Editing Ifrit (section)

===Egypt===
[[Image:Egyptian - Bes Mask - Walters 481661.jpg|thumb|Mask depicting [[Bes]], ancient Egypt deity, sometimes identified with afarit by Muslim Egyptians,<ref>{{cite book |first=Hans Alexander |last=Winkler |year=2009 |title=Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt: A study of spirit possession |place=Cairo, EG |publisher=American University in Press |isbn=9789774162503 |page=29}}</ref> early 4th–1st century BC ([[Walters Art Museum]], Baltimore)|200x200px]]

Although afarit are not necessarily components of a person, but independent entities, a common belief in [[Islam in Egypt|Islamic Egypt]]{{efn|
Although the identification of afarit with [[ghost]]s is usually associated with Muslims in Egypt, it is also attested among Muslims in India, [[Syria]], and [[Javanese people|Javan]] Muslims in [[Cirebon]].<ref>
{{cite book |first=A.G. |last=Muhaimin |year=2006 |title=The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon: Ibadat and Adat among Javanese Muslims |publisher=ANU E Press |isbn=978-1-920942-31-1 |page=38}}
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{{cite book |first=Gebhard |last=Fartacek |year=2010 |title=Unheil durch Dämonen?: Geschichten und Diskurse über das Wirken der Ǧinn; eine sozialanthropologische Spurensuche in Syrien |language=de |trans-title=Evil from Demons? |quote=Stories and discourses on the works of the djinn; a socio-anthropological search for clues in Syria. |publisher=Böhlau Verlag Wien |isbn=9783205784852 |page=68}}
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{{cite book |first=Frederick M. |last=Smith |year=2012 |title=The Self Possessed: Deity and spirit possession in South Asian literature and civilization |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-51065-3 |page=570}}
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associates afarit with part of a human's soul.<ref name=al-Aswad-2002>{{cite book |first=el-Sayed |last=al-Aswad |year=2002 |title=Religion and Folk Cosmology: Scenarios of the visible and invisible in rural Egypt |place=Westport, CT |publisher=Praeger / Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780897899246 |pages=103–104, 153}}</ref>{{rp|style=ama|pages=103–104}}

Probably influenced by the [[Ancient Egypt]] idea of [[Ancient Egyptian concept of the soul#kꜣ "double"|''Ka'']], the afarit are often identified with the spirits of the dead, departing from the body at the moment of death. They live in cemeteries, wander around places the dead person frequently visited, or roam the earth close to the place of death, until [[Islamic eschatology|the Day of Judgment]]. A person who died a natural death does not have a malevolent ifrit. Only people who are killed give rise to a dangerous and active ifrit, drawn to the blood of the victim. Driving an unused nail into the blood is supposed to stop their formation.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Aeromancy | year = 2006 | encyclopedia = The Element Encyclopedia of the Psychic World | pages = 10 | publisher = Harper Element}}</ref> Such afarit might scare and even kill the living or take revenge on the murderer.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert |last=Lebling |title=Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and genies from Arabia to Zanzibar |publisher=I.B. Tauris |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-85773-063-3 |pages=151–153}}</ref><ref name=al-Aswad-2002/>{{rp|style=ama|page=153}} [[Islamic martyrs|Martyrs]], [[Islamic saints|saints]] and [[Prophets in Islam|prophets]] do not have a ghost, and therefore no ifrit.<ref name=al-Aswad-2002/>{{rp|style=ama|page=153}}