طقوس وعادات الموت في الموروث الشعبي بالمغرب الأقصى

Abstract EN

The death is a frightening specter that constantly threatens the individual and accompanies his imagination, so he left his fingerprints clear in the Moroccan popular memory, which he expressed in parables, judgment and late, and even the songs and words of al-Zajal and frightening and comic folk tales expressing their perceptions about their daily issues.

Although rituals and customs vary according to events, subject to the inevitability of time, space and natural circumstance.

Many of them have rebelled against their geographical space, shortened the temporal gap, maintained their continuity and continued to drag with them a popular Moroccan and human heritage that is considered to be one of the hidden sources of the study of forgotten Moroccan and human history with its pros and cons.

The rites and customs of death have consolidated the manifestations of social solidarity and strengthened the bond between families on the one hand and members of Moroccan society in general since ancient times, reducing the inequalities that characterized Moroccan society and provided one of the factors of social stability and economic progress.