Arabic name (غُول) means - "ogre, ghoul, alcohol, goblin, bogey, hobgoblin".
Ghoul is a cannibalistic monster that feeds on human corpses and living human flesh, abducts young children to eat, lures unwary people into abandoned places, often classified as undead. The creatures usually dwells in graveyards and cemeteries. The oldest surviving literature that mention ghouls is likely One Thousand and One Nights. The term was first attested to in English in 1786, in William Beckford's Orientalist novel Vathek, which describes the ghūl of Arabian folklore.
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