Case file · Folklore / legend
Tuhami, married to Aisha Qandisha
From 1968 the anthropologist Vincent Crapanzano recorded the life of Tuhami, an illiterate tile-maker in Meknes who believed he was married to the jinniya Aisha Qandisha.
1968 CE · 33.90, -5.55 · status: account
The account
'Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan' (1980) became a classic of anthropology. Tuhami took part in the Hamadsha brotherhood's trance rituals near the shrine of Sidi Ali ben Hamdouch, where Aisha Qandisha is said to live.