What Is The Different Between A ghoul And A Zombie

[Tim18]

Hey, I was just wondering what is the difference is between a ghoul, and a zombie.

[Miles]

This might be of some help: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...946AAYuith

[Tim18]

Thank you Miles, for that helpful link.

[Beaux]

Hey, I was just wondering what is the difference is between a ghoul, and a zombie.

Well...for starters, ghouls just want to have fun...

Sry. Couldn't help meh self......

[Chase]

A ghoul would describe me best by those who lack a more polysyllabic vocabulary. A zombie would describe my general behavior during the Fall & Spring semesters.

[Pix]

The Ghoul

The gruesome ghoul, the grizzly ghoul,
Without the slightest noise,
Waits patiently beside the school
To feast on girls and boys.

He lunges fiercely through the air
As they come out to play,
Then grabs a couple by the hair
And drags them far away.

He cracks their bones, and snaps their backs,
And squeezes out their lungs.
He chews their thumbs like candy snacks,
And pulls apart their tongues.

He slices their stomachs and bites their hearts and
Tears their flesh to shreds.
He swallows their toes like toasted tarts,
And gobbles down their heads.

Fingers, elbows, hands and knees,
And arms and legs and feet.
He eats them with delight and ease,
For every part's a treat.

And when the gruesome, grizzly ghoul
Has nothing left to chew,
He hurries to another school,
And waits, perhaps, for you.

--Jack Prelutsky, the Ghoul, from Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep

The Zombie

Upon your bed you sleep in pain,
For nightmares swirl within your brain.
You waken with a fearful start
As horror grips your heart.
You sense a presence standing there,
And all at once it meets your stare,
A zombie waits within your room,
And with it dwells your doom.

And you shiver, and you scream!
And you hope it's all a dream as the Zombie nears your bed.

The Zombie, spawn of voodoo's charms,
Has come to take you in its arms.
It longs to crush, it yearns to clutch,
And lethal is its touch.
It does not live, yet is not dead.
Two sockets burn within its head.
It does not see, it does not hear,
It does not heed you fear.

And you shiver, and you scream!
And you hope it's all a dream as the Zombie nears your bed.

Closer, Closer to your bed,
Closer comes this thing undead,
It nears you at a steady pace,
And oh, its awful face.
Closer, Closer, Closer still
The Zombie nears with icy will.
Its face remains expressionless,
As you feel its cold caress.

And you shiver, and you scream!
And you hope it's all a dream as the Zombie nears your bed.

Jack Prelutsky, the Zombie, from The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep

[Dan1980]

I think Ghouls are Ghosts and Zombies are the living dead.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Zombie is a reanimated corpse.

A ghoul is one who has morbid tendencies, thus a grave robber can be a ghoul. It can also be defined as an 'malevolent' spirit that feeds on dead bodies.

Zombies prefer living bodies, Ghouls (in the monster sense) prefer dead bodies.

Thus the Syfy Channels can make their B-Rated movie Zombies Vs Ghouls and have them hunting and eating each other.

[kidchameleon]

I've seen a few things stating that a zombie is a corpse revived on purpose (i.e- by a Voodoo practitioner, or "necromancer"), but a ghoul is a corpse that rose by itself due to being buried in unconsecrated ground.

In general zombies were usually relegated mostly to voodoo magick and sorcery. The idea of the "living dead" used to be mostly synonymous with vampires, or cultural equivalents - the Romero-esque zombie is purely a work of movie-fiction with no basis in mythology or urban myth; we see it so much only because the movies are cheap to make, but also profitable

[Pix]

How could I forget this song? It's classic movie zombie horror but they call them ghouls (which seems more accurate to someone into folklore myself)...