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Ghoul
The word comes from the Arabian ghul ('to seize') and used to denote an evil spirit or demon.
The Ghoul of Arab legend is generally depicted as an one-eyed fiend with wings and an animal shape, reputed to haunt graveyards and other sequestered spots, robbing graves and feeding upon corpses. They also kidnap children and devour them.
The term has come to refer to a person who deals with the deceased in any obscene, strange or diabolical way. Grave robbers are also known by this name.
Ghouls of various sorts appear in many fairy tales, ghost stories, folklore and legends.
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Sources: (1) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, Harper Collins Publishers; (2) Dictionary of the Occult, Caxton Publishing; (3) Spence, Lewis, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, Carol Publishing Group; (4) Bonnerjea, Biren, A Dictionary of Superstitions and Mythology, Singing Tree Press.
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