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Illustration of Ghoul
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Ifayile No. 423 kwa-446

Ghoul

Ikwabizwa ngokuba: ghūl, غول, ghulah, si'lat
Iintsomi zemveli namabali amanduloOkunyeIyahlukaIidemoni okanye imimoya emdaka

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

Yiphose edabini
Imvelaphi
Arabic
ISaudi Arabia
Oko kuyibangelayo
Iidemoni okanye imimoya emdaka
In Arabic tradition it is a kind of jinn or demon, not a dead human.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyahluka
Haunts deserts, ruins and burial grounds and lures travellers off the road.
Ubukrelekrele
Ikrelekrele
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
  • a sword stroke, as in the story of the caliph Umar
  • reciting the call to prayer
amanqaku ophando

Oko kuthethwa yimithombo

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

Ungayigqitha ngokubaleka?

Udidi lwesantya ngokwendlela imithombo eyichaza ngayo (iyahluka), asingomlinganiselo.

Wena, uhamba malunga ne-5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, ujoga malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ghoul malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Umntu omdala osempilweni ebaleka ngamandla malunga ne-24 km/h (15 mph)
Umkhweli webhayisikile okhawulezayo malunga ne-37 km/h (23 mph)

Imithombo

  1. Ghoul - Wikipedia

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