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When did ghouls become undead?
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<blockquote data-quote="Spell" data-source="post: 3966528" data-attributes="member: 19718"><p>you are right. in lovercraft ghouls are not undead. that caused quite a... ehm... "phylosophical" discussion at my CoC table, the first time we tried the game (many, MANY years ago).</p><p></p><p>i think the original folklore in which ghouls are based is arabic... you might want to dig something about those legends in your local library.</p><p></p><p>a quick look at the wikipedia, brought me to this:</p><p>"Although many screenplays have featured ghouls, the first major motion picture of this theme was the 1933 British film entitled The Ghoul. The actor Boris Karloff plays a dying Egyptologist who possesses an occult gem, known as The Eternal Light, which he believes will grant immortality if he is buried with it, and thereby able to present it to Anubis in the afterlife. Of course, his bickering covetous heirs and associates would rather keep the jewel for themselves. Karloff vows to rise from his grave and avenge himself against anyone who meddles with his plan, and he keeps this promise when one of his colleagues steals The Eternal Light after his death."</p><p></p><p>many monsters appearing in the original D&D and AD&D game mixed folklore and low brow sources such as B movies... so this might very well be the source of change in ghouls physiology. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spell, post: 3966528, member: 19718"] you are right. in lovercraft ghouls are not undead. that caused quite a... ehm... "phylosophical" discussion at my CoC table, the first time we tried the game (many, MANY years ago). i think the original folklore in which ghouls are based is arabic... you might want to dig something about those legends in your local library. a quick look at the wikipedia, brought me to this: "Although many screenplays have featured ghouls, the first major motion picture of this theme was the 1933 British film entitled The Ghoul. The actor Boris Karloff plays a dying Egyptologist who possesses an occult gem, known as The Eternal Light, which he believes will grant immortality if he is buried with it, and thereby able to present it to Anubis in the afterlife. Of course, his bickering covetous heirs and associates would rather keep the jewel for themselves. Karloff vows to rise from his grave and avenge himself against anyone who meddles with his plan, and he keeps this promise when one of his colleagues steals The Eternal Light after his death." many monsters appearing in the original D&D and AD&D game mixed folklore and low brow sources such as B movies... so this might very well be the source of change in ghouls physiology. :) [/QUOTE]
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