Week 7 Reading Diary B: Bengali Folktales

Bangali Folktales 

• There was a wife of a Brahman that was walking to a tank. She accidentally brushed up against a ghost and it angered it. 
• The ghost grabbed the wife and put her into the trunk of a tree. The she-ghost then put on the cloths of the wife and went back to the home of the Brahman and mother. 
• After some time the Mother noticed that her-daughter in law was not acting the same as before (but better actually). This caught the attention of the family them she began to do things that were not human. 
• They called and exorcist and make the ghost tell the family where the wife really was located. They retrieved her and made the ghost not bother the family again. 
• My favorite part about this story is when the exorcist man began to beat the ghost with his show. 
• The Story of a Brahmadaitya is a quite interesting read
• The main plot of the story is that a poor man is desperatly trying to survive and he takes on the impossible task that has the potential to get him killed. On his way, a Brahmadaitya helps him and provides the Brahman with 3 requests that make him rich!, In the end, due to the Ghost helping out the once poor man he " sent to heaven.
• The story is a "Feel-" one like most of the stories in this section. I like how the poor man gets rewarded for his bravery and selfishness. I will think about writing my storyteling post over this story. 
• The Story about the Rubies is another feel good story. (I like all these stories within the unit. They have nice and happy endings). 
• I thought that toward the end of the story when the young man went to the palace in the whirlpool that he would get in some kind of trouble for taking the rubies, but I guess not. Also at the end when he became a husband to a second wife, I wonder why he didn't go back to the goddess. 

Ruby 

Source: Wikipedia