Aicha Kandida

Aicha Kandida is the name of a malicious cannibal water djinn in the folklore of Morocco. When luring her human victims, she is described as a beautiful young woman, but this enchantment conceals her gigantic size and hideous nature. A predatory being, she lurks on the banks of the River Sebu, around the Aguedal at Marrakech, and sometimes in the sultan's palace grounds, awaiting any lone man foolish enough to be taken in by her. Once he has approached her, there is no escape, for soon she will reveal her true shape and consume him under the water. She hates humans, and if her quarry cannot reach another human or inhabited dwelling in time, he is doomed. Sometimes she may be magnanimous and release back into his world a man who gratifies her willingly, laden with rich gifts. Her husband is the Afrit known as Hamou Ukaiou.