- Characters: Ghost, Brahman, Brahman's Wife, Brahman's Mother, Ojha
- This story was very similar to the Ghost brahman story I chose in reading A. I really like ghost stories and thought this would be a nice mix up from the stories I have been previously doing. In this story, the brahman's wife is walking down to the river, when she passes the tree the ghost lives by, she accidentally touches her. The ghost then gets mad, injuries the brahman's wife and takes her clothes to takeover her life. Unlike the ghost brahman story, the brahman and the mother actually begin to realize on their own that the brahman's wife is acting unusual. Once they observe her performing unusual tasks they begin to suspect her true identity and they decide to bring in an Ojha, an exorcist, to see. He confirms and they end up finding the wife and they live happily ever after. Changing this story to the wife's perspective would be really cool. That way you can feel her pain and sorrow and when the happy ending occurs it will make the audience feel more joy, since we have witnessed first hand the wife's troubles. I want to change the story and make the wife gain up the strength to go regain her life. I think if the wife were to drop subtle hints, or make the husband and mother observe the ghost's unusual behaviors it would add a sneaky element to the story. I may eve change the end to be an unhappy ending, but I have not decided yet.
- Bibliography: Folk-Tales of Bengal: A Ghostly Wife by Rev. Lal Behari Day. Web Source.
(Picture of the ghost standing by the tree and the wife about to accidentally brush against her: Websource)
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