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Ghoul

E boetse e bitswa: ghūl, غول, ghulah, si'lat
Ditshomo le dinonwaneTse dingE a fapanaBademona kapa meya e mebe

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

Di lwantshe
Tshimoloho
Arabic
Saudi Arabia
Se e bakang
Bademona kapa meya e mebe
In Arabic tradition it is a kind of jinn or demon, not a dead human.
Kamoo e tsamayang kateng
E a fapana
Haunts deserts, ruins and burial grounds and lures travellers off the road.
Bohlale
Bohlale
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • a sword stroke, as in the story of the caliph Umar
  • reciting the call to prayer
dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

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

Na o ka e phonyoha ka ho matha?

Sehlopha sa lebelo ho ya ka kamoo mehlodi e e hlalosang kateng (e a fapana), eseng tekanyo.

Wena, o tsamaya hoo e ka bang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, o matha butle hoo e ka bang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ghoul hoo e ka bang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Motho e moholo ya matla a mathang ka lebelo le leholo hoo e ka bang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mopalami wa baesekele ya lebelo hoo e ka bang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Mehlodi

  1. Ghoul - Wikipedia

Ntlha e nngwe le e nngwe leqepheng lena e tswa mehloding ena, e ngotswe ka mantswe a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelle ho [email protected].

Fepa letshwele. Ha ho dipapatso, ha ho disebedisi tsa ho latela, e lefellwa ke motho a le mong. Tjhelete ya teboho e e boloka inthaneteng.Fana ka tjhelete ya teboho

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