"Jinn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and his object—so he deemed—existed neither "seven valleys nor seven seas, nor seven mountains of vast magnitude." A Dore needed no assistance of the flying Jinn and the wandering stars on his way, no flying horse, "which when he went along flew, and when he flew the dust ...
— In the Heart of the Vosges - And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" • Matilda Betham-Edwards
... unto her I gave this prayer telling her to soak it in water once a month and drink thereafter. And lo! in two months by the favour of Allah she conceived, and my fame was spread abroad among men. The troubles of others also have I lightened with this prayer,—even a woman possessed by a Jinn, under whose face I burned the prayer, so that the evil spirit fled." He asks from two to four annas for the prayer sheet and finds many a purchaser in the crowd; and now and again he rolls the sheet into a thin tube and ...
— By-Ways of Bombay • S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
... gave a little scream and started back and Stuart realized it was time to reassure her. He rose up, materializing into a tall shape in the shadows like a jinn ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... Asnam and the King of the Jinn: Two Stories Done into English from the Recently Discovered ...
— Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp • John Payne |
