THE CONCORDANCE
deception
2 records across 2 traditions carry this current.
Africa & the Middle East · 2
GhūlA shape-changing, dangerous figure of Arabic folklore, often associated in translated accounts with wilderness, graveyards, and deception.KishiIn Ambundu storytelling recorded in Ki-Mbundu, a kishi (plural makishi) is a man-eating being who courts, abducts, and feeds. Later popular retellings add a human face hiding a hyena’s jaws; Chatelain’s 1894 texts emphasise tangled hair, hunger, and dangerous intimacy.
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