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a desert demon that dines on the dead, then wears their faces to dinner
means A ghoul is a malevolent spirit or monster said to haunt graveyards and feed on corpses — or, by extension, a person with a morbid, unwholesome interest in death and disaster.
from From Arabic ghūl, a demon of the desert and the burial ground, drawn from a root meaning roughly 'to seize' — the thing that snatches travelers and the dead alike. It crept into English in the 18th century through translations of Arabian tales, arriving fully formed with its taste for graves intact.
- origin
- From Arabic ghul, born in pre-Islamic desert folklore
- diet
- Eats corpses, children, and lost travelers
- shapeshifter
- Takes the form of its last meal
- haunt
- Lurks in graveyards and lonely desert roads
- modern grip
- Inspired zombies, Fallout mutants, and D&D monsters
robert berdella — kansas city serial killer who kept victims captive and tortured them in the 1980s, confessing to 6 murders
fritz haarmann — german serial killer who murdered at least 24 young men in hanover during 1919-1924, known as the vampire of hanover