Case file · Folklore / legend
Westermarck's 'Ritual and Belief in Morocco'
In 1926 the Finnish anthropologist Edvard Westermarck published two volumes on Moroccan belief, based on decades of fieldwork from his home in Tangier, with detailed chapters on the jinn and baraka.
1926 CE · 35.77, -5.80 · status: account
The account
He recorded where jinn live, such as thresholds, drains, ovens and springs, how they cause illness and madness, and the iron, salt and words used to keep them away.