Hindu texts

So that's where it starts off.

And then there are stories in the Upanishads, the Hindu scriptures about this, maybe where the three-wish motif comes from even before Arabian Nights and the genie in the bottle.

I mentioned the whole Faust legend in that vein.

It's not exactly a genie in the bottle or a one-wish or a three-wish story, but I do think it falls in that genre of someone who gets a sort of magical wish fulfillment, in this case through the devil.

And I began reading the Hebrew Scriptures, the New Testament.

I actually also was reading the Hindu Scriptures, which actually have some very interesting parallels to certain things that you read about in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Not so much in the theology, but a lot in certain descriptions of various types of beings and entities.

And then you have a lot of Jewish literature from the Second Temple era, period, across sects.