Is the Maride a Genie?

i think we've sort of taken that apart a little bit. Is all that just from kind of like whitewashed, like, re tellings of, you know, folk stories and made to be more palatable for a wider audience? i can see the religious syncratism occurring there as well. And it's also important for us to note that modern belief in jin is not necessarily unique in this way. There are other persistent beliefs in things that people would call supernatural rather than factual.