WEBVTT - Forbidden Love 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.160 Welcome to the Hidden Gin, a production of I Heart 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:09.559 Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Minky Listener. Discretion 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:32.279 is advised many many years ago, in what seems like 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.920 a whole other lifetime. I had been a single parent 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.680 for quite a while, but I got remarried and I 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.720 moved from the DC area to Connecticut, where my new 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.600 husband was studying at a seminary. I'd moved to Connecticut 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.120 without ever having first visited it. I just picked up 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.720 my belongings and my young daughter bundled up in a 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.480 U haul and drove north. And while we lived in Hartford, 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.440 the capital of the state, it was a pretty sleepy place, 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.400 and I soon found myself sprit to fill my time 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.920 and make friends. So I sought out volunteer opportunities with 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.760 organizations that I figured would attract like minded people, and 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.039 I was right. It turned out to be a great 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.640 way to make friends. One of those friends was a 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.800 young woman in her late twenties, a researcher at Yale 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:21.959 who was volunteering at a relatively new advocacy organization. For 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.919 the purpose of the story, I will call her Sarah. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.319 She and I were the only women in the group, 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.640 and having spent a lot of time together helping a 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.280 new organization get off the ground, we ended up becoming friends. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.200 Sarah was petite, but full of energy, incredibly dependable, thoughtful, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.920 and warm. I took a liking to her immediately. She 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:44.760 would come over to my plays, hang out with my 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.400 family and other friends, and we'd meet up for coffee. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:52.040 But I never went over to her place ever. I 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.720 knew that Sarah lived alone in an apartment in New Haven, 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.040 an apartment that she had moved into fairly recently. Now 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.960 we have been friends about a year when inevitably, one 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.960 day our conversation turned to merrite. Because the matchmaker and 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.480 me can't help but ask my single friends if they're 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.520 looking to meet someone. So I asked Sarah if she 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.000 was open to being introduced to a couple of eligible 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:18.040 bachelors that I already had in mind. Sarah took a 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:24.760 deep sigh and said, I'd love to, but I just can't. Now. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.560 I wasn't exactly sure what she meant by that. Was 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.959 she too busy? Was she interested in someone else already? 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:36.800 Was she just painfully shy? Sarah went on, She said, Robbia, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.360 you're going to think I'm crazy. But I have a problem. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.160 I've wanted to meet the right guy and settled down 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:47.200 for years, but there's this this thing. It won't let me. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.440 At that point, I thought, oh, maybe there's a health 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.120 issue she thinks is preventing her from being in a relationship. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.440 But it wasn't that at all. Sarah went on to 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.400 explain that for years, verse since she was a teenager, 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.880 a gin had been following her. She tried everything to 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.560 get rid of it, prayers and amulets, seeking help from 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:13.200 spiritual healers, consulting exorcists, moving from one city to another, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:17.200 moving from one apartment to another, but everywhere she went 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.160 it followed her. While mostly it didn't bother her, there 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.440 had been times it scared the heck out of her, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.239 showing her that it was there with her at all 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.680 times and that it was powerful. Once, said Sarah, she 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.520 woke up in the middle of the night, disoriented. The 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.120 ceiling looked much lower than it had before, and she 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.200 thought for a second that she was dreaming, But she wasn't. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.800 She was hovering, floating a good foot or two above 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.760 her bed, suspended and frozen in fright. She opened her 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.000 mouth to scream, but nothing came. Out. She said every 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.800 prayer she could remember in her heart, and suddenly she fell, 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.800 flopping back into her bed. Another time, she woke up, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.400 warm and cozy on her blanket, still in bed, but 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.400 her bed had been dragged to the other side of 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.040 the room. And then there are countless times that objects 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.600 moved from one place to another, things disappeared and reappeared, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.320 Voices whispered from empty corners of her apartment, cabinets creaked 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.880 open and closed by themselves. There was always an increase 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.640 in activity, she realized when she began getting romantically involved 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.240 with somebody else. Eventually, one of the religious leaders she 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.080 consulted he knew about her entire Gin history, told her 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.560 that the Gin was really possessive, and it was jealous 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.400 of any man who got too close to her. That 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:42.040 for her getting into a relationship might be an impossibility. