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

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