Arabian jinn
An archetype. All kinds.
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Filed here because: Aisha Qandisha is one of the best-known named jinn-class beings in Moroccan folklore, a female jinniya (jinn) said to haunt riverbanks, springs, wells, crossroads, and other liminal outdoor places, particularly at night.
Filed here because: The Ghaddar, also recorded under the variant name Gharrar, appear in accounts of Arabian jinn lore as one of several related orders of demonic jinn described alongside better-known figures such as the ghoul and the sealah.
Filed here because: The dominant reading makes him a djinn — a being of fire, capable of disobedience in a way angels are not — while another strand treats him as an angel who fell, and the sources assembled in reference works often carry several of his names from different strands at once, including one used before the refusal.
Filed here because: Redjal el Marja are described in Moroccan folk tradition as water-dwelling jnun, spirits belonging to the broad Islamic category of jinn but localized to a specific urban water system: the canals, cisterns, and public fountains that historically carried water through Marrakech, much of it drawn from the city's underground channel network.
Filed here because: Jinn in Quranic cosmology are a distinct order of beings created from smokeless fire, parallel to humanity and subject to the same moral choice between belief and defiance; shaitan and shayatin denote specifically those jinn who chose defiance.