{"id":4361,"date":"2018-10-24T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2018-10-24T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:21:38","slug":"is-name-redacted-a-goblin-or-a-ghoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/24\/is-name-redacted-a-goblin-or-a-ghoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Is [name redacted] a Goblin or a Ghoul?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4347\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw102418-7b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4347\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw102418-7b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Is [name redacted] a Goblin or a Ghoul?\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw102418-7b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw102418-7b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw102418-7b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw102418-7b.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is [name redacted] a Goblin or a Ghoul?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It depends. Are they a) a malevolent, demonic, small ugly creature who causes harm and mischief, or are they b) an undead being who frequents graveyards and eats human flesh? (a = goblin, b=ghoul). We have the Greeks to thank for goblins (&#8220;kobalus&#8221; meant &#8220;knave&#8221; or &#8220;rogue&#8221;) and the Arabs to thank for ghouls. Goblins have populated the European imagination for at least a millenium; ghouls are a more recent addition that came with the translation of 1,001 Nights into French in the 19th Century.\u00a0 For more spooky etymologies, see the Oxford English Dictionary (BC only):\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-oxford-english\">bit.ly\/BC-oxford-english<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It depends. Are they a) a malevolent, demonic, small ugly creature who causes harm and mischief, or are they b) an undead being who frequents graveyards and eats human flesh? (a = goblin, b=ghoul). We have the Greeks to thank for goblins (&#8220;kobalus&#8221; meant &#8220;knave&#8221; or &#8220;rogue&#8221;) and the Arabs to thank for ghouls. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/24\/is-name-redacted-a-goblin-or-a-ghoul\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is [name redacted] a Goblin or a Ghoul?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}