The Survey of Western Palestine

Record summary

The Palestine Exploration Fund’s survey volumes by Claude Reignier Conder, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, and collaborators document villages, caves, shrines, ruins, place names, legends, and local traditions across western Palestine. They can be searched for reports of sacred or dangerous sites, jinn-associated locations, tomb traditions, and anomalous folklore embedded in topographic description. The survey is a colonial mapping project rather than a paranormal investigation, and its transliterations, informants, and interpretations require scrutiny. Later archaeological and Arabic folkloric work may correct or contextualize its accounts.