Jinni [noun]

If you take a jinni or a swan-maiden you can go from Cairo to Bokhara in less time than our best expresses could cover a mile.

It was a keen-eared young Lur who first heard afar the pant of the mysterious jinni.

The building is the abode of jinni, and no one who goes in is ever able to come out by the same door.

Who does not sympathise with the Trader who killed the invisible son of the jinni?

Old Sheikh Sehel and his men stuck to it that they had constantly seen jinni, and their belief in them seems deeply rooted.

A round rock was shown us on which the chief magician sits to exorcise the jinni of the lakes, and around him the people dance.

In the case of the jinni of Arabia the connection 54 with trees is more clearly demonstrable.

Mr. Theodore Bent found the same superstitious dread of the jinni both in the Hadramaut and in Dhofar.

De Launay had taken on some of the attributes of a guardian angel, a jinni who alone could guide her to the goal she sought.