They might grant you a wish if you let them go. (At least a couple of genies have been done in by a rock to the head). However, they can be killed by mundane means, if the Arabian Nights is any indication. They are also extremely long-lived and highly skilled in magic. They are said to be made of "smokeless fire", perhaps something along the lines of energy beings. They are (usually) invisible beings that are actually more like humans than we realize - they are born, grow up, marry, have children and eventually die. In Middle Eastern folklore and Islam, genies ( jinn, Arabic for "hidden") were created out of the Four Elements by God before he created the First Man out of all of the elements.
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