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| By Kamal Ghazal |
In the rugged spiritual landscape of Morocco where mysticism, ancient beliefs, and sorcery intertwin there persists a disturbing legend that some children are born marked. These children, known as Zohri (also spelled Zouhri), are believed to possess supernatural traits that make them invaluable to treasure hunters and sorcerers who claim to work with spirits or jinn.
Who is the Zohri ?
A Zohri is believed to be a rare child born with certain physical traits, most notably a horizontal line cutting across the palm, forming an unusual crease that palmists often associate with the "Simian Line" (a merging of the heart and head lines). In Moroccan belief, this mark makes the child spiritually "pure" or uniquely connected to the world of the unseen. But this purity also makes them targets.
According to folk magic lore, when someone attempts to extract buried treasure from the earth—often believed to be protected by powerful jinn, they must use a Zohri child. These spirits allegedly recognize the child as "innocent" or "chosen," and thus do not attack during the excavation. This belief has led to horrific real-world consequences.
A Child Lost: The Case of Hamza
The community speculated that Hamza had been targeted by a treasure-hunting cult due to his suspected status as a Zohri child. He was allegedly taken to be used in a ritual involving buried treasure, a process believed by sorcerers to require the blood of such children. Unfortunately, Hamza is not the only child rumored to have met such a fate.
The Personal Testimony of a Living Zohri
A Moroccan man named Abdelmajid wrote to our website PARANORMAL ARABIA (PARABIA) recounting his experience as a Zohri child. At age 12, he narrowly escaped an attempted abduction by unknown men in a car. As he matured, he reported bizarre sensations of cold white smoke encircling him when alone, and strange visions he couldn’t explain. Only later did religious figures tell him he was “Zohri,” a designation that explained—though perhaps didn’t justify, the eerie phenomena in his life.
Origins of the Term "Zohri" – A Link to the Zohar ?
The term Zohri is curious. Some have speculated that it may derive from Zohar, the foundational mystical text of Jewish Kabbalah—a spiritual system that uses coded symbols and is deeply concerned with light, energy, and the unseen. Although there’s no academic consensus linking the two, the linguistic and thematic parallels raise intriguing questions.
Historically, Morocco has long been a melting pot of Muslim and Jewish mysticism. After the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain during the Inquisition, many found refuge in Morocco. There, Jewish traditions such as Kabbalah blended with North African Islamic mysticism, laying fertile ground for shared beliefs in magical practices and supernatural entities.
A Folk Belief With Deadly Consequences
While the Moroccan government has cracked down on some of these practices, the stories still surface whispers of children taken, of rituals gone wrong, of blood spilled in ancient caves. All in pursuit of treasure supposedly buried long ago by kings, mystics, or spirits.
Myth or Dangerous Reality ?
To outsiders, the idea of using a child to summon buried treasure protected by spirits may sound like a horror movie plot. But in Morocco, the legend of the Zohri lives on, deeply rooted in a cultural matrix where ancient mysticism, local superstition, and esoteric beliefs still wield surprising influence.
And so the question lingers, not about whether the jinn exist , but about how belief alone, when left unchecked, can shape dark destinies for the most innocent among us.
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