Scroll with a Picture of a Ghoul

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A horrible, low, and nasty beast, this abomination nests in

cemeteries, old burial mounds (kurgans), necropolises, and on

battlefields. Disgusting in form and character, it emerges to feed

usually during the full moon, and well-rotted corpses are a delicacy

for it. When driven by hunger, the ghoul will not hesitate to prey on

the living. Only by fire, silver, and bright light can they be harmed.

For this reason, it hunts only at night.

Ghouls creep and crawl at night

Eating everything in sight

In a snap they’d eat you, too’

Chop you up for a ghoulish stew!

— Children’s rhyme

Ghouls and graveirs are hard to describe. In part, they resemble

humans – yet on the whole, they are the utter negation of all that is

human. Though they have arms and legs like men, they walk on all

fours like dogs or badgers. Though they have eerily familiar faces,

one searches them in vain for any sign of sentiment, reason or even

a spark of consciousness. They are driven by one thing and one

thing only: an insatiable craving for human flesh.