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That is a very good question.

I think Cyrus was always a genie, but he was not always bound to his bottle. In folklore, genies are demons who are imprisoned, to do humans' bidding. They are also notorious for being tricksters.

Then again, Cyrus could have become a genie, as a price for freeing a genie. He seems to believe it is impossible, for Alice to free him.