THE CONCORDANCE
desert
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.PalisA desert predator of Persian travel literature and later folkloristic compilations, the palis or pā-līs (“foot-licker”) drains sleeping travellers by licking the soles of the feet. Sources do not agree on a body; they agree on the habit and on a famous muleteers’ trick.
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