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Ghul

Ghul is an Arabic term for a terrifying entity or being which drives a person insane. It also describes monsters and evil spirits which haunt forests, cemeteries and isolated places. They terrorize and kill the living, also dig up and eat bodies of the dead. Their counterparts are ghouls. A.G.H

Source:

Drury, Nevil. The Watkins Dictionary of Magic. London. Watkins Publishing. 2005. p. 114