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.719 The Gin wouldn't let it happen, because, you see, the 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.120 Gin was in love with Sarah. Now, of course, as 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.839 she's telling me these things, I went through a range 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.800 of emotions. This is ridiculous. I thought she's lying. She 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.520 has to be lying, But why would she lie. She's 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:04.320 not a lot, sire, She's level headed, smart, educated, honest. Okay, well, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:08.719 maybe she's hallucinating imagining things. But over and over again, 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.440 for years and years, I remembered. I wasn't sure what 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.159 to do with my face. She was dead serious, and 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:19.039 I was confused. I returned home that day and told 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.640 my husband the story as he munched on some cookies. Yeah, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.560 he said, completely unphased. That happens. He happened to know 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.720 a lot more about Jin than I did, so that's 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.080 when I first began digging deeper into the world of Gin, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.080 tracking down everything I could find to read and learn 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.560 about them. Sure, I had heard spooky stories growing up, 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.840 and was familiar with some of the scripture that mentioned 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.479 these beings. But the more I learned, the more I 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.920 realized I didn't know. Every rabbit hole led to another, 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.280 And in one of those rabbit holes, I found centuries 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:55.359 of stories, love stories between humans and Gin. Like in 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.680 Sarah's case, it wasn't always a two way street, but 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.120 in many cases the love of was mutual. Today will 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.840 explore what happens when lovers aren't just star crossed, they're 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:11.840 supernaturally crossed. My name is Robbia Chaudry, and I'll be 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.279 your guide into the world of the Hidden Gin welcome. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.719 If you aren't familiar with one thousand and one Nights, 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.680 you might think the only time Agin appears in the 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.360 whole volume is in the Tale of Aladdin and a 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.800 Genie from the Magic Lamp. If so, you might be 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.880 surprised to learn that not only wasn't this story a 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.320 part of the original collection in one thousand and one Nights, 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.120 but also that there are many other Gin stories that 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:53.679 are Some stories, however, are less palatable for the subject 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.640 of Disney films than others, and certainly, if there was 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.440 one subject that American audiences weren't ready for, it's the 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.200 repeated theme in one thousand and one Nights of love, marriage, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:09.280 and sexual relationships between Gin and humans. While these stories 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.640 may seem wondrous and fantastic, they were delivered to an 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.720 audience that not only widely believed in the existence of Gin, 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:20.280 but in a coexistence between Gin and mankind, in which 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:25.120 the Gin occupied both supernatural and earthly planes, interacting with humans, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:29.400 living alongside them, communicating with them, and naturally, given the 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:34.160 right circumstances, it was understood and accepted that both humans 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.080 and Gin could and would develop romantic feelings for one another, 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.240 which takes us back to the many tales, the one 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.400 thousand and one of them that Shahrazadey told her king 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.120 to keep him entertained and to keep herself alive, where 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.640 we repeatedly come across this theme. In one story, we 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.200 learn about a far away place called the Mountain of 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.440 the Bereaved Mother, given this name by passing fishermen who 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.280 heard ways and moans whenever they passed by the island 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.680 where the mountain stood. According to the tale, a beautiful 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.360 female Jin, a Ginia from China, had once fallen in 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.680 love with a mortal man, which didn't fare well with 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.280 her Jin family. She was desperate to have him, though, 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.120 and she came up with an idea. She searched the 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.560 entire world for a place that no man or Jin 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.880 could access, and found an island in the middle of 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.520 the Sea of Troubles, And so she whisked her love 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:32.120 away to that island, with or without his consent, it's unclear, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.920 but she kept him there for the rest of his life. 