Marrakesh Stork. Kids Hoodie

The stork is holy to Marrakech. There are countless tales to explain its exalted status, and the impression it gives of prayer-like prostration when at rest. The most commonly repeated is of a local imam, dressed in traditional Moroccan garb of white djellaba and black robe, drunk on wine, who then compounds the sin by climbing the minaret and blaspheming. Shazam! Man suffers wrath of God and is transformed into a stork. Even before the arrival of Islam, an old Berber belief held that storks are actually transformed humans. To this day the offence of disturbing a stork carries a three-month prison sentence.