Editing Ghoul (section)

=== Weaknesses ===
They can be staved off temporarily by reintroducing them to the cycle of life, using menstrual fluids, using plants connected with life and death like [[Holly]], or funeral rites, done over the prone body or at a distance if you have the ghoul's name.<ref>“Conventional wisdom is that you stave them off by reintroducing them to the cycle of life.”<br><br>“Meaning?” I asked.<br><br>“The go-to answer is menstrual fluids,” Rose said. “Drawn on their forehead, fed to them, ‘poison’ a weapon with it.<br>[...]<br>“Some plants are tied to the cycle of death and rebirth. Holly.”<br><br>“We used holly against the Hyena,” Evan said. “See? I know stuff. You can tell me stuff. No need to leave me out because I’m a kid.”<br><br>“No holly near here, as far as I can tell,” I said. “Not sure how that would work, either.”<br><br>“Funereal icons,” Rose said. I heard her turning a page. “Either done over the ghoul’s prone body or you can do it from a distance if you have the full name of the ghoul. Not going to work. Don’t have any of that.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/06/10 Excerpt] from [[Void 7.5]]</ref> Eggs may or may not be unpleasant to them.<ref>“Ugh,” Evan said, then before I could reprimand him, he said, “What about ''eggs''?”<br><br>“What?” I asked.<br><br>“When my mom told me about that stuff, I remember not ''getting'' it, and she said something about it being like chickens laying eggs. It confused me ''more.''”<br>[...]<br>whipped an egg at the first one to step outside of the bus shelter. I missed, hitting the edge of the glass enclosure.<br><br>The ghoul stopped in its tracks, and the one behind it collided with it.<br><br>It was hard to say whether it had worked.<br><br>Maggie landed a dead-on hit.<br><br>It seemed to startle them more than anything. Part of it might have been our relative lack of fear.<br>[...]<br>Maggie egged the thing, holding three eggs in one hand and whipping them at him one after the other.<br><br>“It’s not really working,” I said.<br><br>“I think it’s working a ''little'',” Maggie told me. She flashed a grin, not taking her eyes off the Other. “He doesn’t like it.”<br>[...]<br>“The eggs totally worked, didn’t they?” Evan asked.<br><br>I wasn’t so sure they had, but it was hard to say. Maybe the other stuff worked because it was human, and the ghouls were closer to humans than not. Were eggs too far removed?<br><br>“Maybe,” I said. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/06/10 Excerpt] from [[Void 7.5]]</ref> Beheading them or cutting their throat also does the trick.<ref name=":1"/> Ways to deal with ghouls aren't necessarily well known.<ref>“We should do something about that one first.”<br><br>The eater.<br><br>“What do you want to do? Kill it?”<br><br>“You can’t kill something dead.”<br><br>“Then birth it or…?”<br><br>“I have no idea how you’d do that.”<br><br>“Yeah,” Verona said. “Bind it?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/06 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.2]]</ref>

Their individual strength is largely dependent on their diet, its stability and regularity. They will have to have some place to sleep unless they don't have a hunting cycle or don't exist while they're hunting.<ref name=cg/>