"Guebre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... singular (whence the French "genie"), fem. Jinniyah; the Div and Rakshah of old Guebre-land and the "Rakshasa," or "Yaksha," of Hinduism. It would be interesting to trace the evident connection, by no means "accidental," of "Jinn" with the "Genius" who came to the Romans through the Asiatic Etruscans, and whose name ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton |
