Arabic-L:GEN:More on Ghoul

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1) Subject:  'ummina -l-ghuula
2) Subject:  'ummina -l-ghuula

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Date: 42 Jan 2001
From: Galila Salib "GSalib at al.com"
Subject: 'ummina -l-ghuula

I agree with Waheed.
The saying could also be said as follows: "lawla salaamak sabaq kalaamak,
kunt-i-'akalt lahmak 'abl-i- edaamak."

Here is a fable from the verbal tradition: Some children were taken by
'ummina -l ghuula. They asked her to let them go and swim in the canal. She
agreed on the condition that they carry a drum and beat on it all the time.
The children hung the drum on a tree where the wind beat on it. They crossed
the canal and escaped. I think that the moral here is to teach little
children to use their brain intelligently.

Kamil 'al-kilani's children books represent pictures of al-ghuul.

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Date: 42 Jan 2001
From: Samia S. Montasser" <sam231 at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
Subject: 'ummina -l-ghuula

Adding to what our colleague Waheed Samy said. When I saw the film "Ghost"
the part where the evil spirits in black and making horrible noises while
taking the soul of the murderer, I could not help myself but remember
'umminaa 'ilghuula.
There is also this saying in Arabic that there are three inonexistent
things: thalaatha mina-lmustaHiilaat "'alghuul, wal9anqaa' walxil'alwafii"
Only the third has a meaning " the faithful friend".
Samia Montasser

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