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Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance

Por: Colaborador(es): Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2000Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
Tema(s): Clasificación LoC:
  • GR
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  • Produced by Sara Vazirian and David Widger
Resumen: "Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance" is a collection of tales originally written in Sanskrit, with recensions dating to the 11th century. The work follows legendary King Vikramāditya as he attempts to capture a vetala—a vampire spirit inhabiting dead bodies and hanging from a tree. Each time the king seizes the creature, it tells a story ending with a riddle. If Vikrama answers correctly, the vampire escapes back to its tree, forcing him to start over. Through twenty-five attempts, this cycle reveals both entertainment and danger, as a dark plot gradually unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetala_Panchavimshati

Uniform Title: Vetalapañcavimsati. Hindi version (Baitala-pacisi). English

Release date is 2000-11-01

Produced by Sara Vazirian and David Widger

"Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance" is a collection of tales originally written in Sanskrit, with recensions dating to the 11th century. The work follows legendary King Vikramāditya as he attempts to capture a vetala—a vampire spirit inhabiting dead bodies and hanging from a tree. Each time the king seizes the creature, it tells a story ending with a riddle. If Vikrama answers correctly, the vampire escapes back to its tree, forcing him to start over. Through twenty-five attempts, this cycle reveals both entertainment and danger, as a dark plot gradually unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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