Djinn
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| Powers and Abilities | Poisons victims with a touch, causing reality-altering hallucinations. Can read minds. |
| 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 |
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Djinn in Supernatural
Djinn are humanoid creatures that have tattooed skin and feed on human blood. They prefer to live in large ruins with a lot of places to hide.[1] They have the ability to read minds and poison their victims with a touch, and their poison can cause reality-altering hallucinations that leave a person in a coma-like state while the djinn feeds on their blood over a long period of time.[1][2] Djinn can also use their poison to kill a victim quickly.[2] They are best classified as genies and share the same characteristics, but with a little twist: instead of granting wishes, they send their victims into a fantasy universe.[1] Either their eyes and hands glow blue when they access their powers,[1] or their tattoos move and extend down their arms.[2]
Powers and Abilities
Djinn:
- Can poison others with a touch. Their poison causes hallucinations which the Djinn can control.[1] In large doses, it can cause death.[2]
- Can read minds.[1]
Weaknesses
- Silver and lamb's blood. A silver knife dipped in lamb's blood can kill a Djinn.[1]
Appearances
2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be
Dean and Sam are tracking a Djinn, and when Sam tells Dean that, according to his research, they live in "ruins, usually –- the bigger, the better," Dean recalls a warehouse that he passed a while back and decides to investigate it on his own. In the warehouse, Dean finds the Djinn but is overpowered and poisoned. After he is poisoned, he finds himself in a Wish Verse based on his innermost desire for his mother not to have been killed when he was a child. In this alternate reality, Dean and Sam are not hunters, and so have not become close. Dean wants to believe that the djinn granted his wish, but becomes convinced that he is only dreaming. He wakes himself up by killing himself inside the vision, and when he returns to reality he is bound and weak. Sam is there trying to wake him, and starts 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, killing 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.[3] According to the Qu'ran, the Djinn were created by Allah from a smokeless fire.[4] The focus in Western culture has been on the djinn or genie's ability to grant wishes, which originated in the tales from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.[5]
