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Stupid Questions! Help!; General Questions about Demons
Topic Started: Jun 9 2006, 03:30 PM (5,144 Views)
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I searched the books using amazon.com and can't find that bit, but I'm positive something Barti-related described marids as water spirits. Argh. The books do describe djinni as fire and air spirits and afrits as fire spirits, but I can't find a similar description for marids..
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Dec 15 2008, 01:07 AM
I searched the books using amazon.com and can't find that bit, but I'm positive something Barti-related described marids as water spirits. Argh. The books do describe djinni as fire and air spirits and afrits as fire spirits, but I can't find a similar description for marids..
Didn't he mention it in GE, I think around Honorius's dive into the water? Or was it just about afrits being of fire?

Then I'm sure Mrs. Underwood described a marid...
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Dec 15 2008, 01:09 AM
Then I'm sure Mrs. Underwood described a marid...
That was afrits she described wasn't it?
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Dec 15 2008, 01:10 AM
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Dec 15 2008, 01:09 AM
Then I'm sure Mrs. Underwood described a marid...
That was afrits she described wasn't it?
I know that, but wasn't also marids?
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I'll go get my copy and see

Edit: Mrs Underwood says Afrits are demons of fire...doesn't mention marids though...sorry
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keep looking, you may have heard that marids are water spirits on some other site or interview or something; but i maintain that it never describes marids as water spirits in the trilogy.
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Like everything else in The Bartimaeus Universe, Stroud did his homework.
Marids, like Afrits ('ifrits'), Djinn (Say 'Genie' and 'Djinni') and Imps are primarily based on Arabian folklore and myth.
Mentioned in the Quran, Marids are spirits of water, and are described as arrogant and exceptionally powerful.
This information is never present within the Trilogy, so far as I can tell. It is also missing from Stroud's site.
I will read through the books again, but I think I'm actually to blame for this.
I have a habit of stating opinion or facts of questionable provability as true fact.
Knowing what I knew, I probably said at some time or another here that Marid's were that of water, and off it went.
Sorry.
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Edited by Dansariki, Dec 15 2008, 03:51 AM.
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Thought that might have been the case. Maybe you should ask Jonathan Stroud?
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Question asked.
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what, just now or already been asked?
When I set out from the boy's attic window, my head was so full of competing plans and complex strategems that I didn't look where I was going and flew straight into a chimney.

Something symbolic in that. It's what fake freedom does for you.
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Just now.
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about how often does JS read and answer questions?
When I set out from the boy's attic window, my head was so full of competing plans and complex strategems that I didn't look where I was going and flew straight into a chimney.

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so . . . irregularly
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