Jinn in Fiction
The Spirit of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin, who had been bound to an oil lamp, is a jinni familiar to the Western world. A way of summoning jinn was mentioned in The Thousand and One Nights: writing the name of God in Hebrew characters on a knife and drawing a diagram, involving strange symbols and incantations.
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