ABSTRACT
The jnūn are generally lacking in individuality Their characteristics are mostly those of the species and the tribe. Different tribes of them, as we have seen, may have different religions, different dispositions of mind, and different colours, and attack people in different circumstances and on different days. There are also certain jnūn who have individual names, such as the jẹnn saints, some disease spirits, and others whose names play an important part in many invocations and charms. In Fez there was an 'afrīts by name 'Allů, who lived in a spring still known under the name 'Ain 'Allů, but he was killed by Mûläi Idrīs; the spring is situated in the vicinity of Mûläi Idrīs' sanctuary. Magicians read in their books about "the seven kings" of the jnūn (xeb'a ḏe l-mulūk) whose names are stated somewhat differently in different books. According to one version they are Muḏhhib ("gilder"), Merra, al-Aḥmar ("the red"), Borqān ("gleaming"), Šemhūreš, al-Abyaḍ ("the white"), and Mīmūn ("lucky"). 1 Of these personages Mīmūn is popularly known as a jẹnn saint by name Sîdi Mîmūn or Mä́imūn, and Šemhūreš is also much spoken of, under the name of Šĕmhârůš. He had a son called sů́lṭān l-kḥal, "the black sultan"; and when he died he also left behind a daughter, who is still alive and assists her own sex in practising witchcraft. But all these individuals are very shadowy beings without any distinct personality.
