WEBVTT - I Dream Of Djinniya 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:06.480 M Welcome to the Hidden Gin a production of I 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:30.600 Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Minkey. A 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.400 brief morning before we get into this episode. This episode 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.680 includes language and refers to sexuality and sexual practices that 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:43.960 may be triggering or too mature for young audiences. I'll 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.920 be honest, I often get a bit uneasy with stories 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.640 about female gin and other kinds of malevolent female entities, 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:55.160 because there's no escaping the reality that historically women have 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.720 often warned the blame for things that go wrong in 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.160 a family or a community. If a couple can't have children, 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.400 it's because the wife is barren. If a husband goes astray, 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.640 it's because a wife couldn't keep them happy. Even if 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.560 a region is experiencing drought, somehow women managed to get blamed. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.119 And if you don't believe me, just a few years ago, 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.479 a Texas assemblywoman tweeted the Texas was in a long 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:23.840 period of drought until the governor signed an anti abortion law. Yes, 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.400 that was only one person, but she was just reflecting 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.520 the kinds of sentiments that have existed for centuries. And 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.000 that's why when I read about the kinds of terrible 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.119 things that female monsters are said to do. I can't 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.400 help but wonder maybe these stories just to mirror deeply 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:43.560 misogynistic attitudes about women in general. But then there's also 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:48.920 this possibility that maybe stories of powerful, supernatural female entities 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.440 are actually projections of the power and ability. Women wish 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.560 they had the power to control their lives and bodies, 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.760 the power to exact revenge on those who hurt them, 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.000 the power to strike error into societies that really help, 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.800 no fear of them or respect for them. Maybe these 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.280 stories are a warning of what could be unleashed if 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:14.160 and when there's finally a reckoning. My name is Robbia Chaudhry, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.600 and I'll be your guide into the world of the 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:32.400 Hidden Gin. Welcome. You could say that vampires have come 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.560 a long way today. There are dozens of books, films, 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.079 and TV shows that have sort of endeared them to us. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.080 Vampire comedies like What We Do in the Shadows are 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.040 a big hit, and thanks to the Twilight series, an 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.399 entire generation of young people are open to vampire love affairs. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.160 And I swear there's an entire section of vampire why 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.240 a lit in every bookstore I've ever been to. Vampires 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.480 are kind of cool, right, now they didn't, of course, 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.639 start out that way. The myth of creatures that crave 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.320 and survive on blood goes back thousands of years, is 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.520 found in nearly every culture, but seems to hail not 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.239 from Europe but from further east. The earliest evidence we 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.080 have of any belief in blood suckers are shards of 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.600 Persian pottery dating back about four thousand years depicting demons 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.919 trying to drink the blood of men. We find from 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.760 the same region the tales of La must Do, a 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:33.040 word that means quote, she who erases in the language 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.920 spoken in ancient Assyria and Babylonia, La must Do was 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.080 a demonus, a monster that killed babies in the womb, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.400 and that attacked healthy young men, sucking their blood and 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:48.440 rendering them infertile. Her image was as terrifying as her reputation. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.040 She had the head of a woman, the body of 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.680 a beast, serpents in each hand, and suckled a dog 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.440 and a pig at her bosom. And there's not that 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.160 much distance between the legends about La must Do and 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.840 a horrifying she demon found in Jewish lore. Now you 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.920 may be wondering what any of these demonists has to 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.680 do with gin. But remember, the Gin are older than 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.520 human history, and they take on any in every form. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.720 What one culture now calls a gin has been called 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.320 by many other names and other cultures, and in Jewish tradition, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.520 we have evidence of belief in a creature that lines 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.320 up neatly with the Gin, the shed Them, which North 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.839 African Jews also referred to with euphemisms such as tata 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:40.320 the yellna our counterparts underground, or Jarndellna, our neighbors. According 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.840 to the Talmud, the shed them have attributes of both 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:47.200 angels and humans. In three ways, they are as angels. