For the uninitiated, jinn are
creatures made of "smokeless
fire" that are mentioned in
the Qur'an and throughout
Islamic mythology. The two
most famous jinns are
probably the Muslim Devil
(Shaytan) and the jinn in
Aladdin's lamp from One
Thousand and One Nights.
-Disney-The jinn in the lamp was of
course, immortalized by Robin
William's portrayal of Genie in the
Disney movie, though not totally
accurately.
Those two are powerful
exceptions. Most of the time,
Jinns are portrayed as
invisible tricksters who
whisper, confuse, and change
shape.

1. The fight:
One time, my mother-in-law was
sitting in her bed.
She looked
over and saw a woman sitting
in the chair next to her bed,
with long pointy fingers and a
face with very sharp angles.
She was so frustrated and
annoyed with the jinns (they see
A LOT in their house and are no
longer afraid, just really annoyed
by them) that she reached out and
grabbed the jinn by its wrist. She
yelled, "Get out! I'm tired of you!
Get out!" It started to try to pull
its wrist away and eventually tried
to bite her hand because she
wouldn't let go. She pulled her
hand away before it bit her and
then the jinn vanished.
—Sakinah Blue, Facebook

2. The jinn and the locket:
At my boarding school, we had a
few cases of bullying. In one
instance, a bully broke a chain on a
student's neck. As soon as that
happened,
the girl started to
speak in a male voice while
her body contorted in strange
positions.
It said it was a jinn
and had travelled from a faraway
place. Meanwhile, the bully's tongue
swelled and almost prevented her
from breathing. Long story short,
teachers were called into the room
— apparently, her parents knew
and had gotten the chain for their
daughter from a shaman to hold
the jinn in.
—Temitope Barakat Lawal
(Facebook).
3. Communing with children
Anonymous
This happened when my
grandfather was Egypt’s
ambassador to Spain, and was
living in Spain. I was two years old
at that time, my mother said she
would see me standing by the
staircase constantly talking to
someone and when she would put
me to bed, I would stare out the
door and say ‘Tek tak. Tek
tak.’ Later on, my grandmother
mentioned to my mom that she
thinks I might be seeing sprits in
the house and when qw were
talking about it, my grandfather
said that the TV in his room turn
on and off sporadically and
sometimes...could see shadows
running across the balcony through
the slits of the blinds.
My grandmother said that its
known little children and
animals can see sprits, so
when they saw me talking to
something, they assumed
there was spirits in the house
and I was the only one who
could communicate with them.
4. Hooves:
This is an old Persian story: One
day a lady goes to the public
bathhouse. She pays the attendant
and goes inside. Once inside, she
notices someone in the room with
her.
She looks down at their
feet, but instead of feet the
person has HOOVES.
The lady
freaks out and runs outside as
fast as she can. She rushes to the
attendant and tells her that she
saw someone with hooves instead
of feet. The attendant looks at
her, lifts up her skirt, and asks,
“Like THESE?”
—avar5
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5. The busybody: I grew up in an Arab household with many Arab family friends, so I’ve heard many scary jinn stories. A family friend of mine claimed that she went to bed one night, and her whole house was a mess. By the time she woke up, her whole house was clean. For some reason, that freaked me out when I was little! Every night I made sure that my room was clean so that jinns wouldn’t clean it for me. Nowadays, being a wife and a full time college student, I could only pray that a jinn would clean my house for me… And what the heck, cook dinner as well! —tast
6. The night whispers: A few years ago, when I was on my third trimester of pregnancy, I would only be able to fall asleep when dawn came. Just as I was about to fall asleep one night, I felt pressure on the end of the bed, near my feet, as if someone —very heavy—sat on the bed, which was weird, because I didn’t even hear anyone come into the room. No creaking door. No footsteps. Just then, an eerie voice spoke straight into my mind. The language was unintelligible and distorted. I knew it wasn't human. But, to my surprise, I understood what ‘it’ was trying to say. My brain processed it easily, as if I had learned the language somewhere in the past. It asked me to pray my morning prayer. I was too sleepy and too scared to actually open my eyes. What if its face was suddenly right in front of my nose? So I responded in my head, communicating without actually opening my mouth to say a word. “Later please, I’m so tired. I didn’t get to sleep.” After I said so, the weight on the end of my bed lifted. The air which was previously heavy with presence became light and clear. I opened my eyes a little and saw the earliest morning light gleam through my window. My door stood still, no one came in, or out. I fell back to sleep. —p439bf994d Warner Brothers

7. The landlord:
So apparently, in Saudi, my aunt
lived in a house that was always
being visited by a particular jinn
who used to annoy her family.
Once, she was laying in bed
at night with her husband.
She felt that something was
off and when she left the
room, she found her husband
watching TV on the couch.
When they went back to the
bedroom to confront the jinn, it
just laughed and went away.

8.An excerpt:
"Generations back, one of (my)
forefathers taught Quran, the holy
book (to a) child from a jinns’
family. (The jinn child became) a
hafiz (memorized the Qur'an by
heart). (The jinn's) parents
appeared in front of
my...grandfather and in return, as a
thanks, they offered him...many
different things. There were huge
trays full of gold and silver were
brought or what not...But (he)
would not accept it. He said “I
did this because I believe i will be
rewarded by Allah..." They
wouldn’t go.
<(The jinn) said
you have done such a big
favor to our generations that
we want to give you
something.
After so many
arguments...they wouldn’t go so...
(my) grandfather said “OK, then
what i would ask you is that you
have to take an oath and promise
me that for my next seven
generations you would not hurt
anyone or make anyone’s life
miserable.
9. The territorial jinn:
My great uncle went to visit his
cousins in India. His cousins told
him that since it was summer time
and they would all sleep in the
courtyard together. However, they
told him he wasn't allowed to
place his bedding in a particular
corner. Apparently, a jinn slept
there and strange things happened
if any one disturbs that corner. My
great uncle said it was nonsense
and decided to sleep there anyway.
One night, he woke up on the
other side of the court. He laughed
at first and thought it was his
cousins who were pranking him
and decided to sleep there again.
The following night, the same thing
happened, so he left a note next
to his pillow saying, ”Stop
pranking me. I know there is no
jinn.” That night, he said he was
pushed off his bed, and his
bedding was thrown on the other
side.A note was thrown into
his lap which said, 'I sleep
here.” The scary part is, it
wasn't that dark and there
was no one there.