Folk beliefs - Mother Tongue

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Medicine, products and folk remedies

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Bukhara

Bishkek

Custom against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Godspeed custom

Fergana

Margilan

Samarkand

Custom against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Godspeed custom

Shahrisabz

Custom against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Godspeed custom

Tashkent

Help with raising children, birth and folk beliefs about birth

Caucasus

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Tree fairy tale

Egypt

Cairo

Home birth, tending the mother and family support

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Greece

Aigio

Birth and its ceremonies

Iran

Arak

Birth, folk beliefs and helping the mother

Grandma's remedies for various diseases and her parents' falling in love story

The synagogue and her grandmother's beliefs

Borujerd

Bukan

Folk beliefs and medicine

Golpayegan

Beliefs surrounding birth and marriage

Grandma's remedies for various diseases and her parents' falling in love story

The synagogue and her grandmother's beliefs

Hamadan

Motherhood, beliefs around birth and marriage and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Isfahan

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and the use of an egg as an amulet

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and the use of an egg as an amulet

Kermanshah

Folk beliefs and harm from ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Motherhood, beliefs around birth and marriage and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Khorramshahr

Beliefs and amulets

Mahabad

Birth and folk beliefs surrounding the mother and baby

Nahawand

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Sanandaj

Receiving a healing at a Sheikh's tomb

Saqqez

Folk beliefs and harm from ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Shiraz

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and beliefs surrounding childbirth

Teheran

Birth, beliefs around birth and death

Motherhood, beliefs around birth and marriage and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Tehran

Use of incense and bereavement customs

Tuyserkan

Medicine, makeup and folk beliefs

Recitations about beliefs and values

Yazd

Birth: folk beliefs, postpartum assistance, brit mila and giving birth to a son and a daughter

Iraq

Baghdad

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Erbil

Birth and beliefs about childbirth and marriage

Israel

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Kirkuk

Dream interpretation and Rabbi Eliyahu Kanush

ʿAna

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Israel

Tiberias

Western and folk medicine

Kurdistan

Awena

ʿAraq (drink) making and folk medicine

Baghdad

Folk remedies and a story about a relative

Her father's profession as a healer, passing the tradition to the next generation and making alcoholic beverages

Wedding's celebrations for eight days, mikve and beliefs about a woman giving birth

Diana

Folk beliefs and natural medicine

Duhok

Folk remedies and a story about a relative

Her father's profession as a healer, passing the tradition to the next generation and making alcoholic beverages

Wedding's celebrations for eight days, mikve and beliefs about a woman giving birth

Erbil

Her parents' occupations, birth, brit mila and bar mitzva

Mergasor

Folk beliefs and natural medicine

Mosul

Diseases and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Sanandaj

Birth, ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye), brit, wedding and Shabbat

Sulaymaniya

Community life, relationship with non-Jews and folk beliefs

Zakho

Diseases and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Folk remedies and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Lebanon

Beirut

Home remedies and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and brit mila

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Common folk beliefs and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Libya

Al-Khums

Belief in demons, use of amulets and fish and changing the family name

Benghazi

Protection against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and entering a new home

Msallata

Avoiding the pronunciation of the words 'fish' and 'five' and rituals to ward off ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Folk beliefs and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Folk medicine for various pains and for a breastfeeding woman

Stories of demons: encountering and identifying a Ghoul demon

Tripoli

Night demon: ghoul

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and ways to manage it

Zawiya

Fear of demons and natural remedies

Song for the birth of a son and an amulet for protection

Morocco

Agadir

Aït Bouguemmaz

Medicine and folk beliefs

Asammer

Medicine and products

Asilah

Curses

Folk medicine and folk beliefs

Azemmour

Medicine, products and folk remedies

Aїt Hakim

Folk beliefs and medicine

Medicine and folk beliefs

Beni Mellal

A song during the burning of the incense of 'bekhor' and 'atar' (in the scent of incense)

Acquaintance between the parents and the intervention of ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye): cleansing with “bekhor,” the use of fish and hamsas, protection for a new home and for a mother and a baby

Casablanca

Brit mila and fertility remedies

Folk beliefs and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Infant mortality, infertility and folk medicine

Medicine, products and folk remedies

Demnate

My grandmother and the zodiac calendar

My grandmother, her blessings and work as a healer

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Folk beliefs and folk medicine

The role of midwives, beliefs surrounding birth and the Covenant of Isaac

Erfoud

A folk ritual of bringing children home from far away

Fes

Passover, folk beliefs and observing religion

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Inezgane

Demons in Morocco: a tale of a demon and ways to exorcise them

Fear of ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and ways to prevent its influence

His sick brother and healing through fire

Israel

Prayer for rain

Rabbis, folk medicine, amulets and folk beliefs

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and the circle of life

Marrakesh

Brit mila and fertility remedies

Curses, ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye), ghosts and demons

