Apparently there's nothing like water and naked people 348 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: to attract the wrong kind of gin, which is where 349 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: Lady Reky steps in. She's a queen in the gin world, 350 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: deeply respected for her wisdom and diplomatic skills, and she 351 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: lords over all the gin and every ham mom in 352 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: the world. She makes it her job to protect the 353 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: hammed bathers, but only if people request her permission to 354 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 1: enter the hammm ask for her protection and greet her 355 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 1: as they enter. Once in the hammam, Lady Rerekia guards 356 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 1: both men and women from malevolent beings who might otherwise 357 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: get too attached to abeather and follow them home or 358 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: whisper sinful thoughts and to obey the heart leading them 359 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: into forbidden acts and for the price of keeping peace 360 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: the hammam, Lady Rekia also demands to be thanked and 361 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 1: bid adieu while leaving. She loves offerings of oil, lamps, 362 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:05,880 Speaker 1: incense and perfumes too, especially on special occasions. You could 363 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: say she's a bit needy, but really, who among us 364 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: doesn't like to be valued and recognized for their work. 365 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: Now in the world of good versus bad Gin. There 366 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: is one that kind of toes the line. If you 367 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: remember back to earlier in the season, we mentioned one 368 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: jin that while we aren't able to shake. That's our 369 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 1: jin double, the one we're born with and die with, 370 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: the Corinne. And if you're a woman, well, your female 371 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 1: counterpart is the Carina. There was, however, an original Carina, 372 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: the one that birthed all the others that were stuck 373 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,400 Speaker 1: with today. It's believed that at the dawn of human creation, 374 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: that Carina was Adam's first wife, but was rejected by 375 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: him and later made it with Satan to produce legions 376 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: of baby gin ad infinitum. She nominally hated men, but 377 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 1: women too, and to punish both, she made children the 378 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 1: target of her fury, causing stillbirths and fatal illnesses and babies. 379 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: If she sounds like Lilith, you're exactly right. The original 380 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: Karna and Lilith are one and the same. So for 381 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 1: the ladies out there, the Carina that you carry with 382 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 1: you everywhere turns out that she's the daughter of the 383 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: mother of all the gin. Our personal Carina is also 384 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: sometimes called our or Shakika, both words that mean sister, 385 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: but this jin takes sibling rivalry to another level. She 386 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: carries a particular interest in the spouse of her human, 387 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 1: fueled maybe by jealousy of all the human beings she's 388 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: missing out on. She does her best to break up 389 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: the couple was to bring hateful thoughts in her humans ears, 390 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: poisoning her heart against her husband and urging her to 391 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: leave the marriage, which begs the question though, what if 392 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: he's just a truly terrible spouse? What if it's a 393 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: toxic or abuse of marriage? Does blaming a garna let 394 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: crappy husbands off the hook? Does it redirect blame back 395 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 1: to a woman to check herself health, to second guess 396 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: the thoughts that she has of leaving? But then, divorce 397 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: has always carried a heavy social stigma, especially in times 398 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 1: and places where women didn't have the agency to make 399 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:15,199 Speaker 1: such monumental decisions. Maybe, just maybe, the Carina gives a 400 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 1: woman in an unhappy marriage who might find it impossible 401 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: to leave otherwise away out and so Ladies, maybe, just 402 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 1: like their mother Lilith, the Corina are simply asserting power 403 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 1: that's long been kept from women. Speaking of power, there's 404 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 1: a fascinating female flip side to the world of Gin, 405 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: and it's not about the jinn themselves, It's about the 406 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: power of women in fighting the Gin. North African regions 407 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: are replete with female jin stories, but they're also replete 408 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: with the stories of the power of women themselves, women 409 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 1: who were able to trick the devil himself into giving 410 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: them power. According to the friend writer Aleene de Lenz, 411 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 1: who lived in Morocco in the early part of the 412 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: twentieth century, the oral tradition of how women of the 413 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 1: region came to their power goes like this. In antiquity, 414 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 1: old women wanted to seize the devil. What can we 415 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: do to attract him, they asked themselves. While the devil 416 