Question
Gatherings with this purpose may feature an array of personas like Al-Wardi Karoma and Gordel, the counterparts of Lord Cromer and General Gordon. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this purpose of gatherings where all-female musical ensembles, like Umm Sameh’s Mazaher, play goat hoof rattles called manjur and tanbūra lyres. This is the purpose of those zār gatherings in North Africa.
ANSWER: healing possessed people [or adorcism; or word forms of treating possessions; accept exorcism; accept communicating with spirits or jinn; prompt on healing]
[10e] The zār possession cult is often linked to the bori cult practiced by women in this ethnic group’s traditional animistic religion. This Muslim ethnic group lives in Northern Nigeria.
ANSWER: Hausa
[10h] Gnawa (“g’NAH-wa”) musicians accompany the Hamdushiyya Sufi order’s communications with this jinn. Men can plunge a knife into the ground to escape the seductions of this hennah-loving, hoofed jinn popular in Moroccan lore.
ANSWER: Aisha Qandicha [or Aisha Qandicha; or Lalla Aisha]
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