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Márid

A márid (arabul: مارد‎ mārid) egy nagy és hatalmas mágikus erővel rendelkező dzsinn. A máridokat megemlítik az iszlám előtti arab mitológiában és szerepel az Ezeregyéjszaka meséiben is (A halász és a dzsinn, Ali Baba és a negyven rabló). A dzsinnek közül a legnagyobb hatalommal bír. A szó arab nyelven óriást is jelent.

Ifrít

A második leghatalmasabb dzsinn az arab mitológiában: bővebben...

Karín

A karín (arabul: قرين‎ qarīn) olyan dzsinn, aki egy emberhez van rendelve (mint egy őrangyal) és gonosz tettekre vagy Allah megtagadására sarkallja az embert. A Koránban is található utalás a karínokra (Az-Zukhruf című szúra 43:36-39).

Gúl

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Gúl

demonic being believed to inhabit burial grounds and other deserted places. In ancient Arabic folklore, ghūls belonged to a diabolic class of jinn (spirits) and were said to be the offspring of Iblīs, the Muslim prince of darkness. They were capable of constantly changing form, but their presence was always recognizable by their unalterable sign: ass’s hooves.

Considered female by the ancients, the ghūl was often confused with the sílā, also female; the sílā,however, was a witchlike species of jinn, immutable in shape. A ghūl stalked the desert, often in the guise of an attractive woman, trying to distract travelers, and, when successful, killed and ate them. The sole defense that one had against a ghūl was to strike it dead in one blow; a second blow would only bring it back to life again.

The ghūl, as a vivid figure in the Bedouin imagination, appeared in pre-Islāmic Arabic poetry, notably that of Taʿabbata Sharran. In North Africa, it was easily assimilated into an ancient Berber folklore already rich in demons and fantastic creatures. Modern Arabs use ghūl to designate a human or demonic cannibal and frequently employ the word to frighten disobedient children.

Anglicized as “ghoul,” the word entered English tradition and was further identified as a grave-robbing creature that feeds on dead bodies and on children. In the West ghouls have no specific image and have been described (by Edgar Allan Poe) as “neither man nor woman . . . neither brute nor human.” They are thought to assume disguises, to ride on dogs and hares, and to set fires at night to lure travelers away from the main roads.

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[[Image:Amine Discovered with the Goule.jpg|right|thumb|"Amine Discovered with the Goule", from the story of Sidi Nouman, of the ''[[Arabian Nights]]''.]]

A ghoul is a folkloric monster or spirit associated with graveyards and consuming human flesh, often classified as undead. The oldest surviving literature that mention ghouls is likely One Thousand and One Nights. ( {{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lang1k1/tale31.htm|title=The Story of Sidi-Nouman|accessdate=2012-07-05}} )

The term is etymologically related to Gallu, a Mesopotamian demon.^[4][5]

<ref>{{cite book|author=Cramer, Marc|url=http://books.google.com/?id=fdB-AAAAMAAJ&q=ghoul+galla+sumerian&dq=ghoul+galla+sumerian|title= The Devil Within|publisher=W.H. Allen|year=1979|isbn=978-0-491-02366-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/volume8/vol8_article3.html |title=Cultural Analysis, Volume 8, 2009: The Mythical Ghoul in Arabic Culture / Ahmed Al-Rawi |publisher=Socrates.berkeley.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-03-23}}</ref>

dwells in burial grounds and other uninhabited places. The ghul is a fiendish type of jinnbelieved to be sired by Iblis.^[7]

A ghul is also a desert-dwelling, shapeshifting, evil demon that can assume the guise of an animal, especially a hyena. It lures unwary people into the desert wastes or abandoned places to slay and devour them. The creature also preys on young children, drinks blood, steals coins, and eats the dead,^[6] then taking the form of the person most recently eaten.

In the Arabic language, the female form is given as ghouleh^[8] and the plural is ghilan. In colloquial Arabic, the term is sometimes used to describe a greedy or gluttonous individual.