afreet

And the Moor's face was white, and his features trembled, as though he had seen an Afreet, but my face was as a deep well.

Af'rit or Afreet, a kind of Medusa or Lamia, the most terrible and cruel of all the orders of the deevs.

Look upon him as an Afreet to be exorcised with a cross of red-hot iron.

It seemed as if it might be a pillar of confinement and punishment for some Afreet who had defied Heaven.