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''' For other uses of the term "ghoul", see Ghoul (disambiguation). '''

''' "Amine Discovered with the Goule", from the story of Sidi Nouman, of the Arabian Nights. '''

''' A ghoul is a (folkloric) monster associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh, often classified as undead. The oldest surviving literature that mention ghouls is likely One Thousand and One Nights. [1 ] The term was first used in English literature in 1786, in William Beckford 's <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Orientalist novel <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Vathek, <span style="font-size:7px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[2 ] which describes the ghūl of Arabian folklore. '''

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">''' By extension, the word ghoul is also used in a derogatory sense to refer to a person who delights in the <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">macabre, or whose profession is linked directly to death, such as a <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">gravedigger. ''' {| style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse;"
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center;">  [ <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">hide ] 
 * <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">1 Early etymology
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[ <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">edit ] Early etymology
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">''' Ghoul is from the Arabic الغول ghul, from ghala "to seize". <span style="font-size:7px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[3 ] Marc Cramer and others believe the term to be etymologically related to <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Gallu, a Mesopotamian demon. <span style="font-size:7px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[4 ]<span style="font-size:7px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[5 ]'''

[ <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">edit ] In Arabian folklore
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">''' In <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">ancient Arabian folklore, the ghūl (Arabic: literally demon ) <span style="font-size:7px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[6 ] dwells in burial grounds and other uninhabited places. The ghul is a fiendish type of <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">jinn believed to be sired by <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Iblis. <span style="font-size:7px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[7 ]'''

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">''' A ghul is also a desert-dwelling, shapeshifting, evil demon that can assume the guise of an animal, especially a <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">hyena. It lures unwary people into the desert wastes or abandoned places to slay and devour them. The creature also preys on young children, drinks blood, steals coins, and eats the dead, <span style="font-size:7px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[6 ] then taking the form of the person most recently eaten. '''

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">''' In the Arabic language, the female form is given as ghouleh <span style="font-size:7px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[8 ] and the plural is ghilan. In colloquial Arabic, the term is sometimes used to describe a greedy or gluttonous individual. '''

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">''' These ghouls are not undead nor demons, but are grave-robbing cannibals and are not evil. The evil people in this book are humans who don't understand ghouls., a ghoul is a member of a nocturnal subterranean race. Some ghouls were once human, but a diet of human corpses, and perhaps the tutelage of proper ghouls, mutated them into horrific bestial <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">humanoids. In the <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">short story " <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">Pickman's Model " ( <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">1926 ), they are unutterably terrible monsters; however, in his later <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">novella <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ( <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">1926 ), the ghouls are somewhat less disturbing, even comical at times, and both helpful and loyal to the protagonist. <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">Richard Upton Pickman, a noteworthy <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">Boston painter who disappeared mysteriously in "Pickman's Model", appears as a ghoul himself in Dream-Quest. Similar themes appear in " <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">The Lurking Fear " ( <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">1922 ) and " <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">The Rats in the Walls " ( <span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">1924 ), both of which posit the existence of subterranean clans of degenerate, retrogressive cannibals or carrion-eating humans. '''

==''' [ <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">edit ] Ghouls. is a legendary creature that resembles humans in appearance and behavior, raising farm animals and planting root crops. However, its favorite food is human, resulting in scattered human skeletons on the grounds of its dwelling place. <span style="font-size:8px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[1 ]'''== ==''' The Ghouls. was a <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">ghoul and corpse thief. An evil spirit who looked and behaved like ordinary human beings by day, it listened for sounds of death in the evenings, and dwelled in large trees near cemeteries. It had pointed teeth, hooked nails and a long tongue. It took <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:pre-wrap;">banana tree trunks to replace the dead as it stole the corpses out of their coffins. Then, spiriting the corpse off after first turning it into a pig, the Ghouls. would feast on it and even try to feed it to their human neighbors during the day in order to turn them into ghouls like itself. To ward the Ghouls. off, all corpses should be washed completely with vinegar and strong-smelling herbs. Salt is also a Ghouls. repellent. <span style="font-size:8px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(11,0,128);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[2 ]'''==

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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">''' The star <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Algol takes its name from the definite Arabic term "al-ghūl", "the demon". <span style="font-size:7px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">[9 ]'''

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">''' The <span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Al Ghul family in the Batman mythos have their name taken from the Ghouls.  == [ <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">edit ] See al <span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">so'''==


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 * <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Ghouls.
 * <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Draugr
 * <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Jinn
 * <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Ghouls in popular culture
 * <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Goblin
 * <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Oni
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[ <span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">edit ] References
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Categories (+ + ): 
 * 1) <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;">^ <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">"The Story of Sidi-Nouman" . Retrieved 2012-07-05. 
 * 2) <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;">^ <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">"Ghoul Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Ghoul" . Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2011-03-23. 
 * 3) <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;">^ <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">"Online Etymology Dictionary" . Etymonline.com. Retrieved 2011-03-23. 
 * 4) <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;">^ Cramer, Marc (1979). <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Devil Within . W.H. Allen. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">ISBN <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">978-0-491-02366-5 . 
 * 5) <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;">^ <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">"Cultural Analysis, Volume 8, 2009: The Mythical Ghoul in Arabic Culture / Ahmed Al-Rawi" . Socrates.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2011-03-23. 
 * 6) <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> ^ <span style="font-size:7px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">a <span style="font-size:7px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">b <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">"ghoul" . Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary . Retrieved January 22, 2006. 
 * 7) <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;">^ <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">"ghoul" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved January 22, 2006. 
 * 8) <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;">^ *Muhawi, Ibrahim, and Sharif Kanaana (1988). <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Speak, Bird, Speak Again : Palestinian Arab Folktales . Berkeley: University of California Press. 
 * 9) <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;">^ Jim Kaler (Prof. Emeritus of Astronomy, University of Illinois). <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">"Algol" . STARS . Retrieved February 18, 2006. 

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