Behind the Scenes: "I Dream of Jeannie" (video)

Vintage RC; Dark Element; Seth Auberon, Crystal Q., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I Dream of Jeannie: American fantasy sitcom starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie and astronaut Larry Hagman (Dallas), her "master." They fall in love and eventually marry. Produced by Screen Gems, it originally aired 139 episodes on NBC from 1965-1970.

The History of the Djinn

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In Buddhism and Hinduism, genies (jinn) are rakshasas, yakshas, asuras, nagas, pretas.

Imam Ali Conquers Jinn, unknown artist, Ahsan-ol-Kobar (1568) Golestan Palace (Wiki)

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Genies, shapeshifters, attack the Buddha.

Who or what are "genies"? In Buddhist cosmology, they are called rakshasas, yakshas, asuras, nagas, or pretas. The Arabic word jinn, Romanized as djinn, is from the verb "janna," which means to hide or conceal.
 

They are intelligent/crafty spirits with a sordid history of uprising, banishment, and demonic behavior.

The first stories of the djinn emerged from early Arabian culture and were later adopted by Islamic theology.

Also known as jinn/genies, they are a lower rank of angels that can appear in humanoid, shadow, and hybrid-animal forms. They are able to possess humans.

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Sign it, SOB, or I'll take your power!

They were without original form, invisible spirit beings made of a scorching, smokeless fire, which in today's terms would probably be described as a plasma.

It is said that they are masters of shapeshifting, with the ability to adopt any form they like. In Islam, genies are often spoken of as taking the forms of snakes (nagas), dogs, and human shaped shadows.

• • Chort
  • Çor
  • Daeva
  • Daemon (classical mythology)
  • Demonology
  • Exorcism in Islam
  • Fairy
  • Genie in popular culture
  • Genius loci
  • Genius (mythology)
  • Ghoul (graveyard jinn)
  • Hinn
  • Houri
  • Iblis
  • Ifrit
  • Marid
  • Nasnas
  • Peri
  • Qareen
  • Qutrub
  • Rig-e Jenn
  • Shayṭān (Iblis' demon troops)
  • Shedim
  • Sila
  • Theriocephaly
  • Will of the wisp
  • Winged genie
  • Yazata
  • Yōkai

Infection: evil spirits, like jinn, can cause toothaches, Ottoman Manuscript 1880s.

 

According to legend, they inhabited the earth before humankind, approximately 2,000 years prior to the biblical story of Adam and Eve. Originally they were equal to angels (devas) in stature.

O, look what this Shaytan as a snake has done!

When Gods [a group of creator gods] created Adam [the Adamaa of Adama, one iteration or generation of humans], they told the angels to bow to him [to humans], and the angels respected this request.

But the leader of the djinn, a spirit known as Iblis (also known as Shaytan/Satan), refused and proclaimed he would not bow to a being that was inferior to his own race. More