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.560 She would secretly visit him, sneaking away from her Gin family, 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.840 and over the years they ended up having many children together. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.200 Now how she hid that from her family is unclear. However, 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.280 every time she had a child, she would leave it 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.000 behind on the mountain with the other children and their father, 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.120 and the moans and the cries heard by fishermen were 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.160 in fact the whales of lonely children crying for their mother. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.600 A complic hated love story, if you will, and whether 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.200 or not had a happy ending is debatable. Nonetheless, that 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:11.439 Ginia got her Man One thousand and one Nights has 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.520 dozens and dozens of such tales of human gin love, 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:19.520 sometimes ending in socially accepted marriage, other times ending up 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:25.000 an elopement, abduction, and even death. Now you might be thinking, well, 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.640 these are tales told within a tale and are about 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.720 as real as the vampire human love stories in Twilight 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.440 or True Blood. Maybe, But then you have the real 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.400 life stories like Sarah's and many others, and at one 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.959 point in time it was actually pretty commonly accepted that 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:46.760 these relationships took place. As one example of how ubiquitous 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.000 and while normal, the very idea of human gen romance was, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.520 we turned to a tenth century volume titled All Fairest, 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:59.600 which means the Catalog, and it was indeed a catalog. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.520 In fact, alphaist is considered to be the very first 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.760 such catalog in history, indexing over ten thousand books inciting 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.679 to over two thousand authors. It was written and compiled 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.800 by the brilliant Bardadi polymath is shock Ibbin al Nadim, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:22.760 who himself described the book as such, This is a 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.440 catalog of books of all peoples, Arab and non Arab, 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:31.240 existing in Arabic language and Arabic script, dealing with various sciences, 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.040 together with the accounts of those who composed them, and 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.040 the categories of their authors, their genealogies, dates of birth, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.439 length of life, times of death, locations of the cities, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.160 and their virtues and faults, from the beginning of each 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:49.800 science to this our own time. That time, by the way, 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:55.280 was the year b c. The catalog basically indexes every 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.760 book ever written in Arabic up to that point in time, 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:04.439 over a hugely vast array of subjects, politics, religion, history, science, literature, poetry, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:09.000 and yes, the supernatural and I'll know them. Had two 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.800 sections directly relevant to our subject at hand. One section 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.640 titled names of those of mankind who loved the Gin 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:22.200 and vice versa, and the second section titled Lovers of 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:27.880 the Gin. These sections contained long lists of human Gin couples, 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:32.640 including head scratching entries like quote, I'll dre them the lion, 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.400 Judd the Liberal and Walks the Worthless, and another one 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:41.360 titled All Delfa, her Brothers and the Ginney. Now, whether 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.400 these were love triangles or threesomes, either way they were 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.880 pretty scandalous. But of course, who doesn't like a good scandal, 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.640 And what juicier drama than a love affair between a 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.080 gin and a human, an affair the society had no 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.600 power to stop, in which one lover could appear and 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.360 disappear right out of their beloved is bed. Never mind 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.360 the romance of a powerful supernatural entity choosing a mere 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:10.960 mortal as a partner. What about the actual physical experience itself. Well, 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.839 you can understand the kinds of things people imagined and 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:19.360 whispered incredibly seductive gossip fodder, if you ask me, And 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.360 ever more so given that it was believed that when 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.280 a Jin male or female fell in love with a human, 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.360 they would follow that human forever, and once that human 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.520 accepted the love, the gin would impart some of their 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.040 secret Jin knowledge to them, like how to heal disease? 