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How did the Jinn have a bad rep in the past but now they are "Genies" who pretty much have a great rep? What happened in between? (lemmy.world)
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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

In the same vein, Greek daemons represent unpredictable supernatural beings of the same type as gods though with much less power.

The idea of unpredictable supernatural beings is one of those things independently created by unconnected cultures to either explain natural oddities or to serve the plot of some kind of aesop.