[ THE VAMPIRE’S EIGHTH STORY — Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S NINTH STORY — Showing That a Man’s Wife Belongs Not to His Body but to His Head. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S TENTH STORY [168] — Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens. ]
[ THE VAMPIRE’S ELEVENTH STORY — Which Puzzles Raja Vikram. ]
PREFACE
The Baital-Pachisi, or Twenty-five Tales of a Baital is the history of a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies. It is an old, and thoroughly Hindu, Legend composed in Sanskrit, and is the germ which culminated in the Arabian Nights, and which inspired the “Golden Ass” of Apuleius, Boccacio’s “Decamerone,” the “Pentamerone,” and all that class of facetious fictitious literature.