A Ghostly Wife: This is a story of a female ghost whom looks
like a stereotypical white ghost. I really enjoy ghost stories so this story
really caught my attention. My favorite character in this story was the ghost.
I liked that it also had a happy ending, because ghost stories so often have
bad endings.
A Story of Brahmadaitya: A Brahmadaitya is the ghost of
a Brahman who dies unmarried. There was a certain tree in the outskirts of the
village that was haunted, and it was hard to get anyone to go to the tree. The
laird said that if someone would go cut a branch of the tree in the night, he
would reward him or her with land. The ghosts cut the branch off for the man
because the Brahmadaitya told them to. I liked that the Brahmadaitya kept
helping the man in this story. It was a very happy story where the enemy,
actually became the friend of the story and made a poor man wealthy.
The Origin of Rubies: There were four children, but the
youngest always got everything. This made the other boys jealous. This youngest
boy became very spoiled and never listened to anyone, even his mother. I really
didn’t like the boy in this story because of that. He was a very rude child and
very ungrateful of the things he got. I also didn’t like the queen because she
picked favorites of her children.
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| Photo of a ruby. Web Source: Wikipedia |
The Ghost who was Afraid of being Bagged: This is about a
man that was told by his wife he wasn’t rich enough to be married to her. He
set off and said he would never come back until he had enough money. He found a
way to trick two ghosts into getting money and food for him. He told them that
if they didn’t do it, he would bag them. This was a very smart man and because
of it became very rich.
The Bald Wife: The story is about a man with two wives, one
of which he loved more than the other. One of the wives had lice so the other
shaved her hair off. He eventually began to love the other one more. I didn’t
like this story all that much. I’ve realized in mythology there are a lot of
stories about polygamy and death.
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