Reading Notes: Bengali Folktales Part B

Characters
- Sankchinni
- a Brahman



Plot
- the ghost Sankchinni lives near an embankment where a Brahman lives
- Sankchinni attacks the Brahman's wife and chokes her until she is almost dead
- Sankchinni puts on the clothes of the woman and returns to the house pretending to be her
- the mother becomes suspicious of the new change in her daughter in law
- an exorcist is sent to the house to remove the ghost
- they determine it is a ghost by burning turmeric
- the exorcist removes the ghost from the woman's body and retrieves her from the tree

The Ghost by the River by Warwick Goble

Bibliography: A Ghostly Wife by Rev. Lal Behari Day