Three shorter tales. The first tells how rubies came out of the sea, from a palace beneath a whirlpool where a lady lies in a trance deeper than sleep beside the god Siva. The second follows the cleverest match-maker in Bengal — a jackal, who chews betel-leaves like a lord and marries a poor weaver to a king's daughter. The third is the barber who frightened a ghost with nothing but a looking-glass, and got a granary of gold for his wit.
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 The Origin of Rubies 09:01 The Match-making Jackal 24:09 The Ghost who was Afraid of being Bagged
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