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Updated: June 19, 2025
As the black rat, at the end of his amazing lightning display, reached the barn, with his mate behind him, he leapt he could not stop clean over the back of one great twenty-inch, glitter-eyed brown ghoul, called by the death-scream of his colleague other rats usually answer it coming out of a hole.
In the second, the eyes were rolled back till you could only see the whites of them; and, in the third, the face was the face of a demon a ghoul anything you please except of the sleek, oily old ruffian who sat in the daytime over his turning-lathe downstairs. He was lying on his stomach with his arms turned and crossed behind him, as if he had been thrown down pinioned.
"Juggins," whispered I, "here is some one else who wants this precious baby of yours for a specimen." 'I felt him jump to his feet, but I clutched at him, and pulled him back. "Keep still, man!" I whispered. "Let us see what the old hag is doing. It is not the brat's mother, is it?" "No," whispered Juggins, "this is an older woman. What a ghoul it is!" 'Then we were silent again.
The worst of it is that such a compilation brings a man money, because there are always plenty of people who like to dabble in mud; and a ghoul is the most impervious of beings, probably because a ghoul of this species regards himself merely as an unprejudiced seeker after truth, and claims to be what he would call a realist.
He got up and, so certain was he that he had not been mistaken, he got into his boat and rowed out and round The Ghoul, for the night was calm, but everything was quiet and peaceful out there.
"Why, I ain't set eyes on him," moaned the widow dismally, "and summat tells me as I never will." "Don't talk rubbish, woman," said Archie tartly, for he did not wish Lucy to be upset again by this ancient ghoul. "Woman indeed, sir. I'd have you know, oh!" the widow jumped and quavered as the lid of the packing case fell on the floor with a bang. "Oh lor, sir, the start you did give me!"
"It is plain that a Scot who can blindly dote On the face of an Eastern ghoul, And a ghoul who was worth not a silver groat, Is a Scot who has lost his soul. "It were wise to have done with this demon tree Which has teemed with such caukered fruit; Add the soil where it stands to my holy See, And consign to the flames its root."
I myself remember that a Norwegian barque bound out with a cargo of pitch-pine had been given up as missing about that time, and it was just the sort of craft that would capsize in a squall and float bottom up for months a kind of maritime ghoul on the prowl to kill ships in the dark.
Without being precisely a vampire, a ghoul, a fictitious man, a sort of Faust or Robin des Bois, he partook of the nature of all these anthropomorphic conceptions, according to those persons who were addicted to the fantastic. Occasionally some German would take for realities these ingenious jests of Parisian evil-speaking. The stranger was simply an old man.
Horses were covered with sheets or white cloth held on by the saddle and by belts, and sometimes the animals were even painted. Skulls of sheep and cattle, and even of human beings were often carried on the saddlebows to add another element of terror. A framework was sometimes made to fit the shoulders of a Ghoul which caused him to appear twelve feet high.
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