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[FN#96] The Ghulah (fem. of Ghul) is the Heb. Lilith or Lilis;

the classical Lamia; the Hindu Yogini and Dakini; the Chaldean

Utug and Gigim (desert-demons) as opposed to the Mas (hill-demon)

and Telal (who steal into towns); the Ogress of our tales and the

Ba{l}a yaga {Баба Яга} (Granny-witch) of Russian folk-lore.

Etymologically "Ghul" is a calamity, a panic fear; and the

monster is evidently the embodied horror of the grave and the

graveyard.

[FN#97] Arab. "Shabb" (Lat. juvenis) between puberty and forty or

according to some fifty; when the patient becomes a "Rajul

ikhtiyar" (man of free will) politely termed, and then a Shaykh

or Shaybah (grey-beard, oldster).

[FN#98] Some proverbial name now forgotten. Torrens (p. 48)

translates it "the giglot" (Fortune?) but "cannot discover the

drift."

[FN#99] Arab. "Ihtizaz," that natural and instinctive movement

caused by good news suddenly given, etc.