| The text centers on the compound of one marabout whose home is filled both inside and out with devotional imagery and serves as a site for the meetings of talibes. |
| But the marabout was away, and no one ever came out on his roof when he was absent. |
| At the initial condolence ceremony, the marabout officiates, transmitting his religious blessing or benediction to the guests. |
| I was at this moment the whole length of the room from the marabout. |
| Did the marabout appoint Toudja as the place to make the exchange, or was it you? |
| Her friends subsequently carried her body to a marabout, an intermediary between the spiritual and the physical world, who succeeded in reviving her. |