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.400 They have wings like angels, fly from one end of 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.160 the world to the other like angels, and they know 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.880 what will be in the future like angels. And in 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.839 three ways they are as humans. They eat and drink 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:03.200 like humans, they multiply like humans, and they die like humans. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.280 He won't be surprised to learn that the shed Them 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.040 live in dank, dirty and desolate places, with a particular 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.520 fondness for bathrooms, and that they can shape shift, changing 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.719 their appearance in any way they want, with one exception 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.320 they can't change their feet. Now these descriptions should ring 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.719 a Bell if you've heard our previous episodes, including the 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:27.599 first one in which we talked about Ashmodai, the mighty 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:32.120 demon Jin that King Solomon brought under his control. According 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:36.640 to the Talmud, Ashmodai was a shed Dim, and that 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.880 takes us back to one of many Jin origin stories. 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.360 In this story, the shed them were created from the 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.760 union of a demonus and the first man, Adam, and 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:57.920 that demonus is Lilith. Lilith has a rich Semitic history. 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.360 You might even call her the original vamp hire of 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:04.200 Jewish lore, and she is well documented in Rabbinic literature 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:08.880 as having been the intended ride of Adam. Some stories 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.640 say that Adam rejected her because she refused to be 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.719 a subservient sexual partner. Lilith believed that she and Adam 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:20.279 were created equal, and for that he rejected her. Full 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.159 of despair and indignation, Lilith abandoned Adam in heaven and 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.960 dove to Earth, fleeing deep into the ocean in a 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.839 complete rage. She didn't stay in the ocean, though. Three 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.800 angels were sent after her to coax her back, and 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.160 they found her by the Red Sea, where she was 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.560 a mating with other fallen Gin and bearing baby demons 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.880 and Isaiah. The Bible speaks of a dark wilderness, and 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:50.039 there wildcats shall meet with hyenas, goat demons shall call 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:54.279 to each other. There, too, Lilith shall repose and find 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:58.599 a place to rest. Lilith was not about to return 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.400 with the angels, though she told them, I was created 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.880 only to cause sickness to infants, and I am the 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:09.279 sworn enemy of pregnant women. The angels responded, we won't 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.520 let you go until you accept upon yourself that each day, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:18.320 one hundred of your children will die. Lilith accepted the condition, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.040 and for that reason, one hundred demons die every day, 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:26.160 but Lilith, who is immortal, can easily replace them, and 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.680 is thus considered by some to be the mother of 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.560 all gin. Lilith is also known to have a sexual 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:36.280 appetite that is never satisfied, which certainly helps with the 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.520 baby demon making pursuits. She took on many demonic lovers, 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.920 and some say she made it with Satan himself, But 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.760 along with her demon lovers, she sometimes chooses mortal lovers, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.840 and yet another legend says she came across a mortal 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.480 wandering in the wilderness. Some one who had just murdered 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.880 his brother. It was Kane, the son of Adam, who 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.400 killed his brother Abel. Lilith showed Kine the life power 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.800 of blood, and they became lovers together, birthing hundreds of 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:12.000 dark souls, which is pretty sinister but ingenious revenge by 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:16.560 Lilith against Adam, the man who rejected her. Other tales 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.760 say that Lilith became the wife of the demon king Ashmadai. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.560 Lilith was you see among the legions of Gin that 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.920 King Solomon took command over with his magical ring, which 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:31.280 he used to force the Gin to present themselves before him. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.320 She appeared before him as a female figure with no limbs, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.160 just a head and a torso, her hair ratty and ragged. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.000 He commanded her to tell him who she was and 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:47.800 what she did, and she responded, By night, I sleep 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.520 not but go my rounds over all the world and 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.800 visit women in childbirth and diving. The hour I take 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.280 my stand, and if I am lucky, I strangle the child. