Mark Zuckerberg is a ghoulAuthor: Iris Meredith
Published: 2025-01-20
The ghoul in Arabic folklore is a spirit or demon heavily associated with graveyards, death and the consumption of human flesh. Ghouls lure unwary people into the desert or into abandoned places, killing and eating them and taking the form of the person they've most recently eaten. They prey on children and the vulnerable, take the shape of attractive women or loved ones to lure in unsuspecting victims and drink blood. While their depiction in popular culture is more varied, the motif of eating flesh, trickery, forbidden hunger and desecration is consistent through almost all of them. Ghouls are, in short, the monsters that trick you, that lie to you and that then kill you and eat your corpse.
Does that sound familiar, Mark?