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: always arrives during a dispute, So the old woman started 417 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: insulting each other and the devil arrived. Then the shouting 418 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 1: turned to sobbing. What's wrong, asked the devil. The old 419 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: woman responded, the devil is dead. The devil, confused, said 420 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 1: that is a lie. I am the devil, and the 421 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: old woman said, he is dead. We tell you you, 422 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: we don't know you, And the devil responded, I speak 423 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: the truth. If that's so, the old woman challenged him, 424 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: enter into this glass vial, and we will believe you. 425 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 1: And so the devil entered, and the women quickly put 426 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: a stopper on the vial. Let me out, he shouted, 427 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: by fire, we won't let you free, and so the 428 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:05,159 Speaker 1: devil berated them ditch a female camel's prostitutes, and the 429 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: old women rerated him. Back you one eyed person, possessor 430 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: of a single hair, And that made the devil reconsider, Oh, 431 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: my daughters, deliver me and I will help you. But 432 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: the women responded, helping you help anyone you the father 433 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: of evil, And the devil said, I will teach you 434 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,439 Speaker 1: how to prevail over men, and so the old women agreed, 435 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: and he taught them sorcery as well as the art 436 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: of curing illness. It said that since then Moroccan women 437 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: have been feared by some as sorceresses, having the knowledge 438 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: and power to not to subjugate and control men, keel sickness, 439 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: and fight the gin, but they also have the power 440 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 1: to control nature itself. One account of this comes to 441 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 1: us by way of doctor Emil Moauchamp. Doctor Moauchamp was 442 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: assigned by the French to establish his medical practice in 443 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 1: Marrakesh in nineteen o five as part of the French 444 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:04,360 Speaker 1: government's ploy deepen its hold on Morocco through providing healthcare. Yes, 445 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: that seems crazy, but believe it or not, they weren't 446 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 1: the only colonial power who has used such ploys. Mos 447 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 1: Schamp was one of many colonial observers in the region 448 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: who collected their own ethnographies, fascinated with local customs and traditions, 449 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: especially relating to magic and sorcery. He explained one point, 450 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 1: how to sorceress concocted a magic paste to be able 451 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 1: to control the moon itself. First, the sorceress would buy 452 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: a new kneading dish during the day, and then she 453 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,640 Speaker 1: would visit the home of all the gin with it, 454 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: the slaughterhouses, the toilets, cemeteries, the tombs of saints, as 455 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: well as synagogues and mosques, with a genie stand guard. 456 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: Then she takes the water of seven springs or covered wells, 457 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: and in the night of the full moon, between midnight 458 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: and one am, she darkens her right eye with call 459 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: let's blush on the right cheek, a bracelet on the 460 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: right arm and anklet on the right foot, and braids 461 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: a lock of her hair on the right Then she 462 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: goes alone to the cemetery, puts the dish on the ground, 463 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: strips naked, and runs holding a reed with a little 464 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 1: green flag attached, asking the spirits of darkness to make 465 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: the moon descend for her. In the dish she has 466 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 1: put the water of the seven fountains. Then one sees 467 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: the moon mount to its zenith and descend into the dish. 468 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 1: Immediately a storm is unleashed. The water phones and spills over, 469 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: and the sorceress collects this phone. At the same time, 470 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,480 Speaker 1: Benzoin and Coriander cook in a neighboring pot, and the 471 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: sorceress commands, I want you to serve me for good 472 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 1: and for evil. When the tub is full of foam, 473 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: the Sorceress puts out the incense fire and spills the 474 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 1: water on the ground, and the liberated moon rises slowly 475 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: into the sky. Now that is power. Unfortunately, formau Schamp 476 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: he wasn't able to like these stories for long. Less 477 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: than two years after arriving in Morocco, he was murdered 478 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: right outside his own clinic. His crime he raised a 479 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: pole or intent of some sort onto his roof, which 480 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: some locals feared meant he was a French spy connected 481 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: wirelessly through the pole to a a various network, but 482 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 1: I can't help but wonder if he just got on 483 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:27,239 Speaker 1: the wrong side of a sorceress. Thanks for joining us 484 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: this week. 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