Reading Notes: Week 5 The Ghost Brahman

The Ghost Brahman:

• Characters: The brahman, his mother, his wife, the ghost, a king, neat-herd king
• The story begin by a brahman scraping enough money together to get married. Once married, the brahman realizes that he does not have enough money to support his wife and mother, so he decides to journey seeking money, and so he does. While he is gone, a ghost appears, with the exact appearance of the brahman and takes over his life. For years, he fooled the people. One day when the brahman returned home from his travels, he find the ghost and is in shock and to his dismay, no one believes him. he brahman is then cast out. The brahman then visited the king everyday begging him to return his life, but everyday he was disappointed. Everyday the brahman passed by the same group of cowboys and one day the neat-herd king stopped him and asked him why he wept daily. When the brahman told the neat-herd king of his problem, he say through and believed him, he then instructed the brahman to get permission from the king for him to decide his case, and so he did. To prove who the ghost was, the neat-herd king brought a narrow necked phile and said whomever can enter this phile is the rightful owner, of course the human could not enter, so when the ghost enter, the neat-herd king trapped the ghost, returning the brahman his home, wife, and mother. My idea for changing this story is to either tell it from the perspective of the wife, mother or the neat-herd king. I think changing the perspective would give a cool twist to the story, especially if it is in the perspective of the wife or mother. I would make them oblivious, but maybe make them question the brahman more instead of believing the ghost right away.
  
• (The ghost returning as the brahman soon after he left: Web Source)
• Bibliography: Folk-Tales of Bengal: The Ghost Brahman by Rev. Lal Behari Day. Web Source.