Talk:Ghoul/@comment-173.209.212.196-20141203232645/@comment-25035274-20150911134615

While the question of the Jiang Shi is no longer a question at all, it's still worth noting that if you look at the earliest representations of vampires, and then look at the progenitor of the modern zombie (the French revenant), there's really not much difference. Both ate flesh and both drank blood.

The two have only really become truly separate creatures in the last couple hundred years, especially during the latter half of the 19th and then the 20th century.