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.680 But if not, I retire to another place, for I 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:05.559 cannot a single night retire unsuccessful. And now hither Now 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:10.000 thither I roam, and to western parts I go my rounds. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.520 But as it is, though thou hast sealed me round 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.120 with the ring of God, thou hast done nothing. I 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.080 am not standing before thee, and thou wilt not be 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.280 able to command me, for I have no work other 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.160 than the destruction of children, and making of their ears 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.200 to be deaf, and the working of evil to their eyes, 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.080 and the binding of their mouths with a bond, and 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.480 the ruin of their minds, and the painting of their bodies. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.400 So while King Solomon was able to bind her for 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.480 a time, she eventually, like all the king's other enslaved jins, 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.800 found her freedom when he died, and she went right 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:51.280 back to hunting children. You might say Lilith really holds 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.000 a grudge like the she demon La must do. Lilith 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.480 is a sworn baby killer. Lilith doesn't even wait for 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.440 a baby's birth to begin attack King it. Her attempts 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.800 to harm human children begin when the child is in 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.920 the mother's womb, causing miscarriages and stillbirths, and if they 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.680 survive that, she pursues their debts for weeks after they're born, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.280 sometimes causing them to fall sick and die, and other 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.360 times strangling them in a jealous rage, and in one 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:24.160 final act of revenge against mankind, Lilith also visits unwitting 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.960 men at night as they sleep, sexually violating them to 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.280 steal their seed and bear more demon children. You may 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.760 have heard of this creature the succubus. Turns out, that's 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:41.880 just Lilith. Unfortunately we can't escape Lilith. While women have 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.520 worn amulets and tied talisman and prayers around their babies 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.800 for protection against this Gin, these are flimsy guardians against 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:53.720 this vengeful spirit, and so this dance of revenge will 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:58.760 go on for eternity, because unlike other Gin, Lilith is immortal. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.440 Lilith doesn't stand alone though. In the Jewish cosmology of 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:24.400 female demon gin, she's accompanied by three sisters, Nama, Agrith, 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.000 and Mahalath, who is said to be the queen of 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:31.440 the demons and married to the demon king Ashmadi. There is, 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.640 to be honest, a confusing intersection of all these female 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:38.280 and male Gin, a lot of hooking up between them. Imagine, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.719 if you will, a reality show where everyone has been 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.360 sexually involved with everyone else, kind of like a terrifying 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.120 Jersey Shore, just with lots of death and destruction, and 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.640 in all of these stories, the female gin often seemed 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.800 to have one mission, making lots of demon babies, and 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.600 that requires a lot of getting it on with other demons. 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.160 But these ladies don't just stick to one man. They 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.360 hook up with really anyone they please. So it's not 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.600 surprising that Lilith has in more recent times become a 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.400 symbol of women's sexual freedom and independence, although that's a 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.120 bit of a hard cell given her baby killing tendencies. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.440 But if Lilith and her sisters inspired real life women 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.679 to claim power over their bodies, the opposite might be 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.680 true in the story of a real life Moroccan noblewoman 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.079 that has inspired the tales of a powerful female jin 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:33.200 by the name of Aisha Candiya. According to one fifteenth 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.640 century legend, Aisha was a beautiful Moroccan woman from the 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.040 El Jadida region, which was at the time occupied by 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:44.079 the Portuguese. Her husband, part of the resistance, was killed 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.240 at the hands of Portuguese soldiers, and she vowed to 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.360 spend the rest of her life getting vengeance. In other 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.280 versions of the tale, Aisha herself was part of the resistance, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:58.360 a warrior who one by one killed enemy soldiers Aisha 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.640 used her beauty to seduce a suspecting soldiers and officers 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.200 into dark corners where she could get them into compromising 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:09.160 and vulnerable positions. Once she had them where she wanted them, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.720 she would pull out a long knife kept hidden in 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.760 her robes, slip their throats, and savagely mutilate their bodies. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.560 She killed so many soldiers and was so elusive that 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:23.880 the occupiers started fearing her. Some even said she wasn't human. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.000 She couldn't be given the things she was able to do, 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.360 They couldn't capture her. So in order to punish Aisha, 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.240 the Portuguese executed her entire family, which caused her to 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.800 flee into the jungle, overtaken by madness. But she didn't 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.800 stay in the jungle. Instead, they say, she began to 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:47.360 attack locals, young men in particular, and devour them. The 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.319 Aisha that was once a hero against the Portuguese had 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.880 now turned into a monster against her own people. And 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.880 it was this depravity that over the centuries, gave rise 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.280 to Aisha Condita the Jin know to every little and 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.720 girl in the region. Even today, she's so feared that 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.520 the mere mention of her name is forbidden because it 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.480 might invite her into your world. Some say that Aisha 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.680 Kandija the Jin is much more ancient than the fifteenth 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.040 century figure, that her very lineage is from one of 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.840 the seven great kings of the Jinn, schem Harush himself. 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.920 Other scholars and historians believe the legend of Aisha Kandija 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:29.400 hails to Canaanite cults whose temples included women called the 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:36.040 Kadeshah known as sacred prostitutes. Now, the practice of sacred prostitution, 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.239 unfortunately much more common in history and across different societies, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.960 going back as far as six thousand b c. Was 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.680 framed as an act of worship and even female sexual empowerment. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.000 But here is a description of the practice as relaid 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:56.360 by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. It compels every woman 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.720 of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodity 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.160 and have intercourse with stranger at least once in her life. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.920 Once a woman has taken her place there, she does 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.840 not go away to her home before some stranger has 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.800 cast money into her lap and had intercourse with her 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.760 outside the temple. It does not matter what some of 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.320 the money is. The woman will never refuse for that 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.360 would be a sin, the money being by this act 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.400 made sacred, so she follows the first man who casts 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.080 it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.760 her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:35.240 her home. Now, the question of empowerment of these women 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.360 is a bit questionable, given their inability to refuse any 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.160 man who approaches them, and pardon me for thinking this 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.440 feels a little more like exploitation than empowerment. Nonetheless, there's 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.400 no question between the connection of female sexuality and divinity 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.480 that these and other societies made, and the figure of 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.200 Kadisha pops up repeatedly. She goes from being a sacred 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.920 prostitute to worship in ancient Egypt as a goddish name. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:04.400 Kadeshu Kadesha was not only a fertility goddess, she was 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:09.080 also a goddess of sexual pleasure and sacred ecstasy. The 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.080 likeliest scenario, then, and how the legend of the jinn 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.920 Aisha Kndicha emerged, is that multiple threads of beliefs came 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.240 together to forge the mythology that exists today. In the 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:24.560 region most closely associated with her, Morocco. In some areas 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.240 she's believed to be a siren like figure, and another 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.000 is more of an earth mother type, but in all 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.920 cases she's known to be a sexually ravenous gin not 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:39.000 unlike her mythical predecessors. Aisha Kndicha roams a wilderness near 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.720 bodies of water and northern Morocco, often the Cebu River, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.440 but also in some of her other favorite haunts, grottos, 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.520 springs fountains, where she searches for her next victim, usually 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.400 a young man. They say she's tall, with large, alluring 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:59.440 eyes full lips, though she never smiles. Aisha Kndicha has 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.440 a flipped she was figured that can't be hidden in 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.840 the black carbons that she's draped in. Some say those 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.200 grapes are her own hair, jet black that has grown 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.040 so long it wraps around her body, and at times 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.720 when she's spotted, it's as she's emerging from the water 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.399 source she haunts, combing her long, wet black hair back 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.680 from her bare body. While she's feared for