Mourning Jinns: Superstition or Ritual Practices of Way out of Difficult Situations?

Abstract

Examining Muslim descriptions of bright bolides after medieval chronicles, A.G. Yurchenko argues that rituals of jinn mourning related to them should be taken not for signs of popular superstitions but rather important religious rites whose function was to diminish psychological tension and restore balances of spiritual and corporal worlds in periods of social and natural catastrophes.