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16 Seymour, op. cit., pp. 133-134.

1 A phonetic pronunciation.

2 Years later, Rosemary was told by a source who encountered two reptilian creatures in
New Mexico wearing belts that, when touched, enabled them to pass through walls.
Were these belts related to the technology the military was seeking in Saudi Arabia?

3 Jibril is Gabriel in Judaic and Christian lore.

4 The Tertiary period began about 65 million years ago and ended approximately 1.8
million years ago.

1 Outcast or cursed one.

2 Criminals or people who do evil deeds.

3 Devils or evil djinn and men.

4 Trustee of affairs.

1 The Thief of Bagdad (1940) is a British fantasy film produced by Alexander Korda,
and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, and Tim Whelan. It starred child
actor Sabu, in addition to Conrad Veidt, John Justin, June Duprez, and a brillant
performance by Rex Ingram as the djinni.

2 This method of imprisonment was not a lamp as told in The Book of 1001 Nights but
a brass bottle with a lead stopper and covered with a magnetic iron mesh with the seal
of King Solomon or one of his priests,

3 See chapter 2 about Phil Imbrogno's journey to Saudi Arabia.

4 The black king of the djinn, Al-Masjid al-Aswad is mentioned in a fifteenth-century
Arabic manuscript known as Kitab al-Bulban (The Book of Wonders).

1 E. I. Brill's First Encyclopedia ofIslam 1913-1936 (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill
Academic Publishers, 1993), vol. VII, p. 1046.

2 AI-Rahman, 33-35.

3 Sahib al jaami, 8.217. footnote 3.

4 AI-Israa, 65, and Al-Saba, 20-21.

5 Al-Israa, 62.

6 Edward William Lane, The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (London: J.
M. Dent & Sons, 1908), p. 230.

7 Ibid., p. 231.

8 AI-Anfaal, 48.

9 This story has Judeo-Christian roots, but is told also in Islam as an example of the
deceits of the devil (evil djinn).

10 Al-Shuaraa, 210-212, and Al-Isra, 88.

11 In chapter 5, we noted the cautions against urinating and dumping garbage in holes,
and related the story of the little man in the hole whose roof was inadvertently
disturbed by an innocent hiker.

12 Barbara Drieskens, Living with Djinns: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible
in Cairo (London: SAQI, 2008), p. 96.

13 Ibid., 121.

14 Drieskens, op. cit., p. 70.

15 Ibid., p. 170.

16 Sahih al-Jaami, Ibid.

17 Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar, The World of the jinn and Devils (Boulder, CO: AIBasheer Publications and Translations, 1998), p. 18.

18 Drieskens, op. cit., 102.

19 The details of the Bell Witch case are taken from Rosemary's The Encyclopedia of
Ghosts and Spirits, 3rd. ed. (New York: Facts On File, 2007), pp. 48-52.

1 Ramadan was already a holy month for the Arabs before Islam had spread.

2 AI-Alaq, 96.1-4.

3 Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia ofAngels, 2nd ed. (New York: Facts On File,
2004), p. 266.

4 AI-Qadr 97.1-5.

5 The World of Jinn and Its Secrets." http://www.islamonline.net/
servlet/Satellite?pagename= Islam Online-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/
FatwaE&cid=1119503543990

6 Isaiah 14:12.

7 Some Muslims believe the qarin is a separate type of entity from the djinn.

8 Barbara Drieskens, Living with Djinn: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible
in Cairo (London: SAQI, 2006), p. 181.

9 Al-Oaf, 27.

10 Sahih Muslim, 6757.

11 http://www.thewaytotruth.org/metaphysicaldimension/angels.html. Accessed
October 2010.

13 Al-Jinn, 8-9.

14 This story shows the gullibility of djinn, and has parallels to stories in Christian lore
about how easily the devil can be fooled.

12 Another similarity to the Watchers.

15 Sahib al-Bukhari, vol. 5, book 58, no. 200.

16 Corinthians 11:14.

1 Lady Wilde, Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions ofIreland (Boston:
Ticknor & Co., 1887), p. 1.

2 Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica (Edinburgh: T. & A. Constable, 1900), p.
353.