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.959 Having a lover who could teach you powers others didn't have. Well, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.880 that's quite a French benefit. These cross species trists were 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.600 apparently such a fairly common occurrence at the time in 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.040 the region that religious and legal scholars had debates over 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:55.120 the rules governing such relationships, about, for example, whether the 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:59.120 marriages to the gin were actually legitimate, and most scholars, 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.000 by the way set up well not but there were 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.679 some exceptions, and whether the children produced from such marriages 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:16.959 were legitimate. Now I can't help but wonder if maybe 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.160 sometimes single women had to claim marriage to a jinn 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.920 when they ended up inexplicably pregnant in a society that 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.439 would shun children outside of marriage, and charges of fornication 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.360 and adultery could lead to some very serious consequences. I 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.080 can see how it's very much a possibility that gin 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.760 marriage was well a cover, and some scholars have even 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.440 positive that maybe unions with supernatural entities were a vehicle 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.839 for female liberation and protection. The sexual liberation of not 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:52.000 having to explain a pregnancy, protection from social or religious 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:56.120 consequences of such a pregnancy, and from the charges of adultery, 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.839 and liberation from the societal pressures of marriage to a human. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:05.240 In a year old story shows how this arrangement could 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.520 protect a woman. The story takes place in the time 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.280 of the Caliph Ali, one of the men given the 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.320 mantle of leadership of the entire Muslim community after the 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:19.160 profit of Islam Mohammed had passed away. One day, the 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.440 Caliph Ali noticed a child in the area acting strange, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.720 and he asked who the child was. Someone pointed out 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.280 the child's mother, so Ali asked her who is the father, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.800 and she responded, I don't know. One day I was 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.000 pasturing sheep for my parents when something in the form 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.760 of a cloud mate it with me. I became pregnant 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.520 and gave birth to this child, and that pretty much 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:50.040 settled the matter. Whatever purpose human gin romances may serve, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.960 there's no doubt that there's just a general fascination with them. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.000 And for the record, the lure of love between the 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.920 supernatural and mortals is not just confined to the Arabian 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:00.960 Peninsula and the t else that come to us from 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.920 one thousand and one Nights. You find it across different 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.520 cultures and religions throughout history. Those of you who know 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.320 your Bible will remember that in Genesis, the benni Iloheim, 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.720 known as the sons of God were commonly understood to 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.880 be angels that descended to Earth and took up human wives. 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.480 In Celtic and Irish folklore, it's not only believed that 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.000 fairies have long hooked up with humans, it's not uncommon 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.320 even today for families from the region to claim some 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:33.800 fairy ancestry. And South Asia abounds with stories of love 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.760 and marriage between humans and the mythical half human half 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:42.480 snake creature called the noggin if male or neguini if female. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.800 They're said to be irresistibly beautiful and incredibly wise, and 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:51.920 they often seek to mate with human royalty, resulting in attractive, brilliant, 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:56.120 noble offspring. There does seem to be a rather universal 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.360 inclination towards accepting and even honoring supernatural romance, says and 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:04.360 why not. Human curiosity has no limit, and our attraction 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:08.840 for the unknown, the forbidden, the powerful, for love and 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.160 desire and to be desired sometimes at any cost, is 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.560 very much a part of being human, which is maybe 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.360 why I'll gnaw them so matter of factly compile those 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.680 lists of human and gin lovers in his book The Catalog, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.880 like It's any other fact of life. One last note 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:31.400 about the book. Interestingly, All Fairest maybe the first documented 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.000 reference ever in history to the book One thousand and 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:39.480 one Nights. Unfortunately, however, All Nah Them wasn't very impressed 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.320 with it. He notes in his catalog that it is 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:46.400 quote a truly coarse book without warmth in the telling. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:57.320 I'm sure Shahrazadi would disagree. In the world of Gin, 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.440 there are some who fall in love with a person 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.520 and person do that one love for years, even decades 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.080 a lifetime. But then there are those who are never 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.840 quite satisfied with just one partner. Two female Gin in 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:16.200 North African traditions are particularly flirtatious and amorous, collecting lovers 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.199 as often as they like. Both of these Gin with 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:24.240 the honorific title Lula, meaning lady. Their names are Lulla 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.840 Mulicca and La La Mira. As her name, which means queen, 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:33.920 suggests Lulla Mulca is Jin royalty. She is the daughter 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:37.520 of a Gin king. Malika is not just regal and beautiful, 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.920 she's chic as well. She likes to be well dressed. 