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Vetala
character
📜Canonical📂character🎬2 episodes
Summary
A supernatural entity in Indian mythology that inhabits corpses and possesses the ability to speak, move with unnatural speed, and engage in complex dialogue. Known for testing human resolve through storytelling and paradoxical questions
Episodes (2)
A demon's warning and the ruby-filled fruits
A demon warns King Vikram of a rival ascetic who poses a mortal threat, but the ascetic Shantil's daily gifts of seemingly ordinary fruits are revealed to contain priceless rubies worth entire kingdoms.
Nightmare cremation ground and the silent companion
Psyche recounts the opening of the Vikram and Vetala mythology, where King Vikram retrieves a corpse from a haunted cremation ground and discovers it is inhabited by a shape-shifting spirit called a Vetala who agrees to accompany him on one condition: absolute silence.
At a Glance
🎬Episodes2
Classification
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