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Ghoul

Era ayitibwa: ghūl, غول, ghulah, si'lat
Enfumo n'emboozi ez'eddaEbiralaKyawukanaBadayimooni oba emyoyo emibi

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

Lwanyisa
Gy'ava
Arabic
Sawudarebya
Ekikireeta
Badayimooni oba emyoyo emibi
In Arabic tradition it is a kind of jinn or demon, not a dead human.
Engeri gy'atambulamu
Kyawukana
Haunts deserts, ruins and burial grounds and lures travellers off the road.
Amagezi
Mugezi
Ebifo ebinafu
  • a sword stroke, as in the story of the caliph Umar
  • reciting the call to prayer
ebiwandiiko by'omu nnimiro

Ensibuko bye zigamba

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

Wandisobodde okumudduka?

Omutendera gw'embiro okusinziira ku ngeri ensibuko gye zimunnyonnyolamu (kyawukana), si kipimo.

Ggwe, ng'otambula nga 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ggwe, ng'odduka mpola nga 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ghoul nga 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Omuntu omukulu omugumu ng'adduka nnyo nga 24 km/h (15 mph)
Omuvuzi wa ggaali ow'embiro nga 37 km/h (23 mph)

Ensibuko

  1. Ghoul - Wikipedia

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