摘要：This text attempts to shed some light on the perceptions of illness, misfortune and exorcism practices in the spaces of saint and genius cults in Morocco. The ethnography of the eponymous saints/geniuses in the isolated villages of Bouya Omar (Kalaa Sraghna) and Sidi Chamharouch (Grand Atlas) reveals a rhetoric of justice, sanctity, prison life and sheriffian authority that is clearly expressed during ritual processes and through oniric sequences interpreted by the dreamers themselves. The practices and the reflexive link with dreamt images entail an appropriation of the symbolic figures of authority. This authority is faced both by rebellion and submission. Recurrent practices and interpretations of dreams redefine the relations between the possessed, the saints and the geniuses. They also reshape the ties between marginal spaces or stigmatized communities and the rest of the society.
