American Toby Jug Museum 

The Genie character jug modeled by Stanley J. Taylor and produced by Royal Doulton of Burslem, England, in 1991. This Genie, having just been freed from the magical lamp, looks ready to grant your fondest wish. Genie is the anglicized word for the Arabic jinni. To the ancient Semites they were spirits of vanished ancient peoples who acted during the night and disappeared with the first light of dawn. The Arabs believed that the jinni were spirits of fire, although sometimes they associated them with succubae, demons in the forms of beautiful women, who visited men by night to copulate with them until they were exhausted, drawing energy from them similarly to how vampires suck blood. In Islam, the jinni are creatures with free will, made of smokeless fire by Allah, much in the same way humans were made of earth. In Islam-associated mythology, the jinni were said to be controllable by magically binding them to objects, as Solomon famously did; the Spirit of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin was such a jinni, bound to an oil lamp. A lamp, flame and the genie's hair form the handle of this jug.