Folk-Tales of Bengal by the Rev. Lal Behari Day, with illustrations by Warwick Goble (1912)
Image from the UnTextbook of the Brahman returning: UnTextbook
- Scraped together money for a wife, by begging
- Unable to have enough money to take care of mother and wife
- Gave wife to mother as he set off to make money
- Ghost took the form of the Brahman, and lived his life with his wife and mother
- Returned, Ghost Brahman drove the real Brahman away
- Brahman went to king everyday in hopes of answers
- Needed neat- heard king to give him answers
- Test, if could enter a phial (Vial) then whoever did it could have the wife, mother, and household
- Ghost Brahman tuned himself into a small insect and crawled into the vial
- Neat- heard king told him to throw the vial in the ocea
- Real Brahman lived happily ever after with his wife and had children
The story of the Brahman is an interesting one because the story is about a a poor Brahman who desires for the life of others. He needs income in order to have a wife, and once her raises enough becomes married. However, money is still an issue, so in order to provide, he sets off for years to have enough. In the time he's gone, a ghost Brahman takes his life while he's gone and fills his roll.
Bengal: The Boy whom Seven Mothers Suckled
Folk-Tales of Bengal by the Rev. Lal Behari Day, with illustrations by Warwick Goble (1912)
Folk-Tales of Bengal by the Rev. Lal Behari Day, with illustrations by Warwick Goble (1912)
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- King had 7 queens, but we all barren
- In order to bare children, king had to take 7 mangoes from this tree and give them to the queens in order to be able to have children
- He did so, they were all with child
- Saw woman, fell in love, married her, but she was a Rakshasi
- The king loved her most, she requested that each of the 7 queens be blind and killed
- The king did so, but the chief minister hid the queens away in a cave
- Oldest queen gave birth, but were other 6 were hungry, killed baby and ate it for food
- All gave birth and did the same expect the 7th queen, she decided to nurse
- Other women wanted their portion of the baby, but understood why she did it, all nursed the 7th baby born
- Rakshasi wife was up to mischief and unsatisfied, over time ate the kings servants, family, horses, etc.
- Boy became older and worked for king
- Queen only ate victims at night, boy left before this could occur
- Went to Rakshasi land because queen grew sick, and asked for a certain mellon
- Received mellon and took bird which had mother of youth in it
- As boy destroyed bird limb by limb, same would happen to who was eating all the men of the king
- Rakshasi queen's limbs became the same of the bird
- 7 queens eye sight was restored
- All lived happily together
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