Djinn

Djinn are a rare race of supernatural cave dwelling hermits. They have been encountered by a few hunters including Sam and Dean Winchester.

Characteristics
Djinn are humanoid creatures with tattooed skin that prefer to live in large ruins with a lot of places to hide. They feed on human blood and can poison their victims with a touch. The posion can be used either to kill their victims quickly, or to leave victims in a coma-like state while the djinn feeds on their blood over a long period of time. Djinn are depicted in the Koran as beings with godlike powers. Contemporary lore depicts them as genies and are able to read a person's mind to learn their deepest desires; however, the djinn do not truly grant wishes like the genies of lore. Instead, using their poison, the djinn causes hallucinations so powerful that the immobilized victim thinks he or she is actually living in the reality the Djinn implanted.

The fantasy universe differs among the victims but it is generally where they believe their wish has been granted. Victims under the influence of the Djinn could see other victims as apparitions within their fantasy. At their peak, these fantasies, are incredibly detailed, to the point were they include a fantasy version of the Djinn who infected him, and his victims. Time passes slowly enough in the fantasy universe that the djinn's victims will feel as if they are living an entire lifetime before their physical bodies die. The only way to escape from the Fantasy unvierse, is for the person to comit suicide, in which case they wake up. However if they die in the fantasy from anything other than their own hand, they will die in real life. There is an antidote to Djinn posion, known to some hunter circles. When djinn access their powers, either both their eyes and hands glow blue, or their tattoos move and extend down their arms.

Powers and Abilities

 * Hallucinogenic touch - This primary ability of the djinn could be used on different intensities. They could cause a victim to pass out and live their deepest desires in their dream. This is very effective that over time, an ordinary person could potentially waste away while in a deep sleep. People found in the victim's dream could even convince the victim that what is happening is real. Alternatively, the djinn could also choose to infect a target with a milder form of hallucination. This keeps the victim awake and still enables interaction with his or her environment, but still creates hallucinations that could confuse or potentially destabilize the victim's mental state.
 * Supernatural Strength - They are notably stronger than humans, able to easily over power them.
 * Supernatural Speed - Djinns can move incredibly fast, able to suddenly appear and ambush others.
 * Shapeshifting - They can change their form to pass as humans.
 * Immortality - They can potentially live forever
 * Telepathy - They can read people's minds and learn their greatest desires or fears.

Vulnerabilities

 * Silver and lamb's blood - A silver knife dipped in lamb's blood can kill a djinn.

Season 2
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 the fantasy universe 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 to each other. 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 Dean, and starts to free the latter's rope bonds 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.

Season 6
Djinn are hunting Dean and Sam and they are not "cave-dwelling hermits," but are able to pass as human. A djinn named Brigitta poses as a waitress and touches Dean's arm to infect him with her poison. Her touch makes Dean hallucinate his worst fears, including the return of Azazel. He seems on the verge of a panic attack when he is saved by Sam, who injects him with an antidote to the djinn's poison. Sam tells Dean that he was also poisoned by the djinn and that they both would have died without the antidote, which he got from their grandfather Samuel Campbell.

After getting Lisa and Ben Braeden to safety, Dean and Sam act as bait for the djinn. Instead of coming for them directly, the djinn attack and poison Dean's neighbor Sid and his wife. Dean goes to try and save them, but finds them dead with their eyes white. It is unclear if they had time to hallucinate, or if the dose of poison was so high that they died instantly. While Dean checks on Sid and his wife, he is attacked by Brigitta and another djinn. Brigitta gives Dean a second, stronger dose of poison through her touch and tells him, "That's for our father," implying that the djinn Sam and Dean killed in 2007 was her father, and the other two djinn with her are her brothers.

The djinn are eventually overpowered by Sam and Samuel, and, while Sam is in Sid's house rescuing Dean, Samuel and Christian Campbell kidnap Brigitta.

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 they don't have time and have to leave her. Later, Crowley comes to her cell, and she backs away from him fearfully. She is spared from further torture when Crowley focused his attention on the escape of the Winchesters. She is presumably killed later when Castiel fired off his White Light on the entire warehouse containing the captured monsters.

Lore
More commonly known as a genie, djinn (or jinn) are supernatural creatures in Arab folklore and Islamic teachings which occupy a parallel world to that of mankind. Like humans, they can be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent. 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 originated in the tales from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.

Unlike the Djinns on Supernatural, Djinns in Traditional lore are not a type of monster, but a race of supernatural beings like Angels and Demons.

Appearances

 * Season 2
 * What Is And What Should Never Be


 * Season 6
 * Exile On Main St.
 * Caged Heat