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Parchment-style illustration of woodcutter trapping the soul-bird, from a Jordanian Ghoula folktale.

The Ghoula and the Woodcutter: Jordanian Desert Folktale

Deep in the windswept highlands of Jordan, where the Badia desert blends into rugged forests, people whispered of a creature older than memory itself, the Ghoula. She was a monstrous female ogre who prowled the lonely paths, hiding among twisted acacia trees and rocky ravines. Travelers who wandered too far from the villages often vanished, their last echoes carried away

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