Jinn

thumb|Illustration of the Devil on Codex Gigas, early thirteenth century Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in Abrahamic religions who entices humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the , or 'evil inclination'. In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as a fallen angel or jinn who has rebelled against God, who nevertheless allows him temporary power over the fallen world and a host of demons.

Jinn (Arabic: جِنّ‎), also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies, are supernatural beings in pre-Islamic Arabian religion and Islam. Like humans, they are accountable for their deeds and can be either believers (''Mu'minun) or unbelievers (kuffar''), depending on whether they accept God's guidance.

thumb|Angels in Islam|Angels honor Adam, except Iblis, who refuses. Painting from an illustrated subsection containing Bal'ami's Persian rendition of the Annals in a much larger Herat manuscript.

Al-Jinn (, "The Jinn") is the 72nd chapter (sūrah) of the Quran with 28 verses (āyāt). The name as well as the topic of this chapter is jinn. In the Quran, it is stated in that humans are created from the earth and jinn from smokeless fire.

thumb|"Amine Discovered with the Goule", from the story of Sidi Nouman in the One Thousand and One Nights In folklore, a ghoul (from , '''') is a demon-like being or monstrous humanoid, often associated with graveyards and the consumption of human flesh. The concept of the ghoul originated in pre-Islamic Arabian religion. Modern fiction often uses the term to label a specific kind of monster.

thumb|The ifrit Arghan's eyes are slightly crossed and his orange skin spotted all over; he carries a chest over the waters on behalf of Hamza, from an illustration in the Hamzanama

ghost in Indian culture

Supposed paranormal phenomenon

thumb|220px|right|Mount Teide on Tenerife, according to mythology, was the home of Guayota. Guayota, in Guanche mythology of Tenerife (the Canary Islands), was the principal malignant deity and Achamán's adversary.

Islamic healing from demon and jinn intrusion

female mythological figure in northern Moroccan folklore

thumb|Two Marids depicted in Albert Letchford's illustrations to Burton's translation of Arabian Nights A marid () is a type of devil (shayṭān) in Islamic tradition. The Arabic word, meaning "rebellious," is applied to such supernatural beings. As a substantive it refers to a chthonic demon not much dissimilar to the ʿifrīt.

thumb|Zār ceremony on Hormuz Island

Popobawa, also Popo Bawa, is the name of an evil spirit or shetani, which is believed by residents of Zanzibar to have first appeared on the Tanzanian island of Pemba. In 1995, it was the focus of a major outbreak of mass hysteria or panic which spread from Pemba to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago, and across to Dar es Salaam and other urban centres on the East African coast.

thumb|The sheyd Asmodeus|Ashmodai () in birdlike form, with typical rooster feet, as depicted in Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae, 1775 thumb|Child sacrifice to the sheyd Molekh (), showing the typical depiction of the Ammonite deity Moloch of the [[Old Testament in medieval and modern sources (illustration by Charles Foster for Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, 1897)]]

thumb|"A Camel and Three Strange Single-handed and Single-legged Creatures", Muhammad ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-i Nathani, from Walters Ms. W.659, a Turkish version of The Wonders of Creation In Arab culture, the nasnās (, plural nisānīs) is a monopod, a monstrous creature. According to Edward William Lane, the 19th-century translator of One Thousand and One Nights, a nasnas is "half a human being; having half a head, half a body, one arm, one leg, with which it hops with much agility".

Pelesit () is a type of familiar spirit in Malay folklore. It is generally a cricket, or occasionally a grasshopper. The term literally means "buzzer" from the root word lesit meaning to buzz or whizz, as an insect does. They are also called Palasik.

Sheshe () in Persian mythology is a jinni-like creature that strangles newborn babies on 6th day of their lives.

A Tibicena, also known as Guacanchas, was a mythological creature of the Guanches, pre-Hispanic inhabitants of the Canary Islands. Tibicenas were imagined to be demons or genies who had the bodies of great wild dogs with red eyes, covered by long, black fur. They lived in deep caves inside the mountains.

term for a recurring motif in Assyrian and Near Eastern sculptures

The polong is a type of familiar spirit in Malay folklore. It has the appearance of a miniature woman, the size of the first joint of the finger.

name given to a supernatural creature, used to explain the phenomenon of sleep paralysis

Supernatural creature

spirit of the water

The Malay and Indonesian word for spirit or ghost

A qutrub () in Arabian folklore is a type of jinn or demon, likened to an "Arabian 'werewolf'", similar to a ghoul because it was said to haunt graveyards and eat corpses.