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Revision as of 23:29, 29 October 2024
Inspiration
Of how I met the ghūl swooping down on the desert bare and flat as a sheet.
I said to her, “We are both worn with exhaustion, brothers of travel, so leave my place to me!
She sprang at me, then my hand raised against her a polished Yemeni blade.
Then undismayed I struck her: she fell flat prostrated on her two hands and on her throatlatch.
She said, “Strike again!” I replied to her, “Calm down, mind your place! For I am indeed stout-hearted.”
I lay upon her [through the night] that in the morning I might see what had come to me.
Behold! Two eyes set in a hideous head, like the head of a split-tongued cat.
Legs like a deformed foetus, the back of a dog, clothes of haircloth or worn-out skins!
-- Poem by Ta’abbata Sharran - Late 6th century or early 7th century CE
Source: https://www.fairytalesandmyths.com/ghoul/ )
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Hidden Master
- Ghul-e Biyaban