A Ghostly Wife:
Is this story the same guy for the previous story? It has the same ghost theme, the man is a brahman, and he lives with both his wife and mother... Anyways, if so, what an unfortunate couple. It's a good thing that the mother started to notice differences and that she chose to not say anything to the ghost but to confirm her suspicions with her son in order to not set off the supernatural.
The Origin of Rubies:
Man, parents who spoil one child and disregard the rest don't realize the harm. Not only does the spoiled child grow up with serious behavior problems that have now grown pretty much permanent, but the other children and that child will not be able to get along. Anyways, same idea for this story. I'm anticipating the siblings to come into play somewhere. I wonder if the king of the great land is doing that to his daughter. Anyways, I wonder if the queen and her son have thought about going home yet... The other sons must be wondering where they are.
The Origin of Rubies (ctd):
So this is an interesting ending - I did not see it coming. I expected the prince to die searching for rubies or to get detained while getting more rubies but no, he gets two beautiful women as wives? What in the world! I definitely did not expect that. Anyways, it's definitely a creative ending - I did not see that happening. Sort of gross imagery with the whole head separate from the body and the blood being the rubies - blah!
The Ghost who was afraid of being Bagged:
This story starts off sad but gets very interesting at the end. In the beginning, I was very much saddened by the fact that the wife did not support the husband but abused him physically, verbally, and emotionally. I admire the husband, however, for not leaving her altogether on the spot but doing some self-examination and realizing that he probably could/should support his wife better. Kudos to the husband for roping two ghosts in to help him get rich. That was pretty great!
A medieval ghost by Gallowglass
Source: Wikipedia
I was very intrigued that you picked Folktales of Bengal. I also picked this unit for my reading this week. I thought that the ghost stories were very interesting, and actually kind of odd. It was very nice to see your take on these stories. I totally thought the same thing about the story about the ghostly wife. It was almost exactly like one of the other stories. It's so crazy how they can be so similar.
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