causing harm 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.080 to pregnant women. What Aisha Kandita is really known for 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.760 is her fearsome and violent lust, a lust so strong 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.160 that her only real mission is to seduce men into 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.120 her bed, and once her victim has been intimate with her, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:41.000 she reveals her true terrifying form. She's gargantuane with teeth 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.760 like knives, and hidden under the black folds are the 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.359 legs and feet of a camel. Not all of the 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.520 men who fall for her discover the truth of who 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.640 she is until it's too late, until they've already entered 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.119 into a sexual tryst with her, at which point he 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.879 can no longer reject her. He will either have to 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.280 become her sexual slave for life or risk being murdered 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.800 by her. Talk about a rock and a hard place. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.840 Becoming her slave comes with dozens of conditions. Her new 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.920 man can only wear a dirty, ragged clothing that's green 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.399 or red or black. He can never cut his hair 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.440 or his fingernails, and he definitely can't cheat on her. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.640 And if he rejects these conditions, tough conditions, and refuses them, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.480 then he has to pay for it with his life. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.280 And that's because I sha CONDITYA doesn't just satisfy her 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.040 sexual urges with her victims, she also satisfies her other 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.760 carnal drives. She drinks their blood and eats their flesh. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:41.840 She is quite literally a man eater. Not all of 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.760 her victims end up dead, though some end up driven mad, 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.920 possessed by her, possessed with love and lust for her, 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.800 but unable to obtain her. They say that those who 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.080 seek her become married to her and her alone, unable 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.439 or unwilling to take interest in a human bride, and 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.040 in that way I should condi Ja has at any 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:06.040 given time thousands of lovers and husbands. But beyond her 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.479 human husband's she's also married to Jen royalty to an 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.760 invincible Jin king by the name of Basha Hammou. Hamu's 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.159 weakness is blood, and so you'll find him at slaughterhouses, 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.400 but he also possesses people who then slashed their own 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:25.119 limbs to satisfy the Jin's desire. Aisha, Condisha and Hammu 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.640 quite a power couple, you could say, if we lean in, though, 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.520 what we see in stories about Aisha Kndija are layers 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:36.040 of lessons and warnings. A lesson on the power of 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:40.080 a woman's sexuality, but also what happens when the sexuality 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.600 of a woman isn't in check. Its spirals out of control, 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.720 lust turning into violence and even death. And it's also 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.119 warning to men to stay away from tempting beautiful women 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.479 that you aren't married to, because for all you know, 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:58.440 she could be a cannibalistic jin. Engaging and forbidden sexual 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.240 trysts could literally be the death of you. And even 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.480 if she doesn't kill you, you could find yourself gone 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.440 mad with desire for her, wandering the earth the rest 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.560 of your days, seeking her, useless to the rest of 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:14.240 the world. So in that sense, it's almost a warning 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:23.560 against falling in love itself. It might seem that all 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.840 the female jin have a bad rap, sexually insatiable baby 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.560 killers and man eaters, but that's not exactly true. Just 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.120 as there are good and evil humans, there are good 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:35.760 and evil gin and the good ones are often as 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.640 powerful as the not so good ones. In Morocco, where 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.159 we met Aisha Candia, we also meet La La Rakia 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:47.240 el Khammer, which translates to Lady Rekia, daughter of the 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.240 Red One. People seeking her blessings travel to the foot 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.840 of the Atlas Mountains to the enchanting town of Seffru, 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:59.200 located hours from the Moroccan capital of Rabat. Centuries ago, 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.280 Seffreu wasn't important trading city as well as an ancient 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.679 Jewish Berber settlement and Nestled in the western part of 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:09.439 the town is the Fountain of Lady Rerechia, a miraculous 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.760 fountains set to bring healing for both physical and mental ailments. 