Djinn

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Djinn
Powers and Abilities	Poisons victims with a touch, causing reality-altering hallucinations.
Vulnerabilities	Silver knife dipped in lamb’s blood
Appearance	Humanoid with tattooed skin.
Episode(s)	2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be 6.01 Exile On Main St. 6.10 Caged Heat

2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be

Dean and Sam are tracking a Djinn. Sam's research says that they live in "ruins, usually –- the bigger, the better. More places to hide."

In a warehouse, Dean finds the Djinn. It knocks people out and then they enter a dream-like state. They are best classified as genies and share the same characteristics, but with a little twist. Instead of having wishes granted, the person is sent into a fantasy universe, while the djinn feeds on their blood over a long period of time. When Dean is attacked by one, his Wish Verse is based on his desire that his mother never died. In this alternate reality Dean and Sam are not hunters, and have not become close. Dean is wakes himself up by killing himself inside the vision, waking himself up. Once returned to reality, Sam proceeds to cut him down before being attacked by the Djinn. Dean manages to break free and stab the Djinn with a silver knife dipped in lamb’s blood to kill it.

6.01 Exile On Main St.

Djinn are hunting Dean and Sam to take revenge for the Djinn the brothers killed 5 years ago. Now, however, they are not "cave-dwelling hermits" but are able to pass as human. They still have prominent tattoos that can now move across their skin.

When Dean is poisoned by a Djinn who is posing as a waitress called Brigitta, he starts to hallucinate his worst fears including the return of Azazel. He is saved by Sam, who has obtained an antidote to the Djinn's poison from Samuel Campbell. After getting Lisa and Ben to safety, Dean and Sam act as bait for the Djinn. When his neighbor Sid and his wife are killed, Dean is also attacked, and again is poisoned. Sam and his grandfather defeat the Djinn.

Previously, Djinn captured victims by creating high realistic hallucinations that 'fulfilled' wishes, and then kept the victims alive to feed on them over time. Also, when attacked by a Djinn the first time, Dean was able to wake himself up out of the hallucination. These new Djinn cause nightmaric visions that torture the victims. In this case, an antidote is required or else the sufferer dies quickly.

6.10 Caged Heat

Sam, Dean, Castiel, and Meg encounter the djinn Brigitta in Crowley's monster jail. She is chained in a cell, and seems terrified. She begs them to free her, but there is no time.

Later Crowley comes to her cell, and she backs away from him fearfully.

Djinn in lore

More commonly known as a genie, djinn are a race of supernatural creatures dating back to Arabian mythology.

In Islam, according to the Qu'ran the Djinn were created by Allah from a smokeless fire.

The focus in Western culture has been on the djinn or genie's ability to grant wishes, which orginated in the tales from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.

• Djinn in Islamic lore