Ainsel

In the folklore of Rothly, Northumberland, England Ainsel ("own self"), an individual jinni, appeared as a playful, female child. According to legend, one winter night a mother tried to send her son to bed but he was not sleepy and refused to go. The mother warned should he stay up the jinn would take him away but laughing at his mother, the son ignored the warning. Not long after she left the room, a beautiful, doll-size jinni came down the chimney and introduced itself to the child as Ainsel. The two played nicely together until the fire began to die; when the child poked at the logs a single hot ember struck the jinni causing it to scream out in magnificent pain. The mother came dashing into the room asking her son "Who hurt you?" to which he replied "It was my Ainsel!" The mother, assuming her son had confessed to hurting himself, spanked and chided him for making so much noise when there was no one to blame but himself.