Welcome to the Hidden Gin, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron

Manky.

You're here because you believe in more than the eye can see. What you believe in may be different than what someone else believes in.

Some of you might believe in ghosts. Others may believe in angels and yet others believe in fairies and trolls and leprechauns.

But I'm pretty sure all of you believe in something supernatural, intangible, something that exists in the shadows of our everyday human experience.

And just like you, billions of others throughout history and throughout the world have believed with religious fervor in a supernatural being you may never have heard of.

But characters of that creature have still managed to crack through our pop culture and chances are that at some point in your childhood you rubbed a lamp and made a wish, hoping that the blue genie from the film Aladdin would pop out and grant your wildest desires.

You know, the funny, wisecracking genie dressed in a confusing mix of Middle Eastern and South Asian clothing, singing and tap dancing, a pretty endearing creature all around to children and adults alike.

But what you may not know is that there is nothing childish about genies. And the silly grinning innocuous apparition from the Disney adaptations couldn't be further from the truth when it comes to the centuries of tradition, folklore,

and fervent belief in an entire race of powerful and often terrifying beings, the Jin.

That's right, our happy blue friend from Aladdin is a Jin, a Jin from the Arabian tale, 1,000 and 1 nights, and the Jin are nothing to laugh about.

I'm Robbie A. Jothery, and I'll be your guide into the ancient world of the hidden Jin. Welcome.

And the Jin we created a four time from the smokeless fire of a scorching wind.

These words may sound like they come from a modern paranormal young adult novel, but they're actually almost 1500 years old, and they come from the Muslim scripture, chapter 15, verse 27 of the Quran.

We create a four time from the smokeless fire of a scorching wind.

The we here is God himself, explaining the differences of his creation to believers.

Mir mortals says God he created out of a muddy clay, an angel's he fashioned out of pure light.

And then there's this third category of creation, the Jin.

God created them fearsome from the smokeless flame of a scorching wind, the very edge of the flame indeed, the most essential, purest part of it.

Given the description, if you think about it, the Jin are composed of kind of the opposite elements of us humans.

We're mostly water and carbon material like the earth itself, while Jin are created from the air elements of fire and wind.

Like the earth, human beings are tangible, material fixed and limited in our physical manifestations, but Jin, like living gusts of fiery wind, they are ineffable, powerful, and uncontained.

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