The Boy Whom Seven Mothers Suckled
A king's seven queens are blinded and thrown into a pit by a Rakshasi queen.
Lal Behari Day was a Bengali writer and folklorist whose stories draw on the tales, customs, and everyday life of Bengal. Here you can read his stories, including “The Match-Making Jackal” and “Phakir Chand,” or listen to them read aloud; every story is free to read or listen to.
The Evil Eye of Sani
Sani, the god of bad luck, and Lakshmi, the goddess of good luck, quarrel over which of them is greater, and ask the wise and wealthy Sribatsa to decide.
The Match-Making Jackal
A cunning jackal decides to get a poor weaver married to a king's daughter, and somehow pulls it off.
The Indigent Brahman
A poor Brahman, sent by his wife to beg, serves the goddess Durga, and she gives him a pot that fills itself with sweets.
The Story of Prince Sobur
A merchant asks his seven daughters whose good fortune feeds them.
The Story of Swet-Basanta
Two loving brothers, the princes Swet and Basanta, are driven out of the palace by their cruel stepmother.
Life's Secret
A king's younger queen gives birth to a beautiful son, but the jealous elder queen, secretly a Rakshasi, wants him dead.
The Field of Bones
A prince and his three friends set out to see the world. Deep in a forest they come to a city where everyone has turned to bones, and to a princess guarded by a demon.
The Boy with the Moon on His Forehead
A king with six childless queens marries a poor woman's beautiful daughter, who promises him twins: a boy with the moon on his forehead and a girl with a star on her…
The Two Thieves and Their Sons
Two famous thieves try to go straight, fail, and set out to prove which of them is the cleverer.
The Story of the Rakshasas
A beautiful Rakshasi in disguise becomes a king's new queen and begins to eat his kingdom from inside.
Bengal Ghost Stories
Five ghost stories from Bengal: the ghost of a Brahman who helps a poor man, the Brahman who wished to be perfect, a ghost who takes a man's wife's shape, a…
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