Abstract
MOROCCAN folklore, as Dr. Westermarck has shown us, is essentially a composite product. A veneer of the Moslem creed overlies a solid body of Berber magical practice and belief, in which survivals from the old Roman province are embedded like plums in a pudding. The genie, whether good or bad, common to the whole Moslem world, claims attention equally with the mysterious baraka, the mystic individual power of the animate and inanimate world, which is characteristic of Morocco, while in the ever-present fear of the evil eye the inhabitants affirm their Mediterranean descent.
The Folklore of Morocco
By Dr. Françhise Legey Translated from the French by Lucy Hotz Pp. 277 + 25 plates. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1935.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Archæology and Ethnology. Nature 136, 591 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136591a0
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