ghoul

• “In Somalia and Afghanistan clerics matter-of-factly described to your correspondent the range of jinn they had encountered, from the saintly to the demonic; those that can fly, those that crawl, plodding jinn, invisible jinn, gul with vampiric tendencies (from which the English word ghoul is taken), and shape-shifters recognisable in human form because their feet are turned backwards.”

  Archive 2006-12-01

• “She is also the oldest living ghoul from the 1968 horror classic "Night of the Living Dead.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Elderly Zombies Win the Undying Loyalty of Their Fans

• “Your lives are boring and the fact that you are posting on this site about a Rupert Everett Wanabee ghoul is proof thereof.”

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• “No doubt these miserable villagers, with lives barely worth the few boney fish they hauled daily, were superstitious on top of their misery, thinking the wearied traveler a reaper out for their souls, or a ghoul from the deeps hungry for their flesh.”

  Archive 2009-12-01

• ““Not much of a ghoul, is she?” the Wendigo asked the mare.”

  GHOULS • by Megan Arkenberg

• “For example, the star Algol, which is located in Taurus, is given in many dictionaries as descending from al-ghāla, ` the destroyer, 'but its more likely origin is the more familiar form from the same root: ghul ` a woodland demon' from which we got our word ghoul, ` a defiler of graves. ”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3

• “Combining a slow motor, a simple system of pulleys, and a deathly amount of fun (and almost as much electricity), this ghoul will be the “life” of your Halloween party.”

  Boing Boing

• “The worst of it is that such a compilation brings a man money, because there are always plenty of people who like to dabble in mud; and a ghoul is the most impervious of beings, probably because a ghoul of this species regards himself merely as an unprejudiced seeker after truth, and claims to be what he would call a realist.”

  The Silent Isle

• “I've structured the campaign such that the opponents become increasingly more powerful; a ghoul is a much more appropriate threat to a Gritty or Procedural level game, while Chthonians are great Pulp or Superhero-level villains.”

  RPGnet

• “The ghoul is a product called Zombie of Montclaire Moors, an $89.95 sculpture made of "designer resin" that gives the impression a zombie is clawing his way out of your yard.”

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