Djinn are a rare race of supernatural cave dwelling hermits. They have been encountered by a few hunters including Sam and Dean Winchester.
Characteristics
A Djinn's depiction
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. Their poison causes reality-altering hallucinations and 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 best classified 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, they send their victims into a fantasy universe where they believe their wish has been granted while the djinn can drink their blood slowly over the course of days. Time passes slowly enough in the fantasy universe that the djinn's victims will feel as if they're living an entire lifetime before their physical bodies die. When djinn access their powers, either their eyes and hands glow blue, or their tattoos move and extend down their arms.
Powers and Abilities
Djinn's power.
- Hallucinogenic touch - They can cause any person they want to pass out and have and dream than their greatest wish came true. There hullicinations are so real, that even the Djinn who infected them and his victims are included in the hullicination. The hullicination also plays out like reality does, for example when Dean was trapped in his fantasy iniverse, all the people he didn't save where dead in the fantasy universe. It is possible to see real things events from the fantasy, as such the Djinn may occasionally need to reinfect its victims, the only way to escape is to kill yourself in the dream.
- Super strength - They are notably stronger than humans.
- Shapeshifting - They can change their form to pass as humans.
- Immortality - They can live forever
- Telepathy - They can read people's minds and learn their greatest desires.
Vulnerabilities
- Silver and lamb's blood - A silver knife dipped in lamb's blood can kill a djinn.
Season 2
A djinn attacks Dean.
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.
Dean kills the djinn.
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.
Season 6
Brigitta touches Dean's arm to infect him with her poison.
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 further torture when Crowley must deal with the escaped Winchesters.
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.