Here's a brief writeup on djinn based on my experience binding a djinn to my glasses. I'm due for a djinn transfer ritual soon because I need to renew my prescription and get new lenses/frames. The djinn transfer ritual essentially consists of tying the two objects together by a string and telling the djinn to move into the new container. I'll probably burn a white and black candle when I do it because that's what I did when I originally bound the djinn.
The original djinn binding ritual consists showering with unscented soap, plucking a hair from your head, lighting black, white and red candles, putting an object (in this case, my glasses) into a bowl, burning the hair in the red candle, then extinguishing the candles and taking the object out. While the candles were lit, I spoke aloud an appeal to any djinn nearby who wanted to work with me, asking them to enter the object. The hair is said to be an offering of life force, and a small amount to us is a large amount to a djinn because they don't have bodies. My wife makes unscented soap so I was in luck there, part of why I did it in the first place, I had everything I needed to do it already.
So what is a djinn anyway?
It's the arabic word for a nature spirit from the time before Islam. It's the same entity as the spirits that First Nations people work with, it's the same entity as the nature spirits of European folklore. It's just a regional term.
I didn't have any specific goal with this djinn, I just wanted to get to know nature spirits better so I looked for one willing to work with me indefinitely. My weather magick has definitely been on point lately, though it's worth saying I never have been selfish with it. I got a new-to-me car this year, and my chihuahua is 90% trained out of barking at the neighbors (and it's a chihuahua, so that 90% is enough to get noticed by the neighbors). In short, everything's going my way.
It's worth saying I broke one of the cardinal bound djinni rules. You're not supposed to take the object with you into the bathroom. I put my djinni in my prescription glasses I wear the entire time I'm awake. Djinni has never complained about it, but it also feels worth saying that I told the djinn my plans for this object before I bound it, so presumably there was a host of djinni considering entering the object and the one that was the most suited for me entered my glasses. I've heard of people experiencing conflict with their djinnis after
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