Two tales of the spirit world from Bengal. A Brahman's wife comes home from her bath strangely changed, stretching her arm clear across the room and thrusting her foot into the oven fire, and only an exorcist's burnt turmeric can prove who she really is. And a starving Brahman who dares to cut a branch from a haunted tree finds an unexpected friend in the Brahmadaitya, the spirit who dwells in it, who sets a hundred ghosts to work to reap his harvest in a single night.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day (1883), public domain; told in a modern in-house rendering.
Chapters:
00:00 A Ghostly Wife
04:51 The Story of a Brahmadaitya
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