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Ghoul

Ook bekend as: ghūl, غول, ghulah, si'lat
Volksverhale en mitesAnderWisselDemone of bose geeste

The ghoul is a desert demon of Arabian folklore that became, in European hands, an eater of corpses. It is not itself undead, but its association with graveyards and human flesh made 'ghoul' the natural English word for anything that feeds on the dead. English writers from Beckford to Lovecraft developed it into a grave-robbing creature that lives on dead human flesh. It is included here as a neighbour of the zombie rather than a member of the family.1

Veg daarteen
Oorsprong
Arabic
Saoedi-Arabië
Wat dit veroorsaak
Demone of bose geeste
In Arabic tradition it is a kind of jinn or demon, not a dead human.
Hoe dit beweeg
Wissel
Haunts deserts, ruins and burial grounds and lures travellers off the road.
Intelligensie
Slim
Swak plekke
  • a sword stroke, as in the story of the caliph Umar
  • reciting the call to prayer
veldnotas

Wat die bronne sê

1

The name comes from an Arabic root meaning 'to seize'1

2

It robs graves and eats the dead, and can take the form of the person it has most recently eaten1

3

Usually appears as a woman to draw male travellers away1

4

The cemetery-dwelling corpse-eater familiar in the West was fixed by Antoine Galland's French translation of the Thousand and One Nights1

5

Not mentioned in the Quran, though it appears in hadith; the rationalist Mu'tazilites denied it existed1

Sou jy hom kon uithardloop?

Spoedklas volgens hoe die bronne dit beskryf (wissel), nie 'n meting nie.

Jy, stap omtrent 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Jy, draf omtrent 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ghoul omtrent 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
'n Fikse volwassene wat naelloop omtrent 24 km/h (15 mph)
'n Vinnige fietsryer omtrent 37 km/h (23 mph)

Bronne

  1. Ghoul - Wikipedia

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