Her brother's occupation and meeting her husband

Painting maternity home to ward off ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and reciting Psalms for protection

Worshiping the holy, folk remedies and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and folk remedies

Meknes

Belief in sacred rabbis and their manifestation in dreams

Folk medicine and healing foods

Medicinal herbs, secret language, trade and community

Midelt

The ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) injury and its solution

Mogador (Essaouira)

Burning incense (bakhoor) custom

Healing virtues: Moroccan argan oil and a sugar cube wrapped in blue

The hoopoe amulet

Ouarzazate

Beliefs and care during childbirth

Folk beliefs and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye), demons and folk remedies

Oumnass

Brit mila and fertility remedies

Rabat

My grandmother and parents, and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Safi

Birth, brit mila and folk beliefs

Mimouna, a purple suit that went up in flames and a family tradition that wearing purple brings bad luck

Wedding eve and ceremony for pregnant women in the ninth month

Salé

His father's occupation and livelihood after turning blind due to ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye), celebration and revelation of figures covered in black

Sefrou

Birth, postpartum assistance and folk beliefs about birth

The birth of my sister and the protection of the newborn baby from demons

Settat

Customs against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Skoura

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye), demons and folk remedies

Talilit

Tanger

Story of the Baba Sali

Tazenakht

Birth, immersion in the mikve and folk beliefs

Timztot

Medicine, cosmetic products and folk remedies against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Tinejdad

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and the circle of life

Tirsal

Prayer for rain

Rabbis, folk medicine, amulets and folk beliefs

Tiznit

Prayer for rain

Rabbis, folk medicine, amulets and folk beliefs

Zagora

Life and marriage at the village, her husband's occupation, Passover and Mimouna, bus accident, demon, amulet

Zerkten

Removal of the ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) from a royalty's wife and ceremony against the ʿAyin Haraʿ

Syria

Damascus

Opposing folk beliefs

Protecting the house against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Protection from ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and folk remedies

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye): proverbs and traditions

Tunisia

Djerba

Medicine and health, the role of men, brit mila, education of girls, beliefs and bereavement customs

Wedding customs against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

El Ḥamma

Gabes

After birth customs

Diseases and natural remedies

Folk remedies and protection against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Giving birth to sons and daughters, immersion in a mikve according to the gender of the newborn, brit mila and folk medicine and beliefs

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye and fish

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and folk beliefs

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and folk remedies

Mahdia

Matmata

After birth customs

Nabeul

Belief in demons

Expulsion ofʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Folk beliefs and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Nefta

Ayin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Sousse

Zarzis

Nature of communities and folk beliefs

Rabbis, oaths and celebration customs

Removal of ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and life in Zarzis during the German invasion to Tunisia

Turkey

Edirne

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Israel

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Istanbul

Bereavement customs, other customs and folk beliefs

Yemen

Al Bayda

Birth

Al Maḥwit

Engagement and mikve

A story about ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and its removal using the name "Salameh"

Jewelry, amulets against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Poverty and medicinal plants, perfumes and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Stories of demons told by Raḥel's grandmother

Al Qif

Herbs against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and nausea relief

Love spell and spell removal

Treatment against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Al-Ashur

Amulets and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Folk belief regarding abortion and her mother giving birth

Al-Ghuraba (Saudi Arabia)

The different bridal headpieces according to her community and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Al-Lajam

Mikve, escorting the bride to the ḥuppa, mohel and beliefs surrounding birth

Bani Hajaj

Birth, ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and folk medicine

Daga

Clothing and folk medicine

Dayan

Dhamar

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Gharir

Folk beliefs: a personal story about the influence of ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Ghazieh

Birth and beliefs concerning the baby

Ḥabban

Folk beliefs and story of a demon

Perfume and folk medicine

Ḥaima

Encounters with demons

Ḥawlan

Medicine, folk remedies and dealing with ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Protection from ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Ruta chalepensis (plant) against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Ḥaydan

Folk beliefs and medicine

Israel

Medicine and folk remedies

Protection against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Najran (Saudi Arabia)

Danger of monkeys and camels on the road

Demons: identifying them, how they attach to people and treating them

The Rue plant and its use against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Radaʿa

Removal of ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Removal of ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) with spit

Rusaba

Bride and mother-in-law relationship and ʿayin ḥaraʿ (the evil eye)

Sanaʽa

Mikve, escorting the bride to the ḥuppa, mohel and beliefs surrounding birth

Sayan

Birth folk beliefs

Shaghadirah

Family story about ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Tanˁam

Birth folk beliefs

Yarim

ʿAden

Disease, plagues and their prevention

Folk remedies and blessings

Medicine and folk remedies

Protection against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

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