Gul

Werewolf of Arabic, Persian and Turkic mythology. Usually depicted as a creature with a hideous appearance and donkey hooves, which do not disappear under any transformations.

In pre-Islamic folklore, ghouls, werewolves, living in the desert, along the roads, preying on travelers who kill and then devour. Also steal children, drink blood, steal coins, Rob graves and eat the corpses. Constantly change shape, transform into animals, especially hyenas, and young attractive women. In Islam, the huli are one of the subspecies of Jinn and the offspring of Iblis.

Known in the West from the eighteenth century , particularly in English literature, where most are described as carrion eaters and grave robbers, living in cemeteries and near the burial mounds. The Europeans Gul is depicted as a corpse, completely lost their human face and living in empty tombs.

In some of the bestiaries mention more powerful creatures — algosh: they differ in force, attacking carts and stray units.

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