Mythical Islamic folklore figure

Usage examples of djinn.

In our time, witches and djinns are found as regular fare in children's entertainment, exorcism of demons is still practised by the Roman Catholic and other Churches, and the proponents of one cult still denounce as sorcery the cultic practices of another.

He was unaffected by the temptations of the djinns because—via technicolor—he had been tempted by professionals against whom the djinnees simply did not stand up.

He was unaffected by the temptations of the djinns because—via technicolor—he had been tempted by professionals against whom the djinnees simply did not stand up.

Now it began to say something piously satisfied about now look what a jam he'd gotten himself to, actually thinking romantic thoughts about an idiot girl who believed in imaginary creatures like djinns and efreets!

The inference was crazy—but if this was a world in which djinns were real, then craziness was sense.

They kidnapped princesses, whom the heroes of the Arabian Nights unfailingly rescued, and they fought wars among themselves, and they were not quite the same as efreets, who were always repulsive, while djinns might take the form of very personable humans.

At a moment when djinns were recently made plausible, erratic behavior of furniture suggesting ghosts was practically prosaic.

In the fix he was in, to be thinking about djinns and captive queens and such lunatic items!

The people of Barkut were, apparently, rather casual about djinns in spite of the long-continued war and the captivity of their official ruler.

On the two occasions when djinns had turned up to Tony's knowledge, the people had not run away, but had come howling with rage to attack them.

Ghail had spoiled everything by that unfortunate comment on the ability of djinns to take any form they wished, including chests of coins and jewels.

But as he sat, a sad and lonely and a disappointed figure, immune to the lavish immorality of the djinns, his conscience was amazed.

Her eyes were not the elongated animal eyes of male djinns, though, and apparently she had remembered with some care not to have her ears pointed.

So the king knows that your country must explode djinns to destroy your enemies' cities, and he's afraid you'll tell the people of Barkut how to do it too.

In his home world, Tony reflected, djinns would only really fit in Hollywood.