Lalla Mimuna, some say, comes from the area of the Guerouan, a Berber tribe to the south of Meknes. She lives in wells and old deserted houses. She makes her followers wear blue and burn hasalban, and has been likened to "a woman who does not get on with her husband." She often attacks both men and women. She responds to the hadras of the Gnawa and the Hamadsha. She likes to seduce men when they are traveling.
She is known to be Sidi Mimun’s sister and the mother of Aisha Qadisha.