Shiqq

Also called Shiq.

In Arabian folklore, the Shiqq is a half-formed jinn — split vertically down the middle with only one eye, one arm, and one leg — said in some tellings to be the parent of the Nasnas.

Tradition: Arabian folklore
Region: Arabia (place of origin)
Kind: Arabian jinn
Trait family: The False Guides
Kin: Nasnas (derived from this figure)

Kinship

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Nasnas derived from this figure
why
Accounts vary on its origin: some folk and cosmographical sources describe it as a distinct people or race dwelling at the fringes of the human world, while other tellings tie it to jinn ancestry, describing it as the offspring or a degenerate branch of the Shiqq, a similarly half-formed jinn-kind.

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Fachan One-armed one-legged body · Single large eye
Keelut Emerges at night to attack

Traits

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Form

One-armed one-legged body
why
with only one eye, one arm, and one leg
Hops on single leg
why
it is said to move by hopping on its one leg
Single large eye
why
a single eye, a single arm, and a single leg
Made of smokeless fire
why
created from smokeless fire
Half body vertical split
why
The Shiqq is described as literally half a creature: a body split down the vertical midline, leaving it with a single eye, a single arm, and a single leg, and it is said to move by hopping on its one leg.

Behaviour

Emerges at night to attack
why
Despite its truncated form, the Shiqq is reckoned dangerous to travelers, particularly those who journey alone at night through empty country; it is said to attack and kill humans it encounters in such isolated settings.

Roles

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