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Zar is a kind of spirit possession that can include extreme physical actions by the possessed person(s)and or a refusal to do normal tasks. Zar is usually found in Middle Eastern or North African countries. The spirit can possess the indiudival for long periods of time.

Zar is mostly found in North African countries including Ethiopia, Somalia, Egypt, Eritrea and Nigeria. Zar is a spirit possession by spirits called "jin". In some countries mostly the sudan the spirits are called Al-Rih Al-Ahmar. In most of the North Africian countries the affected persons are primarly women.

The origin of the word Zar is debated amoung several scholars that have studied it for several years. Some of the theories including that is was borrowed from several town names in the North African area or that it came from several varitions of deitys from several North African religions.

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