Ghūl

A Ghūl (Ahmedian: غول‎) is an undead humanoid associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh. Across all cultures around the world there have been various names given to these creatures. According to Ahmedian scholar, Abdul Haleem el-Dallal, the ghul is said to dwell in cemeteries and other uninhabited places.

Some state that the ghoul is actually crypt-dwelling and shapeshifting demonic spirit that can posses the corpses of the dead and uses the body to hunt unwary people to slay and devour them, although this is not entirely confirmed. It is known that Ghūls prey on young children, drink blood, and eat the dead. In one of the many myths from Ahmedia there are stories of a powerful Ghūl sorcerer named Ghūl-e Biyaban, a particularly monstrous being believed to raise the dead using vile magic.