WEBVTT - We Are Not Alone 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:06.440 M Welcome to the Hidden Gin, a production of I 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:30.319 Heart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Minkey. You're 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.160 here because you believe in more than the I can see. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.000 What you believe in may be different than what someone 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.879 else believes in. Some of you might believe in ghosts, 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.839 others may believe in angels, and yet others believe in 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.560 fairies and trolls and lepre cons. But I'm pretty sure 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:53.239 all of you believe in something supernatural, intangible, something that 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:58.480 exists in the shadows of our everyday human experience. And 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.400 just like you, millions of others throughout history and throughout 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.319 the world have believed with religious fervor in a supernatural 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.000 being you may never have heard of, but caricatures of 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.120 that creature have still managed to crack through our pop culture. 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.160 And chances are that at some point in your childhood 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.240 you rubbed a lamp and made a wish, hoping that 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.319 the blue Genie from the film Aladdin would pop out 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:26.400 and grant your wildest desires. You know, the funny, wise 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.440 cracking genie dressed in a confusing mix of Middle Eastern 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:34.000 and South Asian clothing, singing and tap dancing a pretty 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.440 endearing creature all around to children and adults alike. But 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.160 what you may not know is that there is nothing 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.679 childish about genies, and that the silly, grinning, innocuous apparition 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.320 from the Disney adaptations couldn't be further from the truth 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.600 when it comes to the centuries of tradition, folklore, and 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.840 fervent belief in an entire race of powerful and often 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:03.280 terrifying beings. The gin, that's right, our happy blue friend 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.520 from Aladdin, is a gin, a gin from the Arabian 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.040 tale One thousand and one. Night and the gin are 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.880 nothing to laugh about. I'm Robbia Chaudhry, and I'll be 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.440 your guide into the ancient world of the hidden Gin. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:29.520 Welcome and the gen We created a four time from 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:36.320 the smokeless fire of a scorching wind. These words may 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.880 sound like they come from a modern paranormal young adult novel, 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.160 but they're actually almost fift years old, and they come 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:47.400 from the Muslim scripture, Chapter fifteen, verse of the Koran. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.800 We create a four time from the smokeless fire of 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:57.360 a scorching wind. The WII. Here is God himself explaining 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.560 the differences of his creation. Two believers mere mortals, says 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.720 God he created out of a muddy clay, and angels 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.560 he fashioned out of pure light. And then there's this 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:12.200 third category of creation, the gin. God created them fearsome 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.639 from the smokeless flame of a scorching wind, the very 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.320 edge of the flame, indeed the most essential, purest part 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.520 of it, given the description, if you think about it, 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.160 the gin are composed of kind of the opposite elements 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.840 of us humans. We're mostly water and carbon material like 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.000 the Earth itself, while ginn are created from the air 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.440 elements of fire and wind like the Earth. Human beings 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.480 are tangible material, fixed and limited in our physical manifestations, 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:46.480 but gin like living gusts of fiery wind. They are ineffable, powerful, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:51.080 and uncontained. Now, scholars say that this description of gin 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.440 indicates a brilliant flame of the highest intensity mixed with 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.680 a smoldering wind. But it also signifies that maybe the 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.080 gin and are made from the howling flames of Hell itself. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:08.000 They're very composition, smolders and burns, and yet it gives 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:12.240 off no smoke. Now, this may seem counterintuitive and contrary 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.120 to everything we think we know about fires, but believe 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.040 it or not, smokeless flames are completely ordinary. In fact, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.720 you can find dozens of video tutorials online on how 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.719 to create your very own smokeless fire, but good luck 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.880 turning those into gin. Not everyone thinks the smokeless flame 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.159 description is literal, though. Like many things in all scriptures, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.119 there are urns of phrases, figurative passages meant to present 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.599 the contours of an idea and language understandable for the 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.679 time period. Think about it this way. Human beings aren't 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.200 actually made of clay, but we are made of organic compounds, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.799 earthly elements, tangible materials, ashes to ashes, and dusted us 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.359 and science even tells us that we are made of stardust, 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.680 so you get the drift. Likewise, say some scholars, maybe 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.359 the term smoke was flame of a scorching wind actually 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.640 signifies energy. That maybe the gin or pure energy and 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.760 the exist across dimensions that we don't even know exist. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.320 They're able to transform transport, untethered by the laws of 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.320 physics that bind humans, flitting back and forth through planes 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.520 of time and space, unseen to our eyes, which is 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:27.200 why they're called gin, a word that means hidden, unable 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:31.440 to be detected by human senses, concealed from all of us. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.280 But even though we can't see them, just like energy, 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.240 they're everywhere around us. Maybe they're made of a combination 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.440 of the many different kinds of energies we know exist, 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.080 or maybe their elements involved energy sources we haven't even 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:49.320 yet discovered, and maybe we never will. Maybe they're like 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.719 the energy life force that many religions, faith traditions, and 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.880 even indigenous cultures believe is contained within our very own bodies. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.240 You know, those things we called souls. Now, if you're 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.840 a believer, it doesn't really matter what the ginner made of. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.599 You just know they're out there and here, right here, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:10.200 right next to me and next to you. We can't 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.839 see them, but they can see you. And if you're 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.719 not a believer, then maybe by the time the series 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:23.400 is over, you will be. Look, if I'm going to 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.640 be honest, no three Muslims can get together without swapping 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:31.760 jin stories. It's our parallel tradition to time honored campfire 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.880 ghost stories. We just can't help ourselves because well, we 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.200 all have jin stories to tell. But make no mistake, 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.719 Jin stories didn't start in the seventh century in the 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.679 desert of Arabia with the advent of the Muslim religion. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.839 Even though they're mentioned forty times in the scripture the Koran, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.600 the Gin are much more ancient than that, predating the 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:57.520 Koronic Scripture by centuries, and their tales stretch across continents 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:02.040 and millennia. After all, God say that he created them aforetime, 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.120 So when did it all begin? There isn't exactly one 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.760 answer to that question that we can be sure is correct, 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.360 and that's likely because dozens of different traditions and folklore 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.520 merged over time and regions, intermingling and criss crossing like 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.680 a spider's web to create an entire universe of tales. 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.800 There are echoes of the Arabian Gin stories familiar strains 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:28.240 in the spirit myths from primitive Assyria and Babylonia. Gin 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.040 deities were all the Rage and Palmira in ancient Syria, 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:36.240 and historians believe these demigods were called Gene, which in 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:40.600 fact means invisible in Aramaic. But not all these ancient 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:45.040 creatures were worshiped as gods. The Babylonians themselves were steeped 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.280 in magical practices and demon lore, with a vast array 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:53.920 of demonic entities that parallel Jin descriptions like the Atuku, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.920 a malevolent spirit that dwelled in deserts and graveyards, abandoned 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:03.800 desolate spaces, lying wait for unsuspecting humans passing by. There's 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.200 also the Rabis, who which hide in barren spots and 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.880 spring out to attack those that cross its paths. Both 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.600 of these creatures sound like and operate exactly like a 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.880 kind of gin called the ghoul. You'll also find in 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.080 the corpus of Jewish demonology, and yes, that's a thing, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.840 mentions of evil spirits that sound an awful lot like 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.240 the gin's that we encounter in Arabian lore. An ancient 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.880 Arabic translation of the Book of Job from the Hebrew 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.959 Bible even suggests the Queen of Sheba was a Jin, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.160 birth from the union of a human and a demon. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.280 There are dozens and dozens of rabbit holes you can 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.600 fall into as you try to trace the origins of 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.800 Gin lore, but for now we'll stay out of them, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.440 and we'll focus on the vast body of tales that 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.880 arose over centuries from late antiquity onwards from the sands 0:08:52.920 --> 0:09:10.880 of the Middle East. If you're thinking jin are basically ghosts, 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.360 at least as ghosts are understood in the Western imagination. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.280 Well you're not even close. In fact, that gin are 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.560 much more like human beings than haunting, shadowy spirits. The 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.800 gin are born, they eat and drink, they work and 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.440 conduct business, They fall in love, they marry and have children, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.160 and yes, that means they are sexually active. They live 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:36.480 in communities, and they have hierarchies, nations and kingdoms. They 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.200 may profess a religion. They are good and they are evil, 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.760 And just as they live, they die, not for thousands 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.360 of years, but eventually they do die. And they have 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.960 what we would consider superpowers, including the power of shape shifting, 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:55.720 super strength, traveling through the cosmos and different dimensions, and 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.640 all the many kinds of things human beings often wished 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.440 we were capable of. While there isn't much in scriptural 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.719 sources that describes the original creation of the jin, there 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.319 are many origin stories found in medieval writings, ancient folklore, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.880 and that differ from place to place. According to one legend, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.400 the very first gin that God created out of the 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.439 blazing desert wind well before the creation of mankind, was 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:26.240 a gin named assume Bin John Tarnushi. His progeny inherited 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.280 the earth, ruling over it for thousands of years and 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:33.680 giving rise to seventy two jinn kings. The last of 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.000 these kings was named John Iven John, from where the 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.680 name for the entire species of gin comes from. It 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.120 would be tens of thousands of years later that human 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:47.079 beings came into existence and took over with the jinns 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:51.880 once ruled. Another origin stories ties the origin of the 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:56.600 gin very closely to that of man. According to this legend, Eve, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.720 the wife of Adam, gave birth to forty children at 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.640 the same time. We can only care for half of them. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.120 Without telling Adams, she discarded twenty of the children, and 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.560 then she lied to her husband that her brood was 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.280 only the remaining twenty. But Adam had a suspicion, so 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.920 he said a prayer to God, asking that his lost 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.760 children be allowed to live beneath the earth and only 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.760 venture out at night when the rest of mankind slept. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:27.520 These twenty subterranean dwellers became the Gin. The male of 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.560 Southeast Asia believed that the gin arose from three leaves 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.920 of the mangrove tree. Green gin emerged from a leaf 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.959 that flew into the sky. The black gin emerged from 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.720 a leaf that fell at a dark forest gate, and 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.240 white gin from a leaf that ended up in the ocean. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.640 And yet one more origin story can be found in 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.400 a sprawling tenth century book called The Meadows of Gold 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.320 and Minds of Gems, written by a scholar named al Masoudi. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.840 The book itself is a tome on the very history 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.680 of time and the world and all of creation in it, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.880 so naturally it couldn't leave out the gin. According to Almosudi, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.439 God created the first gin, a male from burning wind, 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.520 and from that gin, God created a mate. Not unlike 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.840 the Adam and Eve story, these two came together and 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:20.400 their union resulted in thirty eggs. Each of these thirty eggs, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.599 upon hatching, released a different kind of gin. One of 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.520 the eggs cracked open and out emerged the mother of 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.160 all the kotwebs, the gin that come in the form 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:33.240 of cat. From another egg emerged the Blazes, the demon gin, 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.240 which make their home within the walls. From another egg 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:41.640 where hatched the maradas, which inhabit islands. Another egg produced 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.280 the ghoul. And yes, if that sounds like the kind 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.599 of ghoule you're familiar with, that's because it's one of 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.280 the same thing, And yet from another egg emerged the silas, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.239 which hide in the mountains, and yet others the Wahawe's, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.840 which inhabit the air in the form of winged serpents, 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.000 and so on and so forth. Each of the third 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:07.560 the eggs cracked open, revealing a variant species of Gin. Now, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.400 some of these descriptions may sound familiar to you, and 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.080 they should. Gin in the form of cats, well, that's 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.480 not so far removed from shape shifting, which companions