3 AI-Araf, 7.27.

4 In Norwegian lore, the fairies are the offspring of Adam and his first wife, Lilith,
rather than Eve.

5 "Theories of Fairy Origins," http://waeshael.home.att.net/origins.htm#17.

6 Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar, The World ofjinn andDevils (Boulder, CO: AI-Basheer
Publications and Translations, 1998), p. 69.

7 Al-Araf, 15-16.

8 Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia (Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1969), p. 27.

10 AI-Israa, 62.

11 AI-Asaaf, 14-15.

9 Wilde, op. cit., p. 208.

12 W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (New York: Carroll Publishing Group, 1990. First published 1911), p. 36.

13 Ibid., 49.

14 AI-Asqhar, op. cit., p.131.

15 Ibid., p. 136.

16 Evans-Wentz, op. cit., p. 39.

17 "The Welsh Fairy Book," http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/wfb/wfb29.htm.
Accessed November 2010.

18 Briggs, op. cit., pp. 159-60.

19 William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Men and Women, Ghouls and Faeries (London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893), p. 93.

20 D. A. McManus, The Middle Kingdom: The Faerie World ofIreland (London: Max
Parrish), 1959, pp. 62-63.

21 Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia ofDemons &Demonology (New York: Facts
On File, 2009), p. 85.

22 Martin William, "Collecteana III In the Isle of Man" (Folk-Lore, vol. 3, 1902), p.
186.

23 Al-Ashqar, op. cit., p. 131.

24 "The Welsh Fairy Book," op. cit.

25 Katharine Briggs, The Vanishing People (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), p. 151.

26 Guiley, op. cit., pp. 85-86.

27 Ibid., p. 29.

28 Drieskens, op.cit., p. 99.

29 No one knows precisely where the kingdom of Sheba was located, but modern
historians believe it was in or near modern-day Yemen.

30 AI-Ashqar, op. cit., p. 22.

31 Barbara Drieskens, Living with Djinns: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible
in Cairo (London: SAQI, 2006), p. 182.

32 Ibid., pp. 182-83.

33 Kathleen Krull, A Pot O' Gold: A Treasury ofIrish Stories, Poetry, Folklore, and (of
Course) Blarney (Hyperion Books for Children, 2004), pp. 147-151.

1 Dr. J.Allen Hynek (1910-1986) was an astronomer best remembered for his UFO
research. Hynek acted as scientific adviser to UFO studies undertaken by the US Air
Force under Project Sign (1947-1949), Project Grudge (1949-1952), and Project
Blue Book (1952-1969). Hynek coined the term "close encounter."

3 An-Nas, 114.

2 The term "high strangeness" was used by Hynek to describe those UFO cases that did
not fit the normal bulk of reports. They include electromagnetic effects, abductions,
the appearance of strange beings, and psychic communication with an alien
intelligence.

1 NASA/AMES Research Center: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/
lookingatearth/29dec_magneticfield.html. Accessed October 2010.

2 Kitt Peak National Observatory supports the most diverse collection of astronomical observatories on earth for nighttime optical and infrared astronomy, and daytime
study of the sun. Kitt Peak is located 56 miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona.

3 NIDS was created by real estate developer Robert Bigelow of Las Vegas in 1995 as a
privately funded organization to scientifically investigate UFO and paranormal phenomena, and to advance fringe science. It was discontinued in 2004. NIDS involved
teams of scientists and researchers.

4 Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker (New York: Paraview/
Pocket Books, 2005), p. 6.

5 Ibid., p. 64.

6 Ibid., p. 209.

7 Christopher O'Brien, Stalking the Tricksters, Shapeshifters, Skinwalkers, Dark Adepts,
and 2012 (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2009), pp. 158-159.

1 A book of Muslim short stories.

2 Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia ofDemons &Demonology (New York: Facts
On File, 2009), pp. 100-104.

3 John D. Seymour, Tales ofKing Solomon (London: Oxford University Press, 1924),
p. 58.

4 Ibid., p. 57.

5 The Black Pullet, http://www.scribd.com/doc/11062300/The-Black-Pullet-Science
-of-Magical-Talismans, p. 13. Accessed November 2010.

