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October 2013
Ghouls Ghosts and Goblins
Webfooters Post Card Club
PO Box 17240
Portland OR 97217-0240
www.thewebfooters.com
In this issue
Ghouls Ghosts and Goblins – see page 4.
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Ghouls Ghosts and Goblins
Come Halloween, miniature ghosts, ghouls, and goblins ring your doorbell. But each of the
three freaky frights has a different history and personality. Only one of them has alarming
tendencies towards consuming corpses or carrion.
One of the only features these staples of the supernatural share is their ghastliness. Ghosts
are considered to be the souls of the dead. They are imagined as disembodied spirits,
and are often visualized as vague or evanescent forms; hence, the white sheet routine. The
Old English gast means “soul, spirit, life, breath.”
A red blood cell having no hemoglobin is also called a ghost. And the word “dord,” one of
the strangest in the whole dictionary, is known as a “ghost word.”
The origins behind the word ”ghoul” are far more hostile and may have inspired a horror
film or two. In Arabic legend, a ghoul is a creature that eats both stolen corpses and
children. The word comes from the Arabic ghul, which comes from ghala, meaning “he
seized.” Ghouls are often depicted as possessing blood-red eyes and teeth like the curved
blades of Arab knives, the kind designed for rending flesh. They spread disease wherever
they went and were typically described as faceless. Most ghouls lived underground in holes
in the earth.
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Postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons “Hallowe’en” Post Cards Series No. 150.
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Like ghouls, goblins are malicious, though perhaps not as nightmarish as the flesh eating
ghouls. A goblin is “a grotesque sprite or elf. Goblins can be mischievous. They can also
assume human and animal form and assail people.”
Postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons “Hallowe’en” Post Cards Series No. 150.
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Goblin comes from the German kobold. In German folklore, a kobold was a mischievous
household spirit. Sometimes the kobold is helpful and sings to children. But too often, he
hides valuable household items, kicks people, and erupts in rage when he doesn’t get
enough food.
That Jack O’ Lantern on a friendly
neighbor’s porch may not seem as scary
as a ghoul, but the story of who the
“Jack” in “Jack O’ Lantern” is named
after may give you the chills.
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From I-5: take exit 256, the Market Street Exit Go west and turn right onto 17th Street
Go about a mile and watch for the signs to the Fairgrounds on the right