the 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.600 feline familiar winged serpent gins that fly through the air, 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.199 Hello dragons, and the earliest known story about lepre cons 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.040 involves a captured group of them granting three wishes to 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.400 their captor to gain their release. Granting wishes and playing 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.160 tricks on humans seems to be a crossover favorite for 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.959 both the Gin and these Celtic creatures. Some even argue 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.679 that fairies, those tiny, adorable, sparkly flitting creatures we've come 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.520 to associate with glitter and enchantment, actually have a dark 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.200 history that ties neatly with Gin lore, or at least 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.280 there are some interesting parallels they're worth considering. For example, 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.040 according to the lore, both the gin and fairies predate 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.680 human creation. They're both creatures that took up their abode 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.400 in the earth, but eventually withdrew into a world where 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.600 they could be invisible. They both loved to play tricks 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:12.280 on human beings, they live extraordinarily long lives, and most interestingly, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.160 they might have a very similar origin story. According to 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.240 the Celtic lore, fairies are none other than fallen angels, 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.200 having followed Lucifer out of heaven when he rebelled against God. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:29.080 According to a nineteenth century account by folklorist Alexander Carmichael, 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.200 local Irish storytellers relayed this tale of the fallen fairies 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.640 quote doomed to live under the ground and only permitted 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:41.320 to emerge when and where the King permits, these cursed 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.920 fairies weren't allowed out of their hiding places on certain days, 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.440 but on some nights they would light their lamps and sing, 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.600 not of the seed of Adam are we, and Abraham 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.560 is not our father, but of the seed of the 0:14:54.600 --> 0:15:00.960 proud Angel driven forth from heaven. Likewise, in a Muslim tradition, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.000 the rebellious gin also were cast out of heaven following 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.840 their master Lucifer. Given some of the overlap in the lore, 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.760 maybe fairies and leprecrons are manifestations of gin. If you 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.520 were to ask some folks, actually, they'd say, all supernatural 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.280 beings and phenomena are some form of Gin or another, 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.720 whether those beings are playful and harmless or their destructive 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:29.920 and evil UFO sightings. Gin, human possessions, Jin, crop circles. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:36.120 Gin magician David Blaine, Oh, definitely a gin, and believe 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.480 it or not. According to a two thousand six report 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:42.200 in The Economist, factions in Somalia and Ifhanistan have accused 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.360 their enemies of being backed not only by the CIA, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.840 but by malevolent gin. One theory in if Ahanistan holds 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.840 that the Mujahideen scared the Gin out into the world, 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.480 causing disharmony. It is the Gin, they say, who whisper 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:00.320 into the ears of suicide bombers. So while it's seems 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.640 that there are some people who see gin everywhere and 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:07.400 in everything, scholars and enthusiasts have categorized the Gin into 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.600 four broad categories, and each of these four kinds will 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:21.800 once again sound pretty familiar to you. First, there are 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.120 the Gin who live among humans, the ones who inhabit 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.160 our homes right alongside with us, which are called the omar. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.840 After all, we have all heard about house hauntings. Countless 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.480 books and films have been made about supernatural dwellers, often 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.239 evil and violent, that really want their space to themselves. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.560 These beings do everything in their power to get rid 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.960 of whatever hapless family unwittingly moved into their territory. But 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.800 unlike what Hollywood would have you believe, not all of 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.640 our co inhabitants are violent psychopaths. Most of the time, 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.760 they just want to live right alongside with you in 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.720 their own parallel plane without even letting you know that 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.320 they are. Other times, however, they may like to mess 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.879 with you or just let you know that they're in charge. 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.280 In two thousand nine, a Saudi family was so fed 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.840 up with being harassed by gin in their house they 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.000 finally took the gin to court. You heard me right, 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.560 They sued the unseen entity in an actual court of law. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.840 The lawsuit filed by the family, which was joined by 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.080 every member of the family, alleged that the Jin had 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.280 for the previous two years, stolen their cell phones, left 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.159 them threatening voicemails maybe from those very same cell phones, 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.960 helded them with rocks every time they left the house 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.120 at night and frightened the children. They heard voices, first 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.680 a woman's voice, that a man's telling them to get 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:45.600 out of the house, and whispering threats. Now, the court 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.800 took the matter seriously because it wasn't like it was 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.360 just one person making the allegations. It was the entire family, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.000 So they investigated, but of course they found it wasn't 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:00.720 easy to substantiate the charges. Many different media was reported 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.520 the case, which seems to suggest it was unusual enough 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.160 to make the news, although it would be great fun 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:10.640 to exclusively have a jin docket. Anyway, there isn't any 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.200 information out there about the court's ultimate verdict, and the 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.159 lawyer in me can't help but wonder what damages the 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.640 family was asking for. Do they want their cell phones back, 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:24.040 an apology for the voicemails and exorcism. Well, what we 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.440 do know is the family eventually just moved out, So 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:32.879 I guess you could say the defendant one. Then there 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.480 are the kind of gin that terrify every living parent 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.880 on earth. If you've ever raised some little ones, at 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.800 some point you may have seen your child communicating with 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.879 something or someone invisible to you, but not invisible to 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.560 your child. We've all seen that spooky black and white 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.639 child monitor video footage where some toddler in a crib 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:59.679 is deep in conversation, babbling, laughing, pointing, responding to what 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.040 looks like nothing there at all. It could be that 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.639 the child is in fact having a chat with an arwa, 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.360 the kind of gin that just love babies. You could 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.040 call them baby whisperers. These gin attacks themselves to small 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.600 children many times. It's not out of any malice, but 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.520 because they're kind of baby crazy. They love the coops 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.160 and gurgles and innocent wonder as much as we do. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.120 Maybe they even love that fresh baby powder and mixed 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.679 with warm milk smell. Some of them can't stand it 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.800 if someone is mean to a child. They are there 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.879 to play with and protect their tiny friends. That doesn't 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.480 mean there aren't others that love to torment children, but 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.320 most just take advantage of the fact that the children 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.600 are more receptive to them. Unlike adults. The veil between 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.879 the scene and the unseen is thinner for little ones, 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.120 and it's believed that both animals and children are able 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:59.160 to see gin and communicate with them easily. A two 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.800 thousand six article titled of children. Engin in the Journal 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:08.000 of Cultural Anthropology chronicled just such a situation. The author, 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.040 a researcher staying at the home of her professor, was 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.679 shocked to learn that his family had for years lived 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:18.240 with multiple gin in their home. The gin had apparently 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.200 been gifted to them by an acquaintance, if we could 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.280 call that a gift, an acquaintance who inherited them from 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.600 his own father. But the acquaintance apparently had too many 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.440 jin to know what to do with, so he sent 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.840 a group of his gin companions to the home of 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.760 his friend, the professor, gifting him one jin for every 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.520 male member of the family. But the jin didn't communicate 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.439 with the family through the male members that they had 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:45.440 been assigned to. Instead, their main conduit was the eight 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:49.119 year old daughter of the family, Mariam. Mariam was the 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.080 only member of the family who could see the jin, 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:55.320 see them actually interspersed with her family, hanging out and 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.280 about with them. She could read with a jin desired 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.359 in the palms of her hands, and when family members 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.440 had questions or needed advice from the gin, little muddy 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.919 Um was the one to pass on the message. Once 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.520 a gin told muddy Um he really wanted to experience 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:14.240 what human food tasted like. She told her father, the Professor, 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.000 and with his permission, she told the jin to go 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:21.239 ahead and enter her father's body to find out. And 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.200 so apparently that's exactly what the gin did. The Professor 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:29.000 was suddenly seized with an uncontrollable appetite, and he ate 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:32.639 and ate and ate until the household ran out of food. 