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.600 She only wears garments embroidered with gold thread, and she 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.080 expects her followers those who seek her to likewise be 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:52.240 dressed beautifully and smelling nice. She loves clothing so much, 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.880 in fact, that it said that she lives inside of wardrobes, 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.520 where no doubt she's planning her outfits. As you may 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.280 have guessed, Mulika is an egg exactly a fearsome gin. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.879 She's sweet nature and fun loving, often tickling people and 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:09.240 leaving them with uncontrollable giggles. La La Molika is a lover, 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.160 not a fighter, you might say, and she's a lover 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:16.680 particularly of married men. When a man gets her attention, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.520 she unseen to him, passes her hands in front of 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.680 his eyes, clouding them over, putting him in sort of 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.080 a trance, a trance in which he forgets everything he 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.719 knows and loves, even where he lives, and suddenly is 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.960 taken over for a deep longing from Mulika, who he 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.720 hasn't even seen or heard, but his heart already knows. 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.760 Lalla Molicca will then whisper to him, I want to 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.679 marry you. I want you to sleep with me. Because 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.439 these men are usually already married, well, they have to 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.560 negotiate a bit with Molcca. They have to get Lula 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.639 Molicca's permission to continue to have relations with their earthly 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:59.080 wives before they'll enter into the sacred supernatural marriage with Mulika. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.520 And that's not exactly a deal breaker for her. After all, 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.280 she has only one use for the man. She's not 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.720 exactly trying to settle down and have a family here 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.359 as long as her husband's agree to her terms being 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:15.400 clean shaven and well groomed, perfumed and well dressed, and 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.680 of course fulfilling her needs in their marital bed. She 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:20.960 doesn't much care for what they do in their own time. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.399 But even more popular and more powerful than La la 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:28.640 Mulica is La la Mira, a ginia that's both feared 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.840 and loved by those who believe in her. You could 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:36.439 say Mira is complicated. She's both giving and foreboding. She 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.840 can be playful and charming, but quickly loses her temper, 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:44.720 and unlike Mulca, she's jealous and possessive of her lovers. 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:49.480 Mira too has a fancy for married men, but when 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.679 she wants a man, she will not share him. She 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.600 will come to him in his dreams. And I don't 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.159 mean just as a vision. She will actually visit a 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.520 man as he sleeps and enter his dream ames, making 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:06.240 those dreams well not exactly suitable for children. The dreams 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.840 will get more frequent and intense, even to the point 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:13.320 of becoming debilitating for the object of her affection, rendering 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.560 him unable to sleep and unable to function when he's awake. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.480 Because when he's awake she expects him to basically spend 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:24.000 his time worshiping her. But if she gets bored with 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.520 her lover, he'll know because the dreams will get less frequent, 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.840 and eventually they will end all together. Now, as far 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.720 as Mara is concerned, her lovers should be honored that 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.959 she's even interested in them, and they should be completely 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:41.159 and utterly fulfilled by her and her alone. That's not 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:43.359 to say that she will never share a lover. She 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:46.800 has been known to negotiate terms, set up a schedule 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.199 if you will, but she doesn't like it, and if 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.439 you cross her or betray her, you will pay the price. 