Goatmen, Djinn or Skinwalkers? How A Mesopotamian Demon Was Unleashed on the Modern World.

#unexplainedphenomena #ghoststories #goatman #sleepparalysis

Arab folktales, Moroccan folklore and The Female Arabian Ghoul: Something is haunting the men of Morocco and the Gulf. The truth behind the Aisha Kandisha story, the Umm Al Duwais legend and their connection to the Sumerian Demon Lilith.

For thousands of years from Morocco to the GCC there have been numerous case studies where humans have encountered a class of djinn that typically manifest as human females with animal limbs such as the Goat Man, Satyrs and Fauns. Are these beings merely folklore, cryptids or phantoms? From Ancient Mesopotamia's Lilith to Morocco's Aisha Kandisha, Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf's Himarat Al-Gayla and Umm Al Duwais and even the La Diablesse from Latin America and Trinidad and Tobago, what's causing fictional creaturess from children's folktales to manifest in reality?

Chapters:
0:00 Preview: A Moroccan Cryptid or Djinn?
1:03 Intro: Human Animal Hybrids and Ghouls
6:38 Kuwaiti Folklore: Himarat Al-Gayla
8:10 The Umm Al Duwais Duwais story
11:40 Morocco’s Aisha Kandisha Mystery
20:25 Popobawa: The Tanzanian Bat Entity
22:24 The Witch, Shadow People... and The Portuguese?

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Sources, References, and Further Reading and Viewing

أم الدويس : الإغواء القاتل : Paranormal Arabia
ذكريات مع "أم الدويس"
في لِقاءٍ مَحمّلٍ بالرُعب: رحلتُ من الباطنة

Foreign Deities in Egypt - UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology - (03 April 2011)
Aicha Kandisha (or whatever) Reddit - Bayl0ck - (03 December 2019)
Aicha Kandicha A Myth or a reality - My Tindy - (03 November 2021)
Aisha Kandisha – Moroccan Succubus Urban Legend - The Unexplained Mysteries 08 December 2020

The Lady with a Cloven Hoof: A Minstrel's Romance (eleventh century)
Péde Cabra (The Lady with a Cloven Hoof)' By Alexandre Herculano (1851) Appendix A
Translated by Maria Manuel Lisboa (2016)

Myths and Maxims: A Catalog of Superstitions, Spirits and Sayings of Grenada, and the Caribbean
Legend of the La Diablesse: Trinidad and Tobago Guardian (26 October 2013)

The Nature of the Arab Djinn, Illustrated by the Present Beliefs of the People of Morocco Edward Westermarck 1899

Attacks Blamed On Bat Demon - BBC News - 21 February 2007
Popobawa : The Evil Bat - Thomson Safaris
The Chupacabra of Zanzibar: Popobawa Demons

Umm al-Duwais (and Other Notable Female Jinn) - Postscript Magazine - Maitha AlSuwaidi
The Legend of Umm Al Duwais: The Female Jinn of Emirati Folklore - A Little Bit Human Joseph Sherwood

Mythical characters abound in old Kuwaiti folktales - Al-Mukhaizeem - Kuwait News Agency

Music By Scott Buckley
Narration By Karim Ismael
Edited by Abdullah Yahya

Original Thumbnail by Clayshaper
New Thumbnail by photographer: Gerbie Pabilonia Model: Sahara Isidro Perez