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Overview

Basset’s short Sous account locates a speaking company of demons in a cave called Taghia Ikhinefnem. The narrative associates the place with people seeking something and spending a night there. Its supernatural inhabitants are represented through their speech and the place’s reputed efficacy, rather than through a visible bodily description.

The specific example is Sidi Mohammed ou Sliman el Djazouli. He goes up to the cave and spends the night. On returning to his house, he finds everything he wanted. The account ends with that result, without recounting a conversation between him and the inhabitants or specifying the goods he receives.

Cave dwellingSpeaking companyOvernight visitWishes found fulfilled at home
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Origins & earliest records

René Basset, Contes populaires berbères (1887), no. 37, complete printed pp. 77. Preface xiv assigns no. 37 to the Massat contributor residing at Tétouan; original note 78, printed p. 184, identifies El H’adj Moh’ammed of Massat, dictating the unpublished Chelha text at Tétouan in 1883.

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Records & interpretation

Complete French narrative inspected against original DjVu pages 115, printed pp. 77, including the entire ending. Preface context inspected separately. The tale-specific original contributor note has also been inspected in facsimile.

Selected bibliography

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    Contes populaires berbères

    René Basset, translator and editor; source contributor context stated separately · 1887

    No. 37, complete pp. 77; preface xiii–xiv. Preface xiv assigns no. 37 to the Massat contributor residing at Tétouan; original note 78, printed p. 184, identifies El H’adj Moh’ammed of Massat, dictating the unpublished Chelha text at Tétouan in 1883.

Family & connections

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  1. Primary collected narrative; original facsimile inspectedOriginal edition, complete narrative 37Research access: 2026-10-05

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