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:36.320 The gin that muddy Um and her family felt closest 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:40.080 to was named Soleiman. He was thousands of years old, 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.400 older even than Christianity, and muddy Um described him as 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.240 tall with the long white beard, and he wore clean, 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:51.679 spotless white clothing. While he was usually serious, he was 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:55.240 very gentle, especially with muddy Um. The child was never 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:59.400 frightened by him. For years, the family itself never interacted 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.560 with the gin except through muddy Um, and in effect, 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.680 this female child commanded a great deal of power over 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.600 them in a time and place where female children might 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:13.000 not otherwise. Eventually, Muddyum lost her ability as childhood gave 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:17.600 away to puberty. The family tried to get her younger sister, Fatima, 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:21.040 to take her place, but Fatima was not as willing 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:23.960 a medium as muddy Um. She was scared of the gin, 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:26.199 and also upset that they did not seem to be 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.680 doing her bidding. Eventually, the family just kind of gave 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:31.960 the gin back to their acquaintance who had gifted it 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:35.399 to them in the first place. They're lucky that the 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:39.600 parting was amicable, because it isn't always like that, which 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:43.160 brings us to the third broad category of gin, which 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:47.320 all kind of fall within a spectrum of well evil. 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.679 The least powerful of all the evil gin are the Shyadine, 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:04.040 and if you think that word sounds familiar, it should 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:08.119 because it's Arabic for a bunch of Satan's. The Shayatine 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:11.640 keep busy inspiring mankind to do evil deeds through whisperers 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:15.479 and black thoughts. Then there are the marid, which are 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:18.560 powerful gin that can be summoned by black magic, who 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:21.720 only do the opposite of what they're commanded, and who 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:25.639 are related to water elements living around lakes, waterfalls, rivers, 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:31.080 oceans I think mermaids, but really terrifying ones. Finally, there 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:35.280 are the Ifrit, known to be the largest, fastest, strongest, 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:38.800 coming in all shapes and sizes and abilities, and the 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:42.600 most evil of them all. You could even call them demons, 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:45.520 and some say that the angry, vengeful spirits of those 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:49.640 who died violent unnatural debts could also be a free. 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:52.800 You might be surprised to know that the happy dancing 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.920 genie in a bottle that comes from the Arabian tail 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:58.600 in One thousand and one Nights is in fact, and 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:01.560 a free and a freath have made their way into 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:05.200 other modern Western pop culture, and a freak character makes 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:08.199 an appearance in both the television series True Blood and 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:12.040 the blockbuster Neil game and novel American Gods. And if 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:13.919 you're a gamer, you might know that you can summon 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:17.840 an a freat in the Final Fantasy video game. These 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:22.439 blips of publicity notwithstanding, undeniably, the most infamous account of 0:24:22.480 --> 0:24:25.879 the freet is thousands of years old, and it's the 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:28.560 story of the gin that were believed to be enslaved 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:33.439 by the great Biblical King Solomon. That's right. One of 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:36.760 the many divine abilities granted to the legendary King Solomon 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:40.879 was a power to control the jin. According to the 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.560 Muslim tradition, it was through this power that Solomon was 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.240 able to become one of the most powerful rulers the 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:50.359 world has ever seen. King Solomon commanded the legions of 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:53.480 Gin to do his bidding, sending Jin armies to fight 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:56.920 off his enemies and using Gin labor to build never 0:24:57.000 --> 0:25:02.960 before seen architectural marvels like the First Temple of Jerusalem. 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:06.280 In fact, the city of Jerusalem itself, along with its 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:10.320 ancient walls, is said to be built by Solomon's Jin slaves. 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:14.439 There are rabbinical interpretations that say that the massive stones 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:18.239 that built the temple cried out with actual voices and 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:22.720 moved themselves to the construction site. Other stories say that 0:25:22.760 --> 0:25:26.159 the female Jin mined the great stones from quarries and 0:25:26.240 --> 0:25:29.320 carried them to the sacred site, accounting for the appearance 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:33.400 of the stones moving by themselves. There are Hebrew rabbinical 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:37.960