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Ghoul

Wɔfrɛ no bio: ghūl, غول, ghulah, si'lat
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmƐfoforɔƐsesaAbonsam anaa ahonhom bɔne

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

Fa ko
Mfiase
Arabic
Saudi Arabia
Deɛ ɛde ba
Abonsam anaa ahonhom bɔne
In Arabic tradition it is a kind of jinn or demon, not a dead human.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛsesa
Haunts deserts, ruins and burial grounds and lures travellers off the road.
Nyansa
Nyansafoɔ
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • a sword stroke, as in the story of the caliph Umar
  • reciting the call to prayer
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

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

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

Ahoɔhare kuo a efi sɛnea fibea kyerɛkyerɛ mu (ɛsesa), ɛnyɛ susudua.

Wo, nantew bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wo, mmirika brɛoo bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ghoul bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ɔpanin a ne ho yɛ den a ɔtu mmirika denden bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Sakrekafoɔ a ɔyɛ ntɛm bɛyɛ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fibea

  1. Ghoul - Wikipedia

Asɛm biara a ɛwɔ krataafa yi so fi saa fibea yi mu, na yɛde yɛn ankasa nsɛm na akyerɛw. Wohunuu mfomsoɔ bi? Ka kyerɛ yɛn wɔ [email protected].

Ma dɔm no aduane. Dawurubɔ nni hɔ, trackers nni hɔ, onipa baako na ɔtua ho ka. Akyɛdeɛ ma ɛkɔ so wɔ intanɛt so.Ma akyɛdeɛ

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Ma dɔm no aduaneMa akyɛdeɛ