6 Children up to the ages of twelve to fourteen are considered immune to the influences and dangers of djinn.

7 Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft &Wicca, 3rd ed. (New
York: Facts On File, 2008), p. 172.

8 Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, "Visions of the Jinn: Ibn Taymeeyah's Essay on the
Jinn," http://islaam.com//Article.aspx?id=75. Accessed November 2010.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid.

11 Author interview.

12 The authors know of a case involving a youth who attempted this method and was
mentally destabilized by the djinni. Details cannot be divulged to protect privacy,
but the youth was institutionalized, and a great deal of money was spent to hire an
adept in another country who could command a powerful enough djinni to cast out
the one afflicting the youth.

13 AI-Luqmaan, 20.

14 Mahmood Jawaid, Secrets ofAngels, Demons, Satan and jinn: Decoding Their Nature
through Quran and Science (self-published, 2006), pp. 57-59.

15 Ibid., 221-223.

16 Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Rituals (New York: Avon Books,1972), p. x.

17 Sahib Muslim, 39.6754.

18 In some modern views, Iblis' throne is located in the Bermuda Triangle, and all the
disappearing ships are sacrifices to him.

19 H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu, 1926. Published online at http://dagonbytes
.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecallofcthulhu.htm. Accessed November 2010.

20 Carl L. Johnson, "Providence's Master Spirit," revised November 2009, in correspondence to the authors.

21 LaVey, op. cit.

22 Guiley, The Encyclopedia ofDemons & Demonology, op. cit., p. 46.

23 Ibid., p. 40.

24 The story of the development of the MiniBox is featured in Talking with the Dead
(Tor, 2011), co-authored by Rosemary and George Noory, the host of Coast to Coast
AM.

25 Short Wave Listeners.

1 As noted earlier concerning zar cases, cajoling, reconciliation, and bribery are sometimes used to appease possessing djinn who cause domestic problems.

2 Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, An Taymeeyah's Fssay on the jinn (Demons) (New Delhi:
Islamic Books Service, 2002), p. 81.

3 Umar Sulaiman al-Ashgar, The World of the jinn and Devils (Boulder, CO: Al Basheer
Co., 1998), p. 205.

4 Sahib a1 Bukhari, vol. 6, p. 491, no. 530.

5 An Taymeeyab's Essay on the jinn (Demons), op. cit., p. 76.

6 Sahib Muslim, Vol. I, pp. 273-274, no. 1106.

7 According to Saad 38:35, Solomon's prayer was "My Lord forgive me and grant me
sovereignty not allowed to anyone after me."

8 Barbara Drieskens, Living with Djinns: Understanding and Dealing with the Invisible
in Cairo (London: SAQI, 2008), p. 90.

9 An Tameeyah' Essay on the jinn (Demons) op. cit., pp. 107-108.

10 http://www.inter-islam.org/faith/jinn2.html#Exorcism. Accessed October 2010.

11 Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Hadith Musnad, vol. 4, p. 170.

12 Flavius Joseph us, The Antiquities of the Jews, pp. 250-251.

13 In Jewish lore from the book of Tobit, the archangel Raphael teaches the young man
Tobias how to exorcize demons-especially the dreaded Asmodeus-with the smoke
of burning fish gall.

14 Ibn Taymeeyab's Essay on the jinn (Demons), op. cit., p. 77.

15 Robert Lebling, Jinn Discussion Group, www.yahoogroups.com, Nov. 6, 2009.

16 Ibid.

18 Ibid., p. 52.

19 Similarly, in Christian lore holy wells and springs were created by saints striking the
ground with their staffs.

17 An Taymeeyah-Essay on the jinn (Demons), op. cit., p. 59.

20 Sahib Muslim, 4:1922.

21 Rosemary Ellen Guiley, The Encyclopedia ofMagic 'Alchemy (New York: Facts On
File, 2007), p. 299.

22 Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an inventor and electrical engineer. He was one of
the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best
known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism.