Word: jinnie
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...century. An illustration of Karachi's surviving cultural diversity: at a one-room shrine that has more to do with African tribalism than Islam, women flock to see Mushkan, a male Sheedi medium in white, womanly robes. When he goes into a trance, he says he communicates with his jinni in Arabic, Urdu and Swahili. Karachi's demons, it seems, are cosmopolitan...
...comic medieval fantasy. Miramax will shortly begin work on a movie version of the best-selling Artemis Fowl books, a hot contender for the post--Harry Potter sweepstakes, and the company paid seven figures for book and film rights to the Bartimaeus trilogy, a series of novels about a jinni and a young magician by British writer Jonathan Stroud. Not to be outdone, Disney reportedly paid nearly $8 million for the film, theme-park and multimedia rights to Clive Barker's fantasy novel Abarat...
...Bottle Party, a bachelor, browsing through an old curiosity shop, finds a bottle in which a jinni is stoppered. He buys it, and makes the poor devil work day & night to find him women. Yet the jinni somehow finds time to fall in love with his master's favorite, The Most Beautiful Girl in the Whole World. Puzzled by his mistress's indifference, the bachelor pops himself into the bottle where he keeps her to see if she has a lover there. While he is investigating, the jinni thumbs the cork back in, and takes over where...
...fragments of obscure Indian tribes, having wandered across Asia and Europe, turned up in Britain. Englishmen thought the swarthy nomads were Egyptians, shortened the word to gypsies. Gypsies did not mind. To them all gorgios (nongypsies) were boro dinellos (big fools) to be tricked and preyed on by the jinni Romanis (clever gypsies). Except for the contacts inevitable in dukkering (fortunetelling), dooking gri (casting a spell on horses to lower their value and price) or drabbing baulor (poisoning a farmer's pigs so that the gypsies could buy the carcasses cheaply for food), gypsies wanted no part...
...speaking pensively between sips of soup: "What is war? Who is the enemy? What is he? We can only grasp at the shape of the antagonist before us, and then when you think you've solved the mystery of his personality, he vanishes into thin air like a jinni. . . . What makes me cross is that by evening he knows exactly where we are, but we don't know where he is 'or what...