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:58.400 La La Mira attacks suddenly and viciously, leaving her victims 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:02.080 paralyzed or possess, sing them and leading them into hysterics 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:06.760 and madness. It's rather interesting that both Lalla Molica and 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.240 Lalla Mira prefer married men over single men, and you 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:14.040 can't help but wonder about that, especially because it's said 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.800 that these gins sometimes appear to their lovers disguised as 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.960 women they already know. Seems pretty convenient if you ask 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:26.600 me a ready excuse for infidelity. After all, how can 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.240 you blame the poor married man for being forced into 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:32.680 an affair with the gin. It's easier and less dangerous 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:34.720 to just give the gin what she wants instead of 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:38.240 denying her right, even if she happens to look just 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:52.240 like the lady from down the street. Not all flings 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.560 with the gin are long term. Brief sexual encounters are 0:21:55.560 --> 0:22:00.200 reported commonly, even going back centuries. The sixth century pre 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:04.760 Islamic Arab poet Babbitt Ibn Jabber lived a very colorful life. 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:07.960 While he was known for his poetry about desert life, 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.880 he lived with a band of bandits that raided local tribes, 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.760 and then they hid in the hills and mountains, evading capture. 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:18.719 Out there, one night in the wilderness, he found himself 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:22.080 face to face with a female gin. Now it's unclear 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:26.000 exactly what happened next between the two, but Jabbar ended 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:29.080 up writing a poem about the meeting, called How I 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:33.560 Met the Ghoul I lay upon her through the night, 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:36.240 that in the morning I might see what had come 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:40.080 to me. Behold two eyes and a hideous head like 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:43.480 the head of a cat, split tongued legs like a 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:47.639 deformed fetus, the back of a dog, clothes of haircloth 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:53.200 or worn out skins. Now, some have interpreted the poem 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:55.280 to mean that he killed the gin and then he 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:57.239 just kind of laid on top of her all night 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:59.200 so he could take the Jin's body back to his 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:03.399 camp and showed the others. But others interpret the poem 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:06.040 to mean that Jabbar made love to the ghoul, who 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:09.760 then revealed her true hideous form, and so he killed her. 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:13.560 I'm going to go with the second interpretation because, well, 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:16.800 it just makes more sense. And that's because there are 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.800 an entire class of Gin, both male and female, who 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:24.600 draw their energy from sexual relations with humans. You've probably 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:28.200 heard of them too, the succubus a female entity, and 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:32.280 an incubus a male entity. I didn't realize these creatures 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:36.000 are gin. Oh, but they are very low le gin, 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:38.360 on the very bottom of the totem pole of gin. 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:42.600 But Jin, nonetheless, and both the succubus and incubus are 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:47.719 after only one thing sexual gratification, and both of them 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:51.240 tend to sexually assault their victims as they sleep without 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:55.360 warning and certainly without consent, a terrifying and you could 0:23:55.400 --> 0:24:00.720 say paralyzing experience. The phenomena of being sexually attacked during 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:04.440 sleep is so common. In two thousand seventeen, the University 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:07.800 of Leiden in the Netherlands conducted a meta study titled 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:12.600 Prevalence Rates of the Incubus Phenomena a Systematic Review and 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:18.120 meta Analysis. The team of researchers reviewed thirteen existing studies 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:20.680 that took a look at the sleep experiences of eight 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:27.280 people from across the globe, including Canada, the United States, China, Japan, Italy, 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:31.800 and Mexico. They found that nearly eleven percent of the 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:35.240 general global population has at one point in their life 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:39.399 experienced something that could be described as an incubus or 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:43.399 succubus encounter, and of course this is not just a 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:47.240 contemporary phenomena. The researchers noted that the experience of being 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:50.960 sexually assaulted while asleep has been documented all the way 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:54.439 back to antiquity, and it seems to occur in every 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:58.720 single population group and every culture in every nation, in 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:03.480 every time in history. Each culture, however, interpreted the phenomena 0:25:03.560 --> 0:25:07.000 in their own cultural context. In Newfoundland they called it 0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:11.720 the Old Hag. In Japan, it's the cannashibari. In Brazil, 0:25:12.040 --> 0:25:15.280 these creatures are called the piece of di era. But 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:17.760 no matter what people call it or how the creature 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:22.920 is viewed literally and otherwise, the actual experience, regardless of 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:27.280 the culture or historical context, was almost exactly the same. 0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:32.760 And here is how the study describes it. The incubus 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:37.359 phenomena is a paroximal sleep related disorder characterized by feeling 0:25:37.400 --> 0:25:40.560 of pressure on the chest while the sleeping individual has 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:44.760 a sensation of being awake. Attacks are typically accompanied by 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:49.560