Folk Tales of India — Part 6 of 81 (The Evil Eye of Sani)
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Sani, the god of ill luck, and Lakshmi, the goddess of good luck, fall out in heaven over which of them ranks higher — and they choose the wise Sribatsa to judge. His answer, given with a gold stool and a silver one, wins him Lakshmi's friendship and three years of Sani's evil eye: a lost fortune, a miraculous cow whose dung is gold, a wife carried off by boatmen, and luck that turns, as Lakshmi promised, at the very end.
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day (1883), public domain; told in a modern in-house rendering.
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