Re: Your favourite urban legend?
Jinns: A living being, created by Allah (God). They live the parallel world to humans. Humans are visible to them all the time, they are not visible to humans.
Goblins (bonay): The living beings, they are naughty & usually create some kind of trouble for humans.
Pari (Fairy) : Imaginory creature. No existence found
Mu'akkal: Dead souls (usually weak souls), can be controlled once the person dies. Most the people who do "Jadoo / Toona" have some kind of Mu'akkal. There are three basic kinds, depending upon how one has been controlled. The more control one has over a Mu'akkal the more things it can do for you. (This is against the Islamic teachings). Once the person dies who controls Mu'akkals can be serious trouble as he looses all the controls over the Mu'akkal with his death.
Ghosts/Churails : The disturbed souls. No one has control over them but they appear from time to time trying to finish the un-finished business. Some of them are harmless some are harmful, depening upon how the lived the life & what is their un-finished business.
Give you two examples (one is personal).
1) In 1934 a Pathan visited a doctor in Delhi with a rotten hand for help. Doctor realized that the wound has gone bad and Pathan needed the amputation. Pathan heavy heartily agreed for it but asked the doctor to keep the hand in safe place because once human dies he must be burried with all his body parts so he would like to have his hand back when he dies. Doctors said "OK" and kept the hand in the surgical jar. In 1944 his clinic was burnt so was the Pathan's hand. Eighteen years later in 1962, when doctor was sitting in his clinic at night he saw that Pathan walking in his clinic in the lab area checking each surgical jar. Doctor called that Pathan but was ignored. That ghost appeared every evening & checked the jars but each evening left sadly not finding his hand.
Doctor went to a guy asking for a solution. Doctor was told to get a hand from a deceased and place it in a surgical jar a clinic & see what happens. He did that & saw that Pathan appearing checing jars, finding hand & getting happy. Strangefully Pathan took that hand & doctor never found that hand again. Pathan's ghost never re-appreaed.
2) This the personal one, I saw that woman (ghost myself).
My aunty (pupho) bought some land few years ago & constructed a house. The construction style is orthodox with a courtyard in the middle & rooms around it. There is a corner room from the right side of entrance. No one initially had occupancy of that room & they used it as a store room with all boxes etc. Later my counsin started using that room and he partially occupied the room (he wasn't sleeping it). After few days he realized that half of his stuff goes missing and then re-appears. He blamed himself for it but one evening when he was alone at home. He saw a young girl in that corner room walking. He thought it was his sister so he called her but she vanished. He immediately told the family & they starting probing the matter. What they found out was an interesting story.
Few hundered years ago there was a temple "Mander" few (hundred or couple of hundreds) yards from the place where the house was built. The woman was raped & murdered (or sacrified in the name of some hindu peer). Later on the goblins took that place as their residence too. So basically they found that they had goblins as well as a female ghost living in that corner room. Goblins were seen by my uncle & aunty too but no one else.
Almost half of the family has seen that female ghost in that room. The woman was really pretty with long (knee length) hair. When I saw her, she was wearing red sari like dress.
Anyway matter was forwarded to someone who came in the house & stayed a night in that room. Nothing strange was observed after that. But once the house in the back was built, the same thing started happening to the adjecent house so the eventually ended up with my pupho for the solution. That ghost & goblins are now gone from the place.
My advice is that if u see anything un-usual and that is not disturbing your life on regular basis, stay away from it. Taking a panga with super-naturals or a human that controls them is putting your life at risk.
Keep in mind that Jinns can annoy really bad if they are disturbed. Their males do fall in love with pretty human females & vice versa. They have the same religions like us. There are Muslim, hindu, sikh & christian Jinns. Some of the muslim Jinns are even Hafiz-e-Quran.
There is a mosque in the inner city of Lahore (In shah-almi area if I am not wrong). If you make a mistake while reciting Quran u will hear a voice correcting you. Its a Hafiz-e-Quran Jinn living in that mosque since its built.