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.680 Those who believe in the powers of Lady Rerechia fill 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.960 up their jugs at her fountain, but most Moroccans don't 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:22.719 have to go that far to find her. That's because 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:25.639 the abode of Lady Rerechia is the bath house. And 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:27.439 I don't mean the room where you go to shower 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.520 in your house. I'm talking about the public bath house, 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.000 the hammam, which is ubiquitous in North African and Middle 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:39.480 Eastern cultures. Ham Moms are culturally, socially and religiously significant, 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.960 segregated by gender. The hammam is much more than a 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:48.720 shared pool of water, steam rooms, heated marble slabs, rigorous exfoliation, 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:53.840 cold showers. It's an entire series of pampering and cleansing rituals. 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:58.320 But beyond beautification and cleanliness, the hammons are kind of 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.240 like a local pub for full get together to linger 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:05.399 and trade gossip, albeit naked, relax with friends and neighbors, 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.680 and the hammam often even has a role in marriages, births, 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:12.840 even birthdays. Apparently there's nothing like water and naked people 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.320 to attract the wrong kind of gin, which is where 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:19.080 Lady Reky steps in. She's a queen in the gin world, 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:23.080 deeply respected for her wisdom and diplomatic skills, and she 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.000 lords over all the gin and every ham mom in 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:28.800 the world. She makes it her job to protect the 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:32.280 hammed bathers, but only if people request her permission to 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:35.640 enter the hammm ask for her protection and greet her 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:39.679 as they enter. Once in the hammam, Lady Rerekia guards 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:43.160 both men and women from malevolent beings who might otherwise 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:46.520 get too attached to abeather and follow them home or 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:49.840 whisper sinful thoughts and to obey the heart leading them 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:53.600 into forbidden acts and for the price of keeping peace 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:56.879 the hammam, Lady Rekia also demands to be thanked and 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.879 bid adieu while leaving. She loves offerings of oil, lamps, 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:05.880 incense and perfumes too, especially on special occasions. You could 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:08.040 say she's a bit needy, but really, who among us 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:10.280 doesn't like to be valued and recognized for their work. 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:14.160 Now in the world of good versus bad Gin. There 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:18.679 is one that kind of toes the line. If you 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:21.320 remember back to earlier in the season, we mentioned one 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:24.840 jin that while we aren't able to shake. That's our 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:27.360 jin double, the one we're born with and die with, 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:31.440 the Corinne. And if you're a woman, well, your female 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:36.359 counterpart is the Carina. There was, however, an original Carina, 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:38.760 the one that birthed all the others that were stuck 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:42.400 with today. It's believed that at the dawn of human creation, 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:46.439 that Carina was Adam's first wife, but was rejected by 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:49.240 him and later made it with Satan to produce legions 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:53.520 of baby gin ad infinitum. She nominally hated men, but 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.159 women too, and to punish both, she made children the 0:23:57.200 --> 0:24:01.200 target of her fury, causing stillbirths and fatal illnesses and babies. 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:05.520 If she sounds like Lilith, you're exactly right. The original 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:09.600 Karna and Lilith are one and the same. So for 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:11.919 the ladies out there, the Carina that you carry with 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:15.439 you everywhere turns out that she's the daughter of the 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:19.600 mother of all the gin. Our personal Carina is also 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:23.840 sometimes called our or Shakika, both words that mean sister, 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:28.600 but this jin takes sibling rivalry to another level. She 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.720 carries a particular interest in the spouse of her human, 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:35.120 fueled maybe by jealousy of all the human beings she's 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:37.760 missing out on. She does her best to break up 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:40.720 the couple was to bring hateful thoughts in her humans ears, 0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:44.359 poisoning her heart against her husband and urging her to 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:48.359 leave the marriage, which begs the question though, what if 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:51.600 he's just a truly terrible spouse? What if it's a 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:55.280 toxic or abuse of marriage? Does blaming a garna let 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:58.680 crappy husbands off the hook? Does it redirect blame back 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:01.120 to a woman to check herself health, to second guess 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:04.640 the thoughts that she has of leaving? But then, divorce 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:07.720 has always carried a heavy social stigma, especially in times 0:25:07.720 --> 0:25:10.440 and places where women didn't have the agency to make 0:25:10.480 --> 0:25:15.199 such monumental decisions. Maybe, just maybe, the Carina gives a 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:17.919 woman in an unhappy marriage who might find it impossible 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:22.840