October 2013

Ghouls Ghosts and Goblins

Webfooters Post Card Club

PO Box 17240

Portland OR 97217-0240

www.thewebfooters.com

In this issue

Ghouls Ghosts and Goblins – see page 4.

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Ghouls Ghosts and Goblins

Come Halloween, miniature ghosts, ghouls, and goblins ring your doorbell. But each of the

three freaky frights has a different history and personality. Only one of them has alarming

tendencies towards consuming corpses or carrion.

One of the only features these staples of the supernatural share is their ghastliness. Ghosts

are considered to be the souls of the dead. They are imagined as disembodied spirits,

and are often visualized as vague or evanescent forms; hence, the white sheet routine. The

Old English gast means “soul, spirit, life, breath.”

A red blood cell having no hemoglobin is also called a ghost. And the word “dord,” one of

the strangest in the whole dictionary, is known as a “ghost word.”

The origins behind the word ”ghoul” are far more hostile and may have inspired a horror

film or two. In Arabic legend, a ghoul is a creature that eats both stolen corpses and

children. The word comes from the Arabic ghul, which comes from ghala, meaning “he

seized.” Ghouls are often depicted as possessing blood-red eyes and teeth like the curved

blades of Arab knives, the kind designed for rending flesh. They spread disease wherever

they went and were typically described as faceless. Most ghouls lived underground in holes

in the earth.

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Postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons “Hallowe’en” Post Cards Series No. 150.

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Like ghouls, goblins are malicious, though perhaps not as nightmarish as the flesh eating

ghouls. A goblin is “a grotesque sprite or elf. Goblins can be mischievous. They can also

assume human and animal form and assail people.”

Postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons “Hallowe’en” Post Cards Series No. 150.

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Goblin comes from the German kobold. In German folklore, a kobold was a mischievous

household spirit. Sometimes the kobold is helpful and sings to children. But too often, he

hides valuable household items, kicks people, and erupts in rage when he doesn’t get

enough food.

That Jack O’ Lantern on a friendly

neighbor’s porch may not seem as scary

as a ghoul, but the story of who the

“Jack” in “Jack O’ Lantern” is named

after may give you the chills.

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