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Overview
Marmara is described as a female friend of Dakaki. The historical account attributes stiffness of the whole body to her and gives a particular pair of fowls as an offering. Her representation lies out rigidly, resembling Taiki’s recumbent posture, but Tremearne explicitly distinguishes one feature: she is not covered with a black cloth. That difference keeps two neighboring performances from being copied into a single undifferentiated scene.
She then asks for water, drinks, sneezes and goes. Her short song names Marmara, likens the still figure to a stone and identifies her as a spirit of water. No longer attack episode or separate origin narrative is supplied in this notice.
Origins & earliest records
A. J. N. Tremearne combines interviews and descriptions of bori performances with comparative interpretation. These selected notices do not consistently name individual speakers; printed attributes are distinguished from his conjectures.
Records & interpretation
Complete selected notice in chapter XXIII, printed pp. 341–342; chapter read through its ending.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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The Ban of the Bori: Demons and Demon-Dancing in West and North Africa
Chapter XXIII, printed pp. 341–342; complete attributed spirit notice and representation.
Family & connections
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References
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- Digitized historical ethnographic accountTremearne — MarmaraResearch access: 2026-10-05
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