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Ghoul

Rinonziwo: ghūl, غول, ghulah, si'lat
Ngano nezvitendero zvekareZvimweZvinosiyanaMadhimoni kana mweya yakaipa

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

Ita hondo
Kwakabva
Arabic
Saudi Arabia
Chikonzero chacho
Madhimoni kana mweya yakaipa
In Arabic tradition it is a kind of jinn or demon, not a dead human.
Mafambiro aro
Zvinosiyana
Haunts deserts, ruins and burial grounds and lures travellers off the road.
Njere
Rakangwara
Utera
  • a sword stroke, as in the story of the caliph Umar
  • reciting the call to prayer
zvinyorwa zvemumunda

Zvinotaurwa nezvinyorwa

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

Waigona kuritiza uchimhanya?

Chikamu chekumhanya chinobva pamatsananguriro anoita zvinyorwa (zvinosiyana), kwete chiyero.

Iwe, uchifamba zvinenge 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Iwe, uchimhanya-mhanya zvinenge 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ghoul zvinenge 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Munhu mukuru akasimba achimhanya nesimba rese zvinenge 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mutasvi webhasikoro anomhanya zvinenge 37 km/h (23 mph)

Zvinyorwa

  1. Ghoul - Wikipedia

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