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Djinn/Jinn

Origin: Arabian Mythology  Habitat: Inanimate Object (Lamp) Behavior: Aggressive Description:  A race of supernaturally empowered beings with shapeshifting abilities. They are often portrayed as having a demonic-like appearance, but they can also appear in beautiful, seductive forms.  Facts:  Djinn have the ability to intervene in the affairs of people . Djinn are self-propagating and can be either good or evil. They can be conjured in magical rites to perform various tasks and services. A djinni (singular) appears as a wish-granting “genie” in folk tales such as in The Book of 1001 Nights collection of folk tales.  The djinn are masterful shape-shifters, and their favored forms are snakes and black dogs . They also can masquerade as anything: humans, animals, ghosts, cryptids, and other entities such as extraterrestrials, demons, shadow people, fairies, angels and more.  They exist in their own realm, possibly a parallel dimension, ...

Nasnas

Origin: Arabic Mythology Habitat: Desert Behavior: Aggressive Description: Half a human being; having half a head, half a body, one arm, one leg, with which it hops with much agility Facts: It's believed it can kill a person by just touching them and the person would be fleshless in mere seconds.