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JINN (DIINN)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 417 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JINN (DIINN)  , the name of a class of
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spirits (genii) in Arabian
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mythology . They are the offspring of fire, but in their form and the
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propagation of their kind they resemble human beings . They are ruled by a
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race of kings named " Suleyman," one of whom is considered to have built the pyramids . Their central home is the mountain Kai, and they manifest themselves to men under both animal and mortal form and become invisible at will . There are good and evil
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jinn, and these in, each case reach the extremes of beauty and ugliness .

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