Imkurarn (Wizardry) and Magic Ritual Practices of Amazigh/Berber Women of the Souss Region in Morocco
Imkurarn (Wizardry) and Magic Ritual Practices of Amazigh/Berber Women of the Souss Region in Morocco

Summary/Abstract: Magic and wizardry are well established social and cultural realities in Maghrebian countries and are linked to the notion of mysticism since the dawn of North-African civilisations. They are the testimony of a cultural evolution in the arts, magic, religion and other aspects of social life. In Morocco, beliefs about witchcraft are widely held in different regions of the country, and especially in the Amazigh region of the Souss Valley in which witchcraft rites are practiced everywhere, among urban and rural societies as well as in private and public spaces. But more specifically, it is associated with women. This paper aims to present the different forms and manifestations of magic and witchcraft rituals practiced by women that still prevail in our modern Soussi Amazigh societies.Magic and wizardry are well established social and cultural realities in Maghrebian countries and are linked to the notion of mysticism since the dawn of North-African civilisations. They are the testimony of a cultural evolution in the arts, magic, religion and other aspects of social life. In Morocco, beliefs about witchcraft are widely held in different regions of the country, and especially in the Amazigh region of the Souss Valley in which witchcraft rites are practiced everywhere, among urban and rural societies as well as in private and public spaces. But more specifically, it is associated with women. This paper aims to present the different forms and manifestations of magic and witchcraft ritu als practiced by women that still prevail in our modern Soussi Amazigh societies.

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