From Thousand Nights and a Night, translated by Sir Richard F. Burton:

Jinni- The Arab singular; feminine is Jinniyah. Jann is usually the plural form of Jinni, though sometimes Jinn is.

The Moslems made the Jinn a supernatural anthropoid being, created of subtle fire, not of earth like man, propagating his kind, ruled mighty kings, the last being Jan bin Jan, missionarised by Prophets and subject to death and Judgement.

From the same root are "Junan"=madness(i.e., possession or obsession by the Jinn) and 'Majnun"=a madman.

Classes of Jinni include the Ifrit("prounounced Ay-fit", fem. Ifritah) and the Marid(fem. Maridah) who are usually, but not always, hostile to mankind.


From the beginning of Wishmaster:

Once in a time before time, God breathed life into the universe.

And the light gave birth to Angels, and the earth gave birth to Man.

And the fire gave birth to the Djinn, creatures condemned to dwell in the void between the worlds.

One who wakes the Djinn shall be given three wishes.

Upon the granting of the third, the unholy legions of the Djinn shall be fred upon the earth.

Fear one thing only in all that is...
Fear the Djinn.


Stories relating to the Djinn:
The Fisherman and the Jinni
The Fisherman and the Jinni(different, shorter version)(illustration)
The Second Kalandar's Tale
The Merchant and the Jinni(illustration)

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