Jinn story mom told us during Isabel power outage

underthedome · September 19, 2003, 5:04pm

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Well, regarding jinn they say that if you appear afraid of them, they will try to kill you. However, if you remain steadfast and strong like my great-grandmother did during her encounter with the jinn, they won't bother you again. My mom said that even after that incident, my great-grandmother continued taking the same secluded route to and from the village and apparently the jinn never disturbed her again. I wish I was as fearless of these unknown entities.
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My understanding is that there are good jinn and bad jinn just like humans. I think it's insulting to say "jinns will kill you if you appear afraid of them." Such stereotyping sickens me.

sweetpie · September 19, 2003, 5:06pm

^ Then go ahead and be sickened.

:)

underthedome · September 19, 2003, 5:09pm

:yukh:
sweetpie

Ahad_Khan · September 19, 2003, 5:22pm

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Why don't you go ahead and share these incidents. My great-grandmother's story is spooky for sure.

:)
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I dont know they probably wont sound so scary when I tell them.

CocoNut · September 19, 2003, 5:32pm

…sounds like old macdonald meets punjab village to me

wusses

Baba_G · September 19, 2003, 6:03pm

i don’t know how y’all are keeping a straight face.. i couldn’t get past “monkey rolling around and doing flip flops in her path”

Thap · September 19, 2003, 6:06pm

tsk tsk baba, that was the spooky interlude to the climax!! You ruined it for everyone now.

funguy · September 19, 2003, 6:07pm

Baba G, The monkeys did disappear afterwards. tsk tsk

Thap · September 19, 2003, 6:09pm

FG,

you just repeating that made my spine shiver.

Spock · September 20, 2003, 1:09pm

sweetie, i heard that from my mom too! same exact one, but no monkeys

Kareem · September 20, 2003, 1:39pm

system · September 20, 2003, 7:53pm

I remember a story my Dad used to tell us, when we were little, it was to make us see, there isn't that much to be afraid of. Things arent'always what they seem.

His story (don't remember all details):

In the beginning of his teen years, my Dad used to go to a neighbouring village or town, I don't know, with some friends. Often they would return home late in dark. And their road was mostly through forests.
One day, while going home, they saw something on the road ahead of them. They coudn't clearly see what it was, but it looked like some ghost or something. They were all frightened, until they decided to just go ahead and see what it was. Because they coudln't stand all night outside. So when they reached it, ti turned out to be a fallen tree. Nothing to be scared about at all after all....

Khanzada · September 20, 2003, 9:58pm

RB: good stuff.

sweetpie: that’s a scary story :halo: i wish i had some to share of my own too

sweetpie · September 21, 2003, 2:20am

Khanzada, I'm sure you have jinn or ghost stories that perhaps someone has told you at some point. If you recall any, please do share.

:)

MehRos · September 21, 2003, 8:25am

Re: Jinn story mom told us during Isabel power outage

*Originally posted by sweetpie: *
Last night at about 9:30 or so, our neighborhood had a power outage due to the aweful storm passing through as a result of Hurricane Isabel. The men in my family (dad and bro) went to bed at about 10 while my sisters, mom, and I stayed up with lit candles in the family room. Mom prepared herself a cup of tea and settled in to tell us a really spooky true jinn story that her grandmother had told her when she was alive (God rest her soul).

The story goes like this…

Back in the day when cars and motorcyles were uncommon, her grandmother (nani ammi, by the name of Gohar) used to occassionally walk miles between her family village and the small city where she settled after marriage (my parents’ hometown). She would walk to Chakwal for the day to shop and would walk back in the evening and sometimes at night.

One particular time as she was walking following the same usual secluded path back to the village from a long and tiring day, she heard her name being called slowly and almost in a whisper (Goharrrrr Goharrrrr) but repeatedly as if from a distance. She continued walking and soon found a monkey rolling around and doing flip flops in her path. The monkey soon vanished as quickly as it appeared. After a few more yards of walking and reciting the kalma, she found a herd of sheep blocking her path but as she continued to read the kalma, these sheep quickly disappeared also. When she got close to reaching the village, a voice from behind said to her something to the effect “It’s a good thing you didn’t turn around.”

Spooky, right?

as a kid i loved scary stories, well i still do

Haris · September 21, 2003, 12:56pm

another cool thread sweet!:k:

i’ve herad a lot of stories almost half of which are 1st or 2nd person narratives. the one that i believe the most to be true is about my dad’s maternal grandfather. he was a religious scholar and ran a school many years ago in some small town in India before Pakistan was created. In the area that he lived in, there was this ancient and abandoned mosque which a few village/town people decided to repair and reactivate. these ppl used to work there night and day and my great grand dad used to stay there till late at night. now the distances used to be pretty wide in those days, especially for people on foot, so one night as he was returning from the mosque all alone and tired, suddenly a bearded and nice old man appeared near him and asked him addressing him by his name “Saeed Ahmed” (may he be blessed), where he was going and if he was tired? My great grandad told him he was going home and that he was quite tired. after this, as ive heard from my father, when he opened his eyes right after the next blink he was standing in the frontyard of his home, which was still miles away from where the old man had met him!

ch_and-be_ii · September 21, 2003, 1:08pm

I have heard the same exact thing from my grandma. And yeah, the monkey did the flip flops in her story too( :-p ) This story is anything but scary. The first time she narrated the thing to me and my cousins, I was scared, but that was long ago. Now the story makes me laugh.