A ghoul is a type of jinn that eats corpses, murders young children, lures unwary people into abandoned places, often classified as undead. These creatures are thought to dwell in burial grounds. The oldest surviving literature that mention ghouls is likely One Thousand and One Nights^[1]. The term was first attested to in English in 1786, in William Beckford‘s Orientalist novel Vathek,^[2] which describes the ghūl of Arabian folklore.

By extension, the word ghoul is also used derogatorily to refer to a person who delights in the macabre, or whose profession is linked directly to death, such as a gravedigger.

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