So I've always read that legends of ghouls had them eating dead flesh. Apparently, the older pre-Islamic versions of them preferred live people to attack and eat, but they'd eat a corpse if needed. They had hooves on their back feet and were sometimes hairy (animal shapeshifting).
But European legends have the eating of the dead thing and never living probably.
Details here:
https://mythology.net/monsters/ghoul/
And this is a cool drawing from there:
Ancient ghouls in Persia via wikipedia, see the hooves and hair. Funny how they have the curved teeth thing... looks so Indian/Hindu?/Buddhist?, but I guess that was a Persian thing, too:
Speaking of Hindu:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_in_Hindu_mythology#Arthropods
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