TY  - BOOK
AU  - Platts,John T.
AU  - Lallu Lal
AU  - Vila,Mazhar Ali Khan,active 1805
AU  - Forbes,Duncan
TI  - The Baitâl Pachchisi; Or, The Twenty-Five Tales of a Sprite: Translated From the Hindi Text of Dr. Duncan Forbes
AV  - GR 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Tales -- India
KW  - Vampires -- India -- Folklore
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetala_Panchavimshati; Release date is 2017-05-10; Produced by David Widger from page images generously
provided by the Internet Archive; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Baitâl Pachchisi; Or, The Twenty-Five Tales of a Sprite" by John T. Platts et al. is a collection of tales originally written in Sanskrit, with its oldest recension found in an 11th-century compilation. Legendary King Vikramāditya must capture a sprite who inhabits dead bodies and hangs from a tree. Each time the king seizes the creature, it tells a story ending with a riddle. If Vikrama answers correctly, the sprite escapes; if he stays silent knowing the answer, his head will shatter. This cycle repeats twenty-four times before a final revelation changes everything. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54697
ER  -