: Eblis Stone
: Amazing what you can find when randomly flipping through
: the dictionary. Eblis is a muslim devil I think.
He's *the* Muslim Devil. The equivalent of Satan. Eblis or Iblis refused to bow before Adam and got cast down to Hell for it. Certain Mideastern groups, including some of the Kurds, worship him, though they aren't "Satanists" in the Western sense.
: Trow
: Well, Trow is probably derived from troll and trolls were
: supposed to turn to stone when the sun hit them.
The Myth 2 Handbook tells us that "trow" is actually a Middle-English spelling of "troll".
: Ghol
: Probably from "ghoul" who were supposed to be
: desacrators (bad spelling) of graves.
In Arabian mythology they were a type of demon; in addition to grave-robbing, they haunted lonely roads in human form, trying to lure away and eat human travellers. In the works of Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, they were doglike humanoids who worshipped a god of death and ate the dead as part of their religious rites. At present the term usually refers to ordinary humans (ordinary in their form and abilities and so on; obviously not ordinary in their habits) who dig up and eat